Assembly for feeding/picking up containers for washing machines and washing machine

An assembly for feeding/picking up containers for washing machines comprising an external feeding station provided with a delivery area, an internal washing station, and an external output station, the assembly further comprising at least one support which can move by the action of respective actuators between at least one first configuration of alignment with a respective external station and at least one second configuration of alignment with said internal washing station, and which is provided with a plurality of grip clamps, each clamp being constituted by a pair of mutually opposite jaws the internal faces of which are substantially concave and contoured, there being interposed between said jaws an elastic element for forcing in mutual abutment the internal faces of said jaws, corresponding to the closing of the grip clamp, said jaws being pivoted on a common translatable bar, the translation of said bar generating the rotation with respect to its pivoting point of all the jaws with respect to the corresponding jaws, with consequent simultaneous opening of all the clamps, the elastic element of each clamp elastically forcing closed the respective clamp autonomously and independently of the others.