KR20230091433A - bee hive preventing crak and warp - Google Patents

Abstract

A crack-resistant beehive according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a body which has an empty cylindrical shape inside, and forms a cut area by cutting one area along a center line of the cylinder shape, wherein a cut surface of the cut area is formed in a finger joint structure; and a beehive fixing piece which is fitted to the cut surface in a shape that engages the finger joint structure of the cut surface.

Description

anti-splitting hive {bee hive preventing crak and warp}

The present invention relates to a beehive, and more particularly, to an anti-split type beehive that is manufactured in a cylindrical shape for breeding native bees, minimizes cracking of the cylindrical structure, and is easy to stack as many times as necessary.

Bees raised in Korea are largely divided into beekeeping and hanbong (native bees). Beekeeping is raised in beehives made of rectangular frames, and beekeepers' beehives are made of Styrofoam boxes or using boards.

On the other hand, native bees, which are smaller in size and more sensitive than beekeepers, prefer hollow, cylindrical-shaped houses, and unlike beekeepers, native bees do not distinguish between a nursery and a low-density room, so it is very difficult to distinguish where the queen is located in the hive. It can be propagated by natural division method instead of method.

In addition, native bees fill the hive structure from the top of the hive and do not like empty space, so the breeding start point should be small in size, and when the population increases, the size of the beehive is gradually increased according to the number of beehives. this should be created.

However, currently, the breeding ratio between beekeeping and native bees exceeds 9:1, and most of the beehives are manufactured according to beekeeping, and most of the beehives are manufactured and sold using Styrofoam or low-cost synthetic wood in a square frame.

The beehives sold are manufactured in a form unsuitable for the growth of native bees, and prices are lowered by standardizing multi-stage beehives and mass-producing them.

With the enactment and enforcement of the Beekeeping Industry Act in 2019, bees were recognized as livestock, and breeding management began in the country. Square beehives for beekeeping are imported in large quantities, but there is no company that produces cylindrical beehives that are preferred by native bees and suitable for the growth of native bees. .

Accordingly, the present applicant intends to propose a crack-preventing beehive that manufactures a beehive in a shape favored by native bees, but does not crack or crack the hive due to changes in temperature and humidity.

Republic of Korea Patent No. 10-2338322 (name of invention: beehive) Republic of Korea Utility Model No. 20-2009-0011244 (Title of Invention: Native beehive)

An object of the present invention is to provide an anti-split type beehive in which a beehive is made of cylindrical wood suitable for the growth of native bees, and the occurrence of cracks or warping of the cylindrical wood due to temperature change and moisture content change is minimized.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a crack-resistant beehive that allows bees to freely move while minimizing the invasion of external insects (waps, moths) and allows ventilation inside the hive.

According to the present invention, the above object has a cylindrical shape with an empty interior, and cuts a region along the center line of the cylindrical shape to form an incision region, and the cut surface of the incision region is a body formed in a finger joint structure, and This is achieved by a beehive fixing piece fitted to the cutting surface in a shape that engages the finger joint structure of the cutting surface.

According to the present invention, when the beehive is built by stacking the upper and lower beehives, each beehive has a cylindrical shape with an empty interior, and a region is cut along the center line of the cylindrical shape to cut the beehive. A body formed in a finger joint structure on the cut surface of the cut area and a beehive fixing piece fitted to the cut surface in a shape engaged with the finger joint structure on the cut surface; wherein the lower beehive includes bees At least one entrance is provided for entry and exit, the entrance is formed on the beehive fixing piece on the lower hive side, and the path from the outer periphery to the inner periphery of the body is achieved by an anti-split type beehive with an upward oblique line.

According to the present invention, beehives suitable for the growth characteristics of native bees can be manufactured and supplied in a multi-staged manner by growth stage using domestic wood.

According to the present invention, by incising one area of the hive and filling the incision area again with wood, the cylindrical beehive can be prevented from cracking or bursting due to changes in temperature and humidity according to breeding.

1 shows an example in which a plurality of anti-split beehives are stacked according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of any one of the split-resistant beehives shown in FIG. 1 .
Figure 3 shows a detailed perspective view of a beehive fixture.
4 shows a reference drawing of a method of fastening the beehive fixing piece to the body.
5 shows a perspective view of a beehive according to another embodiment of the present invention.
6 and 7 show detailed perspective views of the beehive anchoring piece shown in FIG. 5 .
Fig. 8 shows the overall combined view of the hive shown in Fig. 5;
FIG. 9 shows a perspective view of another embodiment of the beehive fixing piece shown in FIG. 5 ;

The finger joint structure mentioned in this specification refers to the one mentioned in Table 1 below, as one of the methods of joining wood.

