AU2017100959B4 - KUPAE (native bee) ENVIRO BEEHIVES - Google Patents
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Abstract
MOONDAREWA INC.
INVENTOR: Mr Maxwell Eugene Dillon
THE BEE BUNKER - Patent Application No. 2017100959
ABSTRACT:
The Bee Bunker is an all-weather, carbon negative, low maintenance, native beehive using existing
beehive designs, positioned to gain optimum effect of its inbuilt features, using a never before-used
construction for hives, i.e., hempcrete.
Description
MOONDAREWA INC. INVENTOR: Mr Maxwell Eugene Dillon THE BEE BUNKER - Patent Application No. 2017100959
The Bee Bunker is a beehive constructed from hempcrete. The unique use of hempcrete (a mix of hemp shiv, lime, and water, which has then cured) as the primary construction material for the beehive improves substantially upon previous production approaches, where the beehive would typically be constructed primarily of wood, plastic or potentially concrete. The use of hempcrete confers a variety of advantages to the bee bunker hive compared with other beehives, in terms of both function and longevity. It has the potential to last more than ten times longer than conventional plywood beehives, which have a typical lifespan of less than 20years.
Use of hempcrete as the primary construction material makes hives produced in accordance with this innovation strong, durable, waterproof and carbon negative (absorbing carbon from the atmosphere to become stronger and denser over time). Hempcrete is less brittle, more lightweight,and more environmentally friendly than concrete.
This construction confers the hive with improved thermoregulatory properties compared with othermaterials as hempcrete is an excellent insulator; this allows the hive to be effective in maintaining more stable and consistent internal temperatures across a wide range of external temperature and weather conditions, reducing stress upon the resident colony.
Hempcrete ensures that the hive is breathable; hempcrete absorbs, stores and releases moisture depending upon environmental conditions (unlike plastic, which if used for construction may causewaterto pool inside the hive through condensation).
The thickness of the hempcrete walls varies according to the size of the Bee Bunker produced, toprovide an optimal ratio of strength, breathability, and thermal insulation.
Unlike hives made from wood, the hempcrete hive is termite resistant, and resistant to mould and fungal growth, reducing the maintenance requirements of the hive.
Unlike other typical beehives constructed from plywood or plastic, hempcrete is non flammable,allowing the hive to survive fire events, such as bushfires or cultural burning activities.
Whilst designed specifically with Australian native bees (and Australian climatic conditions) in mind, the hive could be used across a wide range of climate and weather conditions, to house any social bee species that will colonize it.
Claims (4)
1. The Bee Bunker beehive uses hempcrete as the primary material from which the hive is constructed.
2. The hempcrete hive as claimed in claim 1 will typically be produced in the shape of an upright- standing cylinder, enclosed on all sides, with an opening to allow bees to enter and exit, but can alsobe fashioned into alternative shapes (prior to hempcrete curing) that are suitable for the purpose of housing bees, such as a cube or a rectangular pris m, consistent with previous beehives designs usingalternative construction materials.
3. The hempcrete hive as claimed in claim 1 will be fashioned to the desired shape (per claim 2) using aframe or mould that is separated from the hive after the hempcrete has cured, which may be constructed of any suitable material for the purpose of providing shape to the uncured hempcrete mix (with plastic a preferred material for ease of extraction and reuse).
4. The hempcrete for construction of the hive as claimed in claims 1-3 should be mixed at an approximate ratio of one part hemp shivto one part lime plus one part water; the precise ratio of ingredients specified may be adjusted to ensure that the uncured hempcrete mix is of appropriate consistencyfor binding of the ingredients and application to the mould (specified at claim3), according to the properties of the hemp shiv incorporated (to allowfor naturally occurring variabilityin the hemp and the degree to which it has been processed), and factors such as prevailing weather conditions that may require adjustment to the volume of water added (with less water required in conditions of high-humidity, for example).
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| AU2017100959A4 AU2017100959A4 (en) | 2017-09-07 |
| AU2017100959B4 true AU2017100959B4 (en) | 2021-10-28 |
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| US99973A (en) * | 1870-02-15 | Improvement in buildings | ||
| US408763A (en) * | 1889-08-13 | Bee-house | ||
| US940407A (en) * | 1908-07-20 | 1909-11-16 | George R Sinnickson | Beehive. |
| US1067459A (en) * | 1913-01-24 | 1913-07-15 | Benton T Bosserman | Supplemental beehive-casing. |
| US3480977A (en) * | 1966-11-28 | 1969-12-02 | Francis H Bauder | Self-storing alighting board for beehives |
| US4736479A (en) * | 1985-03-25 | 1988-04-12 | Lagerman Bjoern A L | Method and cover board for harvesting honey in free beekeeping |
| US5403226A (en) * | 1994-01-06 | 1995-04-04 | Trafford; Norman F. | Leaf cutter bee nest |
| US8764512B1 (en) * | 2009-04-14 | 2014-07-01 | James L. Watson | Inner cover for bee hive |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| US99973A (en) * | 1870-02-15 | Improvement in buildings | ||
| US408763A (en) * | 1889-08-13 | Bee-house | ||
| US940407A (en) * | 1908-07-20 | 1909-11-16 | George R Sinnickson | Beehive. |
| US1067459A (en) * | 1913-01-24 | 1913-07-15 | Benton T Bosserman | Supplemental beehive-casing. |
| US3480977A (en) * | 1966-11-28 | 1969-12-02 | Francis H Bauder | Self-storing alighting board for beehives |
| US4736479A (en) * | 1985-03-25 | 1988-04-12 | Lagerman Bjoern A L | Method and cover board for harvesting honey in free beekeeping |
| US5403226A (en) * | 1994-01-06 | 1995-04-04 | Trafford; Norman F. | Leaf cutter bee nest |
| US8764512B1 (en) * | 2009-04-14 | 2014-07-01 | James L. Watson | Inner cover for bee hive |
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