Can palletizing machine

Claim 1

IN A CAN PALLETIZING MACHINE, A HORIZONTAL CONVEYOR FOR MOVING A PALLET FROM A FIRST POSITION TO A SECOND POSITION REARWARD OF SAID FIRST POSITION, AN ELEVATOR FOR RAISING SAID PALLET UPWARDLY FROM SAID SECOND POSITION AND THE LOWERING SAID PALLET TO SAID SECOND POSITION IN INCREMENTS, AND A CAN LOADING MECHANISM AT THE TOP OF SAID ELEVATOR, A PLATE, MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING SAID PLATE ACROSS THE TOP OF SAID ELEVATOR, A CHUTE FOR CANS DISCHARGING CANS ON TO SAID PLATE TERMINATING DISPLACED FROM SAID SECOND POSITION, SAID PLATE IN ITS RETRACTED POSITION BEING UNDER SAID CHUTE AND IN ITS PROJECTED POSITION OVER SAID ELEVATOR, MEANS FOR INSERTING A SEPARATOR BETWEEN SAID CANS DISCHARGED FROM SAID CHUTE AND SAID PLATE, FIRST MEANS FOR RETAINING CANS IN POSITION ABOVE SAID ELEVATOR AS SAID PLATE IS WITHDRAWN TO DEPOSITE A LAYER OF CANS ON SAID PALLET, AND STRIPPER MEANS COMPRISING A STRIPPER BAR RESTING UPON AND EXTENDING TRANSVERAELY ACROSS SAID PLATE, SAID STRIPPER BAR BEING MOVABLE WITH SAID PLATE BETWEEN A RETRACTED POSITION FORWARD OF THE LOWER END OF SAID CHUTE AND A PROJECTED POSITION APPROXIMATELY OVER THE REARWARD EDGE OF SAID ELEVATOR, FIRST LATCH MEANS ON SAID STRIPPER BAR, SECOND LATCH MEANS ON SAID CAN LOADING MECHANISM COOPERABLE WITH SAID FIRST LATCH MEANS TO HOLD SAID STRIPPER BAR IN PROJECTED POSITION STATIONARY RELATIVE TO SAID PLATE, UNLATCHING MEANS MOVABLE WITH SAID PLATE TO DISENGAGE SAID FIRST AND SECOND LATCH MEANS WHEN SAID PLATE HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN TO A POSITION ADJACENT BUT SPACED FROM ITS RETRACTED POSITION, AND SECOND MEANS FOR RETAINING CANS IN POSITION ABOVE SAID ELEVATOR DURING THE INTERVAL BETWEEN UNLATCHING OF SAID STRIPPER BAR AND COMPLETION OF MOVEMENT OF SAID PLATE TO RETRACTED POSITION.