CA2873564A1 - 8-chamber queen bee mating box - Google Patents

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CA2873564A1
CA2873564A1 CA2873564A CA2873564A CA2873564A1 CA 2873564 A1 CA2873564 A1 CA 2873564A1 CA 2873564 A CA2873564 A CA 2873564A CA 2873564 A CA2873564 A CA 2873564A CA 2873564 A1 CA2873564 A1 CA 2873564A1
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01KANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
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The 8- chamber queen bee mating box consists of a large external hive box and 8 mini mating boxes placed inside, each with individual feeding containers as part of the mini mating box lids. One of the entrances of every mini mating box connects with one of the apertures on the walls of the large external hive box. Ventilation grids on the front and bottom sides of mini mating box body, working together with two ventilation poles, ensure good ventilation and a cool temperature inside during transporting. The design aims to provide a practical solution for large-scale queen bee production, using less field space, less bees, smaller transportation volume, less manpower and time. Additionally, poor insulation, inconvenient feeding, difficult queen checking and catching, cease to be issues.

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Description 8-chamber queen bee mating box FIELD
The present invention relates to the cultivation of queen bees, more particularly to a queen bee muting box.
BACKGROUND
Currently in the beekeeping industry, the queen bee of each hive has to be replaced every one or two years in order to maintain high productivity of the colony.
Mating boxes then are needed for queen bee production. Traditionally, beekeepers use a standard hive box, 2 or 4 compartments inside a standard hive box separated by divider boards, or a single mini mating box used for queen bee rearing. Such methods and apparatus need more bees, frames, field space, transport space, manpower and time, and result in poor insulation and inconvenient feeding, difficult queen checking and catching. Some mating boxes are developed, shown in the following patents, trying to solve some of the problems.
Dli202004017175U1 Voigt, Carsten US:5158497A Philippe A. Rossignol CA1143219A1/LS4400837 Melvin Disselkoen There has been a continuing need for improvement.
It is the object of the given invention, 8-chamber mating box, to provide an efficient apparatus to solve all problems described above.
The utility value of this invention is achieved through the following design:
8 mini mating boxes, each with individual feeding containers, are collectively placed inside a large external hive box.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The following is an instance of the 8-chamber mating box.
8 mini mating boxes, are placed inside a large external hive box.
Furthermore, there is an entrance on each of the three of the four total sides of each mini mating box.
Furthermore, there are two apertures on each wall of the large external hive box.

Furthermore, each outer wall of the large external hive box, is divided into left and right portions by different coloration on each for easy recognition by the queen . bees on returning from mating fly, with the 8 portions on the 4 walls numbered 1-8 for easy noting.
Furthermore, upon placing each mini mating box in, one of the 3 entrances on a mini mating box will connect with one of 2 apertures on every wall of the large external hive box.
Furthermore, attached to the left portion of each wall of the large external hive box, is a small colored box, corresponding in color, separating one aperture from the other on the same wall of the large external hive box.
Furthermore, the small box, on which there is a card holder for note keeping, can be removed and folded For easy transportation and storage.
Furthermore, the mini mating box body and mini mating box lid, have one side joined by a hinge that can he completely separated and the other by a lock that can be opened.
After locking, the mini mating box can be carried by a handle on the lid.
Furthermore, on each of the three of the four total sides of the mini mating box body, there is an entrance. One of the entrances of the mini mating box body, depending on its position inside the large external hive box, connects with one of the eight apertures on the large external hive box. The other two entrances are blocked by entrance plugs.
The mini mating box lid, consists of two containers with individual lids. The larger one is the liquid feeding container, of which the lid is screwed on, with a feeding hole at the corner of the lid. The smaller container, of which the lid is flippable, protects the queen cage inserting aperture and lock located inside from weather.
Furthermore, the liquid feeding container, located at the hinge side, must be placed towards the outside of the large external hive box.
Furthermore, this 8-chamber mating box comes with two rods, of which the function is to raise all 8 mini mating boxes, for better ventilation through the ventilation grids on bottom and front sides of the mini mating box body, and ensure a cool temperature inside during transporting, by inserting them into four apertures on two wails of the large external hive box.
