Device and method for feeding cross wires in a wire mesh welding machine

A method for feeding cross wires to a production line for mesh mats with upper and lower cross wires, which can be welded to a set of longitudinal wires, with the repeating sequence of steps, comprising:

• (i) removing an upper supplied cross wire from a magazine in a guide channel of an upper cross-wire feeder, said upper cross-wire feeder being arranged in a first position above the production line;
• (ii) feeding the upper supplied cross wire from step (i) to the set of longitudinal wires;
• (iii) removing a lower supplied cross wire from a cross-wire storage device arranged underneath the production line using a lower cross-wire feeder also arranged underneath the production line, wherein at least one cross wire is supplied to the lower cross-wire storage device by the following steps:
• (a) removing the at least one cross wire from the magazine, placing the at least one cross wire in the guide channel of the upper cross-wire feeder, and pivoting the upper cross-wire feeder from the first position into a second position;
• (b) feeding the at least one cross wire from (a) into a park position of the cross-wire storage device;
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• (c) pivoting the upper cross-wire feeder back into the first position;
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• (iv) feeding the lower supplied cross wire from step (iii) to the set of longitudinal wires.