Abstract: An arrangement wherein a frame with mutually parallel guide tracks for transversely placed winding cores fed thereto is mounted in a stand, the distance of the guide tracks from each other or the distance of the winding cores mounted in it is the same as their desired distance on the winding shafts. The front parts of the tracks are provided with recesses in such a manner that the winding cores are exposed on parts thereof which are mutually opposite to each other, and respective tong-like grippers are provided in the stand for each of the winding cores so that their gripping jaws substantially simultaneously engage opposite sides of the winding cores, and the grippers and the frame are adapted to be so relatively moved that the winding shaft may be inserted through the aligned bores of the winding cores lifted from the tracks and held by the grippers in order to take up the cores.

Abstract: Apparatus for stacking articles, particularly pallets on which articles having a substantially flat surface, preferably large sacks, have been deposited, the apparatus includes spaced apart parallel tines, which constitute lifting arms and are adapted to extend under the pallets or into openings thereof and are mounted on a slide, which is movable in vertical tracks and adapted to be lifted and lowered by a drive device. The vertical tracks are connected to a stationary base frame. The tines are extensible and retractable and guided in tracks of the slide. A conveyor for the articles to be stacked is disposed below the tines when they have been extended.