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1. A device for washing containers for transporting live poultry, wherein said containers consist of drawer-like cages having a quadrangular shape with a bottom wall, side walls and an open top, the device comprising:
a drum rotatable around a horizontal axis and having an inlet and an outlet between which supports extend substantially parallel to an axis of the drum, said supports mutually spaced-apart angularly and configured to temporarily engage the drawer-like cages, driving means for intermittently rotating the rotatable drum by angular steps corresponding to an angular spacing between said supports, means for introducing and extracting said drawer-like cages relative to said rotatable drum in synchronism with the intermittent rotation thereof, and spraying means of the drawer-like cages with a washing liquid during the angular motion thereof between the inlet and the outlet of the rotatable drum. |
