To enable easily performing light source replacement and further, to enable effectively cleaning the whole front glass plate.

This box type lighting equipment front glass cleaning device is freely attachably and detachably or openably and closably installed on the front surface side of a box type case, and also is fitted to box type lighting equipment provided with a rectangular glass plate G where light of a light source in the case can penetrates and is constituted so that the glass plate G is wiped away by a wiper. The device has a wiper supporting body 3 supporting the wiper W on the one end side thereof and also linearly reciprocating along one side of the glass plate G, and a transfer mechanism 1 for giving linearly reciprocating motion to the wiper supporting body 3 based on the output of a rotary driving mechanism H for outputting the rotation in the fixed direction.