Method and apparatus for producing a reinforcement mesh

A method for producing a reinforcement mesh (45), the method comprising:

• feeding a reinforcement fiber strand (29) to a saturation station (31) via a conveying device (30),
• saturating the reinforcement fiber strand (29) with a resin (H),
• stripping an excess resin amount of the resin (H) from the saturated reinforcement fiber strand (29) in a stripping station (36),
• forming an uncured fiber-reinforced strand material (38) or curing the resin (H) in a curing station (37) to form a cured fiber-reinforced strand material (38),
• producing bars (26) by cutting the fiber-reinforced strand material (38) to a length in a cutting station (40),
• depositing a plurality of the bars (26) side-by-side as longitudinal bars (46) using a manipulator device (48),
• depositing another plurality of the bars (26) as transverse bars (47) on the longitudinal bars (46) using the manipulator device (48),
• connecting the transverse bars (47) and the longitudinal bars (46) at intersection points (64) thereof by:
• a) applying with a dispensing device a curable connecting material (V) exclusively to the intersection points (64), at each of which one of the longitudinal bars (46) and transverse bars (47) come into contact, either after the longitudinal and transverse bars are in contact, or prior to the transverse bars (47) being deposited on the longitudinal bars (46), and
• curing the connecting material (V) for connection of the transverse bars (47) to the longitudinal bars (46) at the intersection points (64) when the longitudinal bars (46) and/or transverse bars (47) are already cured, or
• b) curing the longitudinal bars (46) and/or transverse bars (47) for connection of the transverse bars (47) to the longitudinal bars (46) at the intersection points (64) when the longitudinal bars (46) and/or transverse bars (47) are not yet cured prior to connection thereof.