Abstract: A method for conveying articles comprises sucking a first article to be conveyed into a conveyor pipe by utilizing a negative pressure caused by a first air flow, and discharging the first air flow from an intermediate portion of the conveyor pipe and at the same time sucking a second article to be conveyed into the pipe, while lowering the speed of the conveyed first article leaving the conveyor pipe by utilizing a second air flow having a smaller flow rate than that of the first air flow, and an apparatus for receiving and transporting an article conveyed by the above method comprises a window provided at the remaining portion of the upper end part of the conveyor pipe, and a belt conveyor placed just above the upper end part and having an elastic member and magnets.

Abstract: Apparatus for slitting an elongated bag enclosing an article. The apparatus includes a bag support and a mechanism for engaging a portion of the bag wall adjacent the middle of the bag and pulling the engaged wall portion in a direction transverse to the axis of the bag so that the engaged wall portion extends in such transverse direction away from the article enclosed in the bag. The apparatus includes a pair of blades and mechanism for forcing the blades through the wall of the bag between the engaged wall portion and the article to puncture the bag. The blade movement mechanism is arranged to move the blades in opposite directions towards the end of the bag after the blades have so punctured the bag wall to slit the wall of the bag longitudinally.

Abstract: An apparatus for defatting treatment of containers using a volatile cleaning liquid for defatting treatment where no pocket is provided near the portion connecting the shell, which is a part defining the cavity for the reception of a container, with the crown sealing said cavity.

Abstract: An apparatus for reverse redrawing of a cup is provided with an annular ring surrounding the upper end periphery of body portion of a die ring, provided concentrically with the die ring, a slightly larger clearance than the wall thickness of the cup to be redrawn being provided between the inside surface of the annular ring and the outside surface of the die ring.

Abstract: In a multi-stage washing system comprising a plurality of washing tanks, fresh liquid is applied over a treated material at a front position in the zone of a furthermost tank, whereas in the tanks excluding a nearest tank, washing liquid is pumped from the individual washing tanks in an amount of more than that of the applied fresh liquid and applied over the treated material at a front position in the zones of individual adjacent washing tanks placed after said individual washing tanks in an amount of the applied fresh liquid and a rear position in the zones of said individual washing tanks in the remaining amount.

Abstract: In continuously blanking a coiled metal sheet, an operator rapidly detects parts of welded connection of a metal sheet without any manual touch of the metal sheet, removes the parts of welded connection and restarts the apparatus for blanking the metal sheet.

Abstract: A cylindrical can being transported along a vertical circular passageway is passed through a first application zone where a part of the given amount of white paint is applied to all the outer surface of the can body and then advanced to a second application zone where the rest of said white paint is applied to all the said coated surface.

Abstract: A coated metallic article has a paint film formed by applying pigment-containing synthetic resin paints to the substrate and baking or curing the coating. The paint film is made of two or three layers of paint compositions consisting of a synthetic resin in common containing a pigment in common but in different proportions.

Abstract: A drawn and ironed can body with integral bottom and a drawn and ironed can seamed with a top closure at the opening end are designed for packaging pressurized beverages and made of a sheet material thinner than that heretofore used for conventional drawn and ironed cans, and the top closure and the bottom resist buckling as might be caused by the actual internal pressure produced therein.

Abstract: A cap for a bottle, having a top wall provided with an annular projected part, a skirt portion suspending downward from the peripheral edge of the top wall, a tab suspending downward from a part of the lower edge of the skirt portion, a pair of first separating lines extending toward the top wall from the vicinity of the intersection of the peripheral edge of the tap and the lower edge of the skirt portion, and a pair of second separating lines extending to the vicinity of the upper end of the skirt portion from the lower edge thereof, wherein the distance between the upper ends of the first separating lines is designed such that the terminal ends of the tearing of the first separating lines themselves, or of the tearing effected beyond the lines, are positioned on the tangent line of the internal peripheral circle of the annular projected part.