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APPARATUS FOR WASHING EASILY DAMAGED ARTICLES, SUCH AS EGGS, COMPRISING CONVEYOR MEANS FOR MOVING ARTICLES TO BE WASHED PAST A WASHING STATION IN SIDE-BY-SIDE ROWS, AND STRUCTURE AT SAID WASHING STATION FOR SCRUBBING SAID ARTICLES; SAID SCRUBBING STRUCTURE COMPRISING AN ELONGATED CARRIER MOUNTED FOR VERTICAL RECIPROCATION ABOVE SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, SAID CARRIER COMPRISING PLATE STRUCTURE HAVING A MULTIPLICITY OF APERTURES EXTENDING THERETHROUGH ABOVE SAID CONVEYOR MEANS, ARTICLE SCRUBBING MEANS DEPENDING FROM THE UNDERSIDE OF SAID PLATE STRUCTURE OF SAID CARRIER SO THAT SAID SCRUBBING MEANS IS REPEATEDLY ENGAGED WITH SAID ARTICLES ON SAID CONVEYOR MEANS AT SAID STATION AS SAID CARRIER RECIPROCATES VERTICALLY, MEANS FOR EFFECTING VERTICAL RECIPROCATION OF SAID CARRIER, AND MEANS FOR SUPPLYING WASHING FLUID TO THE UPPERSIDE OF SAID PLATE STRUCTURE FOR APPLICATION BY SAID DEPENDING SCRUBBING MEANS DIRECTLY ONTO ARTICLES ON SAID CONVEYOR MEANS BENEATH SAID PLATE STRUCTURE; SAID SCRUBBING MEANS COMPRISING A MULTIPLICITY OF CLOSELY ARRANGED FLEXIBLE BRUSH BRISTLE TUFTS DEPENDING FROM SAID PLATE STRUCTURE, SAID BRISTLE TUFTS BEING GENERALLY ALINGED WITH APERTURES THROUGH SAID PLATE STRUCTURE SO THAT WASHING FLUID SUPPLIED TO SAID PLATE STRUCTURE MAY PASS THROUGH SUCH APERTURES INTO CONTACT WITH SAID BRISTLE TUFTS FOR DIRECT APPLICATION THEREBY TO THE ARTICLES BEING SCRUBBED, SAID BRISTLE TUFTS BEING ARRANGED IN LONGITUDINAL SERIES ALONG SAID PLATE STRUCTURE, THE TUFTS IN EACH OF SAID SERIES BEING OF VARYING LENGTHS AND BEING ARRANGED ON SAID PLATE STRUCTURE SO THAT THE DEPENDING ENDS OF THE TUFTS OF EACH SERIES DEFINE A CONCAVE CONFIGURATION WHICH GENERALLY CONFORMS TO THE CONTOUR OF THE ARTICLES BEING SCRUBBED BY SAID APPARATUS.