After loading the bees in each mini mating box, lock the mini mating box lid, place all 8 mini mating boxes into the large external hive box, move to field, insert queen cages with virgin queens, and pour the liquid feed through the feeding hold on the lid. Align all 8 entrances of 8 mini mating boxes with their corresponding apertures on the large external hive box, and attach the small box to the large external hive box. The 8¨chamber mating box is now settled down.
The benefits of the design are as follows: save field space, reduce labor and transport volume, and maintain warm internal environment by placing 8 mini mating boxes in a compact manner. This significantly reduces the cost and makes the production of queens more efficient.
Reference Numerals of Drawings Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of 8 mini mating boxes inside a large external hive box, with a small box mounted on.
Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of a single mini mating box.
Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a mini mating box lid.
Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of large external hive box.
I. large external hive box.
2. aperture on large external hive box.
3. small box mounted on large external hive box.
4. mini mating box.
5. mini mating box lid
6. liquid feeding container
7. liquid feeding container lid
8. small container lid
9. queen cage inserting aperture lid
10. queen cage inserting aperture
11. lock
12. divider board A
13. liquid feeding container entrance
14. divider board B
15. divider board C
16. handle
17. feeding hole
18. feeding hole plug
19. mini mating box body
20. front side ventilation grids
21. entrance plug
22. entrance
23. bottom ventilation grids
24. frame stabilizing notch
25. frame stabilizing bar
26. hinge
27. divider board
28. divider board slot
29. separator tab
30. separator bar
31. bottom board
32. ventilation pole
33. card holder DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The following is the detailed description referring to the figures. ' As shown in Figure 1, the 8-chamber queen mating box, consists of a large external hive box 1, and eight mini mating boxes 4 placed inside. As shown in Figure 4, two ventilation poles 32, are inserted into four apertures 2 on the large external hive box I. As shown in Figure 3, flip small container lid 8, undo lock 11, then the mini mating box lid 5 can be opened. As shown in Figure 2, put two mini frames into mini mating box body 19, until the frames sit inside frame stabilizing notches 24.
Shake about 300 bees into the mini mating box body 19. As shown in Figure 3, close mini mating box lid 5, then frame stabilizing bars 25 on mini mating box lid 5 sit firmly on two mini frames to stop them from moving, lock the mini mating box lid 5 with lock 11, open queen cage inserting aperture lid 9, insert queen cage with a virgin queen inside and a candy plug on the end, into queen cage inserting aperture 10, then close small container lid 8. As shown in Figure 1, carry eight mini mating boxes by the handle 16 on mini mating box lid 5, into the eight spaces, divided by six separator tabs 29 on separator bar 30 as shown in Figure 4, inside the large external hive box I. Then the eight mini mating boxes sit on the two ventilation poles 32, as shown in Figure 1, for better ventilation and ensure a cool temperature inside during transporting.
After moving to the field, as shown in Figure 1, remove the two ventilation poles 32, settle down the eight mini mating boxes to bottom board 31, then remove the corresponding entrance plugs 21 on mini mating box bodies 19, through the eight apertures 2 on the large external. hive box 1, let entrances 22 connect with the eight apertures 2 on the large external hive box 1, then bees get access to the respective mini mating box 4. As shown in Figure 3, remove feeding hole plug 18 on liquid feeding container lid 7, pour liquid feed into liquid feeding container 6, through feeding hole 17, put back the feeding hole plug 18, then bees have the access to the liquid feed flowing through the gaps under divider board C 15, by crossing over divider board B 14, after entering the liquid feeding container entrance 13, and the divider board A 12 prevents bees accessing to queen cage inserting aperture 10 and lock 11.
Furthermore, as shown in Figure 1, mount small boxes 3 with corresponding color, to left portion of each wall of the large external hive box 1. Take notes about the queen, bees, feed, date etc. on a card, then put the card into the card holder 33 on the small box 3.
About ten days later, come back to check queens 'mating status. As shown in Fig. 3, undo the lock II, flip the mini mating box lid 5, divider board C 15 will prevent liquid leaking from liquid feeding container 6. Take out the two mini frames to search the queen. If queen stays inside the mini mating box 4 instead of on the frames, take out the mini mating box 4 from the large external hive box 1, and dump al]
bees into a outer cover, then cage the queen. Mini mating box lid 5 can be detached from mini mating box body 19, by hinge 26, for easily knocking out all bees.