As shown in Table 1, the finger joint structure is one of the methods of combining solid wood or glued laminated wood. Before fastening, two plates having a sawtooth structure are crossed, and after fastening, it is fastened as if fingers were inserted Its name derives from its shape.

The finger joint structure referred to in this specification is as shown in Table 1, and the "finger joint structure" used throughout this specification applies Table 1 mutatis mutandis.

Glued laminated wood referred to in this specification may refer to wood scraps generated when processing or crushing raw wood mixed with an adhesive material such as a bond and hardened, or heat-compressed wood scraps in a high-temperature atmosphere.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 shows an example in which a plurality of anti-split beehives are stacked according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1 , a split-prevention type beehive (hereinafter, referred to as “beehive”) according to an embodiment may be stacked in multiple pieces to construct a single beehive. 1, it can be seen that five beehives 100 to 140 are vertically stacked. The outer diameter R3 of the uppermost beehive 140 is the smallest, and the outer diameters R4, R5, R6, It can be seen that R7) gradually increases.

The outer diameter (R7) of the beehive 100 located at the bottom is the largest among the stacked beehives 100 to 140, which depends on the growth characteristics of the native bees. Native bees start growing in the topmost beehive 140, and as the population increases, a larger space is required at the lower end of the hive 140, and the beehive shown in FIG. Accordingly, the upper beehive 140 has the smallest inner diameter R1 and outer diameter R3, and the outer diameter gradually increases from the neighboring beehive 130. Here, the inner diameters (R1) of the beehive 140 and the beehive 130 are the same, but only the outer diameters R3 and R4 are different, and the lower beehives 100, 110 and 120 also have outer diameters going downward. increases, but the inner diameter R2 remains the same. The reason why the inner diameter is composed of only two R1 and R2 is to facilitate stacking of the beehives 100 to 140. Even though the inner diameter R2 is the same, the outer diameters of the hives (100, 110, and 120) are differentiated. , 130, 140) can be supported.

When beekeeping is first started with a small number of native bees, it starts with only one hive (140), but as the population of native bees gradually increases, additional hives (130) are connected, and when the population increases, the hive (120) The entire beehive can be configured in the form of additional connection. The 5-stage beehive illustrated in FIG. 1 actually corresponds to a colony of native bees with a significant population, and usually, when the population increases beyond this size, a new queen bee swarms.

Hereinafter, the detailed structure of the beehive described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4.

FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of any one of the anti-splitting beehives shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 shows a detailed perspective view of the beehive fixing piece, and FIG. 4 is a reference view of a method of fastening the beehive fixing piece to the body. shows

2 to 4 together, the beehive 110 according to the embodiment may include a body 111 and a beehive fixing piece 112.

The body 111 may be formed by digging the inside of a log. The inside of the body 111 has an empty cylindrical or cylindrical shape, and the wood on the outside of the log forms the circular edge to form the body 111. When the body 111 has a cylindrical shape, the incision area S can be formed by incising a range of 2% to 8% of the length of the body 111 along the center line PL of the cylindrical shape. there is.

Here, the incision area (S) means a range of 2% to 8% of the length of the entire outer periphery of the body 111, and preferably can be formed by incising 3% of the length of the entire outer periphery. In FIG. 2, the angle formed by the area in the range of 2% to 8% is indicated as "θ", and the area corresponding to the angle "θ" is incised from the body 111 to form the incision area S. do.

The incision area (S) is formed to prevent cracking and twisting of the body (111). Wood, especially raw wood, increases or decreases in volume depending on the surrounding temperature and humidity. Moisture content, which is the moisture contained inside the wood, is a problem in Korea, where the four seasons are distinct and the dry and rainy seasons are repeated. In areas where constant temperature and humidity are guaranteed throughout the year, such as California in the United States, warping or bursting of processed wood rarely occurs, whereas in Korea, where the temperature difference between winter with sub-zero temperatures and summer with temperatures exceeding 35 degrees exceeds 50 degrees at most. When dry and rainy seasons are repeated, the moisture content of wood fluctuates between 8% and 25%, and wood can repeat expansion and contraction. Moreover, beehives located in fields where flowers bloom are directly exposed to changes in temperature and humidity, making it difficult to avoid cracking or bursting of the body 111. By forming the incision area S on the body 111, changes in temperature and humidity of the body 111 are prevented from being condensed within the circular rim.

