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IN A DRYING OVEN FOR DRYING COATING MATERIAL APPLIED TO THE EXTERIOR OF LIGHT-WEIGHT TUBULAR ARTICLES SUCH AS CANS, INCLUDING AN ENDLESS CONVEYOR HAVING A PLURALITY OF TUBULAR ARTICLE-CARRYING DEVICES EXTENDING THEREFROM AND SPACED APART ALONG THE LENGTH THEREOF; THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING SAID TUBULAR METAL ARTICLE-CARRYING DEVICE HAVING A SUPPORTING ROD OVER WHICH A TUBULAR METAL ARTICLE IS PLACED; A A GREAT MANY FINE RESILIENT METAL WIRES SUPPORTED BY AND EXTENDING IN A DIRECTION RADIALLY OUTWARDLY FROM THE SUPPORTING ROD; AT LEAST SOME OF THE WIRES BEING ANGULARLY SPACED ABOUT THE ROD SO THAT THEIR FREE ENDS DESCRIBE A GENERALLY CIRCULAR CONFIGURATION, WITH SOME OF THE WIRES BEING SPACED AXIALLY ALONG THE ROD WITH RESPECT TO OTHER OF THE WIRES AND THE WIRES BEING SIZED AS TO LENGTH TO PROVIDE A SLIGHT INTERFERENCE FIT BETWEEN THE OUTER ENDS THEREOF AND THE INTERIOR TUBULAR WALL OF THE METAL ARTICLE, SAID WIRE LENGTH AND TUBULAR WALLS COOPERATING TO DEFINE MEANS FOR RESILIENTLY BOWING SAID WIRES TO BE GENERALLY CONVEX IN THE DIRECTION OF AN APPLIED ARTICLE AND RETAINING SAID WIRES IN THEIR BOWED CONDITION, SAID WIRE ENDS AND ARTICLE WALL COOPERATING TO DEFINE FRICTIONAL MEANS WHEREBY A GREATER FORCE IS REQUIRED TO REMOVE THE METAL ARTICLE THAN TO APPLY THE METAL ARTICLE OVER SAID CARRYING DEVICE, RESULTING IN THE OUTER ENDS OF THE BOWED WIRES PRESSING LIGHTLY OUTWARDLY AGAINST THE INTERIOR TUBULAR WALL TO RETAIN THE TUBULAR ARTICLE IN PLACE ON THE CARRYING DEVICE.