To simplify the mechanism of a device for cooling cylindrical containers packed with pasty food while rotating the containers thus enabling a low cost production of the device.

Cylindrical containers 7 have their lower side surfaces supported by two rotary bars 13 with their axes of cylinders extending in a transfer direction. By rotating these rotary bars 13 about longitudinal axes, the cylindrical containers 7 are rotated about an axes of cylinders. Transfer guides 15 mounted on a transfer conveyer 11 push the rear portions of the cylindrical containers 7 in a transferring direction between two rotary bars 13 so as to transfer the cylindrical containers 7.