Appliance for wet cleaning adhering particles from filter cartridges (4) in process units of the type including fluidised-bed apparatuses, spray driers, moving-bed installations and combinations of such units, by treatment with cleaning fluid which is introduced by a ring of nozzle orifices (10) within the process unit and matched to the cross-sectional geometry of the filter cartridges (4) and fed via a delivery, comprising adjusting members for controlling all material streams, characterized in that the nozzle orifices (10) positioned in the form of a ring are directed towards a filter casing (5) at an angle of inclination .alpha. and are arranged in an exhaust-gas space (7), which a sealing point (6) seals off hermetically from a head of a reaction space (3), and a lifting device (17) for executing up-and-down movement of the filter cartridge (4) and an actuable filter-cartridge bottom outlet (18), said filter cartridge (4) being suspended on a linkage (19) of the lifting device (17).