The cross section of the cutout area S may be formed to have a finger joint structure.

The cross section of the incision area (S) has a sawtooth shape in which protrusion and retraction are repeated, and the cross section (A1) and cross section (A2) have sawtooth waves so that they can be fitted when surfaces facing the beehive fixing piece 112 are adjacent to each other. The shapes may be staggered with each other. That is, when end surfaces A1 and A2 are adjacent to the beehive fixing piece 112, if there is a protruding sawtooth at the end face A1, the adjacent beehive fixing piece 112 has a protrusion at the end face A1. It can be formed in such a way that a recessed structure for fitting with the toothed teeth is arranged.

The beehive fixing piece 112 is fitted to the incision area S and has a sawtooth shape that engages with the end faces A1 and A2 to be fitted. In addition, the outer and inner peripheries of the beehive fixing piece 112 may be formed along the same radius of curvature as the outer and inner peripheries of the body 111, respectively. This is because when the beehive fixing piece 112 is fitted into the incision area S, the body 111 and the beehive fixing piece 112 realize a single outer periphery and inner periphery, so that the beehive fixing piece 112 becomes the body Do not protrude or sink in (111).

The beehive fixing piece 112 is made by cutting wood of the same material as the body 111, or by-products generated when the incision area S or the inside of the body 111 is dug out in the body 111, that is, of the body 111. It may be a laminated tree using sawdust. At this time, the beehive fixing piece 112 can be formed by applying pressure to the aggregated wood in a high-temperature atmosphere to make a beehive fixing piece, or by additionally mixing an adhesive.

The use of wood of the same material as the body 111 for the beehive fixing piece 112 is to expand and contract with the same thermal expansion coefficient as the body 111 at the same temperature and humidity as the body 111.

It has been described that the body 111 and the beehive fixing piece 112 are fastened by fitting. This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4 .

Referring to FIG. 4, in order to fix the beehive fixing piece 112 to the body 111, apply force to the body 111 in the d1 and d2 directions to spread the body 111 apart (see FIG. 4 (a)) , Insert the beehive fixing piece 112 into the incision area S widened from the body 111 in the d3 direction to fix the beehive fixing piece 112 to the incision area S (see Fig. 4(b)).

On the other hand, an entrance for entry and exit of native bees may be formed on one side of the beehive fixing piece 112, and an exhaust port may be formed in any one of the beehives 100 to 140 stacked in FIG. 1.

The entrance may be formed by forming a hole with dimensions that allow native bees to enter and exit, and as shown in FIG. 3, an entrance 112a is drilled at one end so that the inside and outside of the body 111 are connected. may be in the form of

Similarly, if the entrance of the form shown in FIG. 3 is turned upside down and fastened to the beehive 100, it can be used as an exhaust outlet for discharging moisture inside the beehives 100 to 140.

5 shows a perspective view of a beehive according to another embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 6 and 7 show detailed perspective views of the beehive fixture shown in FIG. 5, and FIG. 8 shows the beehive shown in FIG. Shows the total coupling.

5 to 8 together, the beehive 200 according to the embodiment is constructed by stacking unit cylinders 210, 220 and 230 having the same diameter, and the structure of the middle layer beehive 220 located in the middle. Is the same as that described with reference to FIG. 2 above. The description of the structure and description of the middle layer beehive 220 applies mutatis mutandis to the description of FIGS. 2 to 4 .

Based on the middle layer beehive 220, the structure and shape of the beehive fixing pieces 212 and 232 fitted to the upper beehive 210 located above it and the lower beehive 230 located below it are shown in Figs. 4, except that the beehive fixing piece 212 has an entrance 232a and an exhaust port is formed on the beehive fixing piece 212, so that the hive described through FIGS. 2 to 4 It has a difference from the fixing piece 112. The structure other than the entrance 232a and the exhaust port 212a provided in the beehive fixing pieces 212 and 232, that is, the description of the beehive fixing piece 112 mentioned in FIGS. 2 to 4 applies mutatis mutandis, and overlapping descriptions should be omitted and the differences should be noted.

The entrance 232a provided on the beehive fixing piece 232 is provided for native bees to enter and exit the beehive 200. In FIG. 5 , a path from the outer periphery of the lower beehive 220 to the inner periphery of the entrance 232a may form an upward oblique line d4 as shown in FIG. 6 .

