RU2040173C1 - Middle partition of bee frame honeycomb - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: apiculture. SUBSTANCE: plastic plate of propylene 80 um thick is coated on both sides with a layer of bee glue 1-10 um thick and with layers of wax 100-150 um thick. Bee glue ensures high efficiency of assimilating by the bees of artificial honeycombs comprising the claimed middle partition. EFFECT: improved design. 2 cl, 5 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to the design of a bee frame intended for the withdrawal of bee brood and ultimately to obtain additional amounts of honey and marketable wax.

 Currently, beekeeping uses different designs of beehives with bee frames, which consist of wooden structures and a wax middle wall (wax), soldered for mechanical strength into a previously tightly stretched wire into the frame. If during operation the middle wall (wax) is damaged or outdated (the service life of a wax wax is 2-3 seasons), then the mediastinum is replaced with a new one. This technological operation to replace wax is expensive and time-consuming for the beekeeper, more than 80% of the cost of a bee frame-sushi.

 Closest to the invention is a mediastinum of a bee frame, consisting of a mediastinum made by precision casting of polypropylene with partially cast walls of bee cells and a wax layer coated on both sides (the thickness of the mediastinum is not indicated).

 Injection molding is technically difficult or impossible to obtain such a complex structure with walls less than 500 microns (the ratio of the length and width of the plate to its thickness is more than 1000).

 With such a thickness of the plastic mediastinum, the bees remove excess wax from the bottom, trying to bring its thickness to natural (100 microns) as in a wax cell, open the plastic over the entire area of the bottom. Plastic emits odors specific to it, and there are no plastic without odors, in addition, the thermal regime of the nests of bees is violated, since the bees cannot reduce the thickness of the bottom of the cell to natural (100 μm).

 When bees put such a frame into the nest of bees in a nest, they usually don’t use it, but use it only when a strong nectar bribe takes place in nature and all wax honeycombs are occupied, then the bees are forced to lay honey in this framework.

 The uterus, as a rule, avoids these frames and does not lay eggs in them. At the same time, the development of brood and the family as a whole is constrained, and the yield of marketable honey and wax is reduced. This design has not found application in beekeeping.

 The aim of the invention is to remedy these shortcomings in the development of the bee family and increase the yield of marketable honey and wax.

 The goal is achieved by the fact that in the mediastinum, consisting of a plastic plate, formed by the bottoms of honeycomb cells and coated with a wax layer on both sides, a layer of propolis is applied between the plastic and the wax layers. In addition, the plastic plate is made with a thickness of 50-100 microns. In FIG. 1 shows the proposed mediastinum; in FIG. 2 example of fixing the mediastinum in the bee frame of an alpine hive; in FIG. 3 section and an example of fixing on a wire frame; in FIG. 4 example of fixing the mediastinum in a wooden frame; in FIG. 5 enlarged section of the mediastinum with coatings.

 The mediastinum of the honeycomb consists of the bottoms of 1 cell, made on a plastic plate; holes 2 for the passage of bees, fields 3 of plastic for attaching the mediastinum in various designs of uncoated frames; plastic plate 4, layer 5 propolis layer 6 wax; bottom 7 of the bee cell; lateral walls of 8 cells (they are built by bees themselves).

 A plastic plate 4 with molded bottoms of 7 bee cells, layers of propolis 5 and layers of wax 6 form a layered structure on which the bees rebuild the side walls of cells 8 and the entire cell.

 The proposed design of the mediastinum works in the bee family as follows.

 Hive bees remove excess wax layer 6 from the bottom of the mediastinum 7 to the layer of propolis 5, the smell of propolis acts as a signal on them, they do not further deepen the cell, but polish the whole cell as a whole with propolis.

 Excess beeswax is used as a building material for the detuning of the side walls of 8 cells, which together with the bottoms form 7 bee cells. The uterus willingly sows eggs in the cells in the center of the bottom 7, covered with propolis, which blocks the smell of plastic and creates a favorable biological environment for the development of brood.

Long-term comparative use of the mediastinum of the prototype and proposed in this invention showed that on average the development of bees in the family and the collection of honey increases by 15 20%
When choosing the thickness of the plastic plate, an optimum was found in the range of 50-100 μm, which, with sufficient strength, ensures good heat transfer between the bee cells through the bottoms between the brood, which leads to the stable development of the bee family.

 In specific examples in the present invention, the plastic plate was made of polypropylene 80 μm thick, coated on both sides with propolis 1-10 μm thick and wax layers 100-150 μm.

Claims (2)

 1. Honeycomb honeycomb frame including a plastic plate coated on both sides with wax layers with cell bottoms formed on it, characterized in that under the wax layers on both sides the plate is covered with a propolis layer from one to several tens of microns thick.  2. The mediastinum cell according to claim 1, characterized in that the thickness of the plastic plate is 50 to 100 μm.

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