A transport track for the stepped sliding transfer of cans in spinning preparation or spinning necessitates no rotating or continuously advanced parts if the can transporter is a straight pushrod which is mounted movably in the longitudinal direction and circumferential direction and which has drivers formed on it so as to be immovable in a plane radial to the longitudinal axis of the rod. The longitudinal bearings and pivot bearings of the rod are preferably separated. …<IMAGE>…