Abstract: A stacking device for loads, especially for taking flat lying mattresses from one level and delivering them to a different level. The device has a vertically movable lifting platform between spaced pillars, and a mechanism for moving the lifting platform. Weights are provided at the pillars to pull the lifting platform upwards therealong. At least one transfer belt is provided at the lifting platform between the two pillars and is connected to a driver pulling the lifting platform via the transfer belt vertically downwards.

Abstract: An apparatus for packaging mattresses and including a furling drum having a roll-forming chamber defined by a plurality of circumferentially arranged rotatable rollers located downstream of a substantially nozzle-shaped feeding area of the drum, with the rollers having a surface pattern defined by a plurality of circumferentially spaced from each other mattress-engaging elements providing for rolling of a mattress into a roll and enabling movement of the mattress in an axial direction; and a forming tube provided downstream of the furling drum for wrapping the rolled mattress, with the forming tube having a diameter greater than a diameter of the furling drum.