Positioning device for the halves of slaughtered animal bodies for optical capture in the cleaving plane

A positioning device for halves of slaughter animal bodies, suspended on hooks for a parallel alignment of a cleaving plane with respect to a capture plane of a camera for a subsequent evaluation and classification by an optical image processing, comprising at least two guide elements including an upper guide element and a lower guide element disposed substantially horizontally on vertical supports vertically over one another, with a sufficient spaced disposition, outside a relevant capture region facing the camera;

• and a rear guide element is disposed in a moveable manner and in a region of a capture position of the slaughtered half has rollers as pressure elements.