The entrance 232a has a narrow horizontal width L1 and a long vertical width L2, and the size of an insect that can enter and exit is limited by the horizontal width L1. If the length of L1 is formed to be similar to the size of the native bee, it is not easy for wasps or moths having a larger body size than the native bee to enter and exit through the entrance 232a.

The exhaust port 212a is provided for air circulation inside the beehive 200.

The exhaust port 212a is provided in the upper beehive 210 for smooth air discharge, and may form a downward oblique line from the outer periphery of the upper beehive 210 toward the inner periphery. The exhaust port 212a may be formed with the same dimensions as the entrance 232a. In this case, the hot and humid air inside the beehive 200 is discharged to the outside to achieve air circulation inside the beehive 200, as well as It can also be used as an entrance for native bees.

On the other hand, the entrance 232a or the exhaust port 212a is not formed in the middle layer beehive 220 located between the upper beehive 210 and the lower beehive 230. The middle layer beehive 220 is used for expanding the habitat of native bees and storing honey.

FIG. 9 shows a perspective view of another embodiment of the beehive fixing piece shown in FIG. 5 ;

Figure 9 (a) shows the beehive fixture 310 with entrances 311 to 313, and Figure 9 (b) shows the beehive holder 320 with outlets 321 to 323 do.

First, referring to (a) of FIG. 9 , three entrances 311, 312, and 313 are formed in the beehive fixing piece 310. The three entrances 311 to 313 formed on the beehive fixture 310 allow three native bees to enter and exit at once. Of course, the number of entrances is one or two. It may be three or more, and if you want to form three or more on the beehive fixing piece 310, it may be formed above, below, or in the middle of the beehive fixing piece 310. but not limited As described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 8 , the entrances 311 to 313 are preferably formed along an upward oblique line d5 from the outer periphery to the inner periphery of the beehive fixing piece 310 .

Next, looking at (b) of FIG. 9, three exhaust ports 321, 322, and 323 are formed, and even if native bees can enter and exit, they are formed in dimensions that make it difficult for wasps or moths to enter and exit, which are bulkier than native bees. 2 to 8, when viewed from the outer periphery to the inner periphery of the beehive fixing piece 320, it is preferable that the exhaust ports 321, 322 and 323 are formed along the downward advance d6. .

110: hive 111: body
112: beehive fixing piece

Claims (9)

a body having an empty cylindrical shape, forming an incision area by cutting an area along a center line of the cylindrical shape, and a cut surface of the incision area having a finger joint structure; and
An anti-splitting beehive comprising a beehive fixing piece fitted to the cutting surface in a shape that engages the finger joint structure of the cutting surface. According to claim 1,
The trigger fixing piece,
An anti-split type beehive, characterized in that the outer periphery and the inner periphery are formed according to the curvature radii of the outer and inner peripheries of the body, respectively. According to claim 1,
The beehive fixing piece,
An anti-split type beehive, characterized in that it is a laminated wood of the same wood as the body. According to claim 1,
The incision area is
Anti-split type beehive, characterized in that the range of 1% to 8% compared to the rim length of the body. According to claim 1,
The beehive fixing piece,
Anti-split type beehive, characterized in that at least one entrance is formed for the entry and exit of bees. When the upper and lower beehives are stacked to build a beehive, each of the beehives,
a body having an empty cylindrical shape, forming an incision area by cutting an area along a center line of the cylindrical shape, and a cut surface of the incision area having a finger joint structure; and
A beehive fixing piece fitted and coupled to the cut surface in a shape that engages the finger joint structure of the cut surface, wherein the lower beehive,
At least one entrance for entry and exit of bees is provided, the entrance is formed on the beehive fixing piece on the lower hive side, and the path from the outer periphery to the inner periphery of the body is an upward oblique line. . According to claim 6,
The upper hive,
At least one exhaust port is provided for the entry and exit of the bees and the discharge of internal moisture, and is formed on the beehive fixing piece on the upper beehive side,
Anti-split type beehive, characterized in that the path from the outer periphery to the inner periphery of the body is a downward oblique line. According to claim 6,
The anti-split type beehive further comprising: a middle layer beehive provided between the upper beehive and the lower beehive. According to claim 8,
Anti-split type beehive, characterized in that the diameter of the outer periphery increases and the diameter of the inner periphery is the same in the order of the upper beehive, the middle layer beehive, and the lower beehive.

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