Abstract: This disclosure relates to an apparatus for feeding can bodies serially. The apparatus includes a delivery path wherein can bodies arranged in a row are presented one at a time to a feed apparatus wherein a rotating cam member receives the leading can body or similar cylindrical object and moves the same from the feed path to a delivery path. Several different types of feed mechanisms are illustrated, and most particularly there is provided an arcuate guide path which is concentric to a shaft carrying the cam member with the cam member being particularly configurated for cooperation with the arcuate path. The cam member will preferably have a partially spiral-shaped part. In a preferred embodiment, the delivery path stops immediately adjacent the cam member and there is a stop member against which the can is held by a cylindrical surface of the cam member. The can is moved endwise away from the stop out of the delivery path.

Abstract: Can body, particularly made of thin drawn metal sheet, having a laterally projecting flange intended for sealingly securing the end wall to the can body, said flange being doubled. Preferably the flange is folded towards the side remote from the body, while the diameter of the free end of the doubled flange does not exceed the diameter of the main part of the can body. The invention additionally relates to such can body having an end wall sealingly secured thereto.