Abstract: In can manufacturing apparatus there is provided an overhead magnetic conveyor for transferring cans from a conveyor upon which they are coated to a conveyor upon which the cans are dried. To remove excess coating material which tends to form a bead around the lowermost edge of a can, a bath of coating material solvent is disposed adjacent to the transfer conveyor and has within it an endless belt conveyor to which cans on the overhead conveyor are caused to fall and from which those cans are subsequently returned to an overhead conveyor. The upper, can carrying course of the endless belt conveyor is disposed at a predetermined depth below the surface of solvent within the bath so that excess material accumulating on the lower portions of the cans in the coating region is removed prior to entry of the cans into the drying oven.

Abstract: A cleaning or treating machine, particularly but not necessarily exclusively for cleaning newly formed aluminum beverage cans, has a belt for conveying items placed thereon through various stages of a washing cycle and a hold-down conveyor overlying the cans for preventing them from tipping. The hold-down conveyor has stiffening means extending thereacross and is trained over rolls or drums which are specially formed to accommodate the stiffening means. The conveyor is longitudinally supported by having rollers projecting from its longitudinal edges and which ride on tracks.