Abstract: An apparatus for automatic bolting in rock reinforcement, the apparatus (11) having a drill (3) an injector, a bolting machine (5), a supply beam (6) a machine carriage (7) which is movable along the supply beam, a linear machine shifter switch (8) by means of which the drill and the bolting machine may be inserted on the machine carriage and which is shiftably disposed along and lockable on the supply beam for different bolt lengths, a working position adjustment device (9) which has sockets (10,11,12) for accommodating a drill bit (13), the forward end of the hose (14) of an injector, a bolt, and a positioning rod (15) which is fixedly mounted on the forward end of the supply beam and may be brought into abutment with the rock face for directing, by means of the appartus, in sequence, the drill bit, the hose and the bolt, at a point on the rock face for the purpose of accomplishing the rock reinforcement operation.