Abstract: The invention relates to a plant for producing pallet-less stacks of bundles and particularly sacks around which is shrunk a sheet with which the bundle is palleted, the bundle stack is provided with a first cover sheet and is covered with a sheet covering, the packing sheet is shrunk, the stack is rotated by 180.degree., is provided with a second top sheet, which is in turn shrunk and at the end of the plant the sheet-wrapped pallet loads are accumulated in such a way that one or more loads can simultaneously be removed transversely to the stack conveying direction leading to sheet-wrapped bundle stacks with perfectly formed free spaces in the vicinity of the stack base surface for the engagement of conveying and lifting mechanisms.

Abstract: An automatic loading apparatus for stacking discrete cargo units such as sacks onto a loading surface of e.g. a truck, a railroad car a.s.o., including several feeding conveyors, sack handling devices such as conveyors, a sack shaping assembly, a movable packing plate or a packing table, pusher and transfer devices, a loading head, sensor controllers, respective drive units associated with the various devices and a program type central control unit. The feeding conveyors may consist of conveyor belts, chutes or roller tracks.