After mated queens are removed, the system can be reused until queen production season ends. If liquid feeding container 6 needs to be cleaned, it can be done either by pouring water through the feeding hole 17, or with thorough cleaning after removing the liquid feeding container lid 7 hy undoing the screws.
As shown in Figure 4, the large external hive box 1, can also be used as a 2-chamber mating box using regular frames, after removing the separator bar 30, and installing the divider board 27 into divider board slot 28.
As shown in Figure 1, the mini mating box 4, can also be used independently as a single mini mating box, by tying to a tree or a brick etc. It can also be used as an artificial swarm tool to balance the size of the colonies.
The applications described above are only a few examples possible with this invention.
In fact, by arranging different numbers of mini mating boxes inside the large external hive box, a variety of combinations can be achieved, with some modifications on the large external hive box, which all falls under the scope of the patent protection.

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Claims
1. The uniqueness of the 8- chamber queen bee mating box, lies in its constitution of 8 mini mating boxes placed inside a large external hive box. Said mini mating box is composed of a mini mating box body and a mini mating box lid. Said mini mating box lid is comprised of two separate containers itself.
2. Said large external hive box, according to the description in Claim 1, has its uniqueness in a separator bar in the middle on the top, which can separate and fix in place each mini mating box, described in Claim 1.
3. Said large external hive box, according to the description in Claim 1, has its uniqueness in the two apertures on each wall of the total four walls, which amount to eight apertures in total.
4. Said large external hive box, according to the description in Claim 1, has the left and right portions of each wall separated by a small box mounted on the outside surface of the left portion of corresponding color, which serves to separate the two apertures on each wall, according to the description in Claim 3.
5. Said small box, described in Claim 4, has its uniqueness in its card holder, where the card about the details of the queen's mating status, is placed and protected from weather.
6. Said mini mating box body, according to the description in Claim 1, has its uniqueness in the ventilation grids, located on the front and bottom sides of said mini mating box body.
7. Said mini mating box body, according to the description in Claim 1, has its uniqueness in the entrances. On each of the three of the four total sides, there is an entrance.
One of the entrances of the mini mating box body, depending on its position inside the external hive box, connects with one of the eight apertures on the external hive box, described in Claim 3. The other two entrances are blocked by entrance plugs.
8. Said mini mating box body and mini mating box lid, according to Claim 1, have one side joined by a hinge that can be completely separated and the other by a lock that can be opened.
9. Said mini mating box lid, described in Claim 1, has its uniqueness in consisting of two containers with individual lids. The larger one is the liquid feeding container, of which the lid is screwed on, with a feeding hole at the corner of the lid. The smaller container, of which the lid is flippable, protects the queen cage inserting aperture and lock located inside from weather.
10. Said liquid feeding container, according to Claim 9, is located at the hinge side, described in Claim 8, which must be placed towards the outside of the large external hive box.
11. Said liquid feeding container, according to Claim 9, is comprised of an entrance on the bottom side and a short divider board, over which bees can cross to access the liquid food, flowing through the gaps under a second divider board that extends the height of the feeding container. This prevents drowned bees and leaking when the mini mating box lid, described in Claim 1, is flipped open.
12. A feature of said 8- chamber queen bee mating box, described in Claim 1, is the two poles, which can be inserted into 4 apertures on two walls of the large external hive box to raise all 8 mini mating boxes ensuring good ventilation during transporting.
13. A feature of said 8- chamber queen bee mating box, described in Claim 1, is the frame stabilizing bars on mini mating box lid described in Claim 1, and the frame stabilizing notches inside of mini mating box body described in Claim 1, which work together to stop frames moving during a transporting.
14. Said mini mating box, described in Claim 1, can be used independently as a single mini mating box, by tying to a tree or a brick etc, as well as an artificial swarm tool to balance the size of colonies.
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CN107251854A (en) * 2017-07-06 2017-10-17 赵学昭 A kind of honeybee bee-nest box combines the area's mating case of frame four
US20200323178A1 (en) * 2018-02-26 2020-10-15 George A. Datto, III Two Queen Bee Hive Queen Excluder Assembly
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