To reduce a contact area with a metallic plate and reduce the scratch and the unevenness of temperature by forming a wicket capable of loading a coated and printed metallic plate for transferring the same into a drying furnace, by rotatably mounting a plurality of rolling elements supporting the metallic plate from a lower part, on an approximately flat plate-shaped framework.

A framework member consists of an outer frame 7 forming an outer edge part of a lattice framework and a reinforcement member 8 for reinforcing the outer frame, rolling element accommodating tools 6 are mounted on a plurality of places of the framework member, and the rolling elements (balls) 5 are rotatably accommodated therein, to form a wicket 2 mounted on an endless track chain at its bottom part 22. The wicket 2 is provided with a metallic plate stopper 23 on the bottom part 22 for preventing the metallic plate from being collided with the endless track when the metallic plate is retracted to the wicket 2. Further a metallic plate receiving tool 24 is mounted for receiving the metallic plate fallen down from the wicket 2 at the back on the endless track at a top part 21 in the retraction of the metallic plate.