Machine and method for producing simply reinforced steel wire meshes

A machine for producing uniaxial reinforcing steel bar meshes, having a steel strip conveyor (1) for conveying a plurality of support strips (2) which are parallel to one another and spaced apart from one another, and a reinforcing bar conveyor (3), wherein the reinforcing bar conveyor (3) conveys individual reinforcing bars (4) in a crossing manner onto the plurality of support strips (2), forming crossing points (5), and also positions them in a longitudinal-axial manner with respect thereto, and a plurality of connecting units (6) operatively arranged at each crossing point (5), wherein a connecting unit (6) has a binding wire conveyer (7) feeding a binding wire (8) through a rotating unit (9), wherein the rotating unit (9) is movable relative to the support strip (2) and the crossing reinforcing bar (4) and is arranged on a side of the plane defined by the support strip (2) and the reinforcing bar (4), wherein the connecting unit (6) further has a binding wire guide unit (10) which is arranged on the opposite side of the plane and which frictionally feeds out and holds a binding wire (8) fed thereinto by the binding wire conveyer (7) in a direction reverse to the infeed direction, wherein the rotating unit (9) twists the two binding wire strands (11) located on a side of the plane together and cuts them to length, characterized in that the rotating unit (9) and the binding wire guide unit (10) are moved towards each other in a closing manner to form a wire loop connecting the support strip (2) and the reinforcing bar (4) in such a manner that the support strip (2) and the reinforcing bar (4) are pressed against each other.