RU2134959C1 - Multiple-unit continuous beehive with magazines - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: apiculture. SUBSTANCE: multifunctional beehive has vertical units and horizontal membrane with bee-entrances and cover made from dark synthetic film. Pollen catcher, tray, frame with grid and electric heater are positioned on beehive bottom. Beehive is further provided with frame shoulder slots and pin receiving openings for fixing door-insert of rear wall. Ceiling is equipped with insertable board and serves feeder for supplying feed into beehive. EFFECT: wider operational capabilities and simplified construction. 4 cl, 9 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to the field of beekeeping, in particular to beehives. A well-known analogue hive is a ten-frame hive with shops, typical designs are 3.808.5-4 / A.Ya series. Kasyanov, S.Ya. Boldyrev "Ten-frame hive", g. "Beekeeping", N 1, 87, p. 11 /. The hive consists of a detachable bottom, two buildings, two shops, an arm liner, a roof and a feeding trough. In addition, it can be equipped with a horizontal diaphragm and a special bottom with anti-varroatosis device. The size of the nesting frames is 435x300 mm, of the magazine frames 435x145 mm. The main disadvantage of this hive is the complexity of dismantling and maintaining the bees.

 The prototype of the proposed construction of the hive is a baltic beehive of the type "Standard Ostrovskaya" / Rakov Yu. I. et al. "My apiary", Belgorod, 1991, pp. 89-92 /. The hive has a bottom, hulls, shops and a roof with hive frames installed in the hulls and shops. The hive cases and shops are square with internal dimensions of 375x375 mm, the cases are 240 mm high, and the shops are 140 mm. Detachable bottom, on which an anti-varroatose frame with a mesh is laid. In this hive, the bottom has a low frame space, which does not create a sufficient air cushion from below for a bee nest and does not allow placing the hive equipment necessary for servicing bees. Two stores in this hive have a height greater than the height of one building, which does not allow the use of a nesting hive frame in them and therefore makes the hive less universal.

 All currently known multi-hive hives, as more promising, need to be implemented in their design with modern scientifically-based improvements to improve hive ventilation, its individual heating, reduce the distance between bee hulls, increase the area of the honeycomb hive frame and the internal volume of the hive.

 The basis of the invention is the task of improving the design of the multi-hive hive so that it allows the execution of maintenance work for bee colonies with a slight disruption of their rhythm of work during the period of active life and a reliable wintering with minimal feed costs during their rest, as well as allowing beekeeping by intensive technologies , with the ability to conduct beekeeping in a comprehensive manner, create conditions for the existence of the bee family close to natural, that is, make the hive more universal lnym.

 The problem is solved in that the bezfaltsevy multihull beehive with shops, including the bottom, hulls, shops, a feeding trough-ceiling and a roof, placed vertically in height and hive frames placed in buildings and stores, according to the invention further comprises a horizontal diaphragm with summer holes and a cover made of a dark synthetic film, the bottom of the hive is multifunctional, in which a dust collector is mounted and a tray is placed, a frame with an anti-varroatous mesh and an electric heater, and also recesses are made under the bottom the hives of the hive frame for drying it after pumping out honey from the honeycombs and the holes for the pins to fix the door-insert of the rear wall, all the components of the hive are made of internal dimensions 380 by 380 mm, and the hive frame is made with dimensions 366x230 mm, in which the thickness of the side strips 8 mm, the bottom 5 mm, and the top 10 mm, in which the middle part in its cross section is made in the form of a trapezoidal shape with bases 25 and 12 mm, with the side planks connected to the top in a spike.

 The horizontal diaphragm is equipped with two cage inserts and interchangeable dividing lattice, a frame with a mesh and a deaf insert.

 The multifunctional feeder-ceiling is equipped with an inset board, a warming pad made of solid foam and a frame with a nomadic ventilation net.

 Between the two filling compartments of the feeding trough-ceiling, there is an insert board with three holes for the necks of liter glass jars equipped with interchangeable round frames with a grid for collecting pure propolis and blind covers to cover these openings.

 A multifunctional feeder-ceiling is always located above the nest of bees and is constantly heated by their naturally generated heat and heat of an electric heater; it also plays the role and purpose of a roof liner, which is included in the package of an analog hive. Above the two-chamber feeding trough there is an insulating cushion made of dense foam with two ventilation exhaust openings, providing a tenfold air exchange in the hive per day in winter.

 The case protects the bee colony from drafts caused by the presence of small gaps between the buildings and shops of the hive, and also protects the beehive from premature aging. Due to the accumulation of solar heat in the hive under the film, the bee family develops 2-3 weeks earlier than usual.

 The design of the hive allows you to perform almost all of the care and maintenance of bees without completely disassembling the bee nest, with the minimum permissible disturbances in the rhythm of the vital activity of bees at any time of the year.

 The internal volume of the hive, when equipped with four buildings and two stores, allows it to contain the main family with an assistant family with a total weight of more than 8 kg of bees.

 The hive has a fairly complete set, which frees the beekeeper from the manufacture of additional devices and accessories.

 The hive, more than other hive designs, meets modern requirements for the application of intensive beekeeping technologies.

 Separate details of the hive are quite light and durable, which makes it possible to transfer the hive to one person, allows women, the disabled and adolescents to beekeeping.

 Less material is used to make the hive than other hive designs. The hive is compact, takes up little space on the point and in the back of the car or trailer when transporting them.

 In FIG. 1 depicts a baleless multihull hive with shops, general view; in FIG. 2 - design of the hive frame; in FIG. 3 - design of a multifunctional bottom, front view; in FIG. 4 - the same side view; in FIG. 5 - same, top view; in FIG. 6 - the same, rear view; in FIG. 7 - design of a horizontal diaphragm with two tap holes; in FIG. 8 - multifunctional feeder-ceiling, a section along AA; in FIG. 9 - the same, top view.

 The bezfaltsovy multi-hive hive consists of a detachable multi-functional bottom 1, four buildings 2, two stores 3, a horizontal diaphragm with a notch 4, a multi-purpose feeder-ceiling 5 and a roof 6, has a height of 1518 mm.

 Case: square with internal dimensions of 380x380 mm on ten hive frames.

 Shop: manufactured in the same way as the case, but with a height of 120 mm.

 Hive frame: consists of an upper bar 7 with dimensions of 400 x 25 x 10 mm, two side planks 8 with a thickness of 8 mm, each and a lower bar 9 with dimensions of 350 x 10 x 5 mm. The side strips have permanent dividers / their width in this part is 37 mm /. The side and top trims are fastened together using spikes on the side trims and holes / sockets / in the upper truss. Framework for the store structurally do not differ from the nesting. Dimensions of the nesting frame 366x230 mm, store 366x110 mm.

 Multifunctional detachable bottom: it is a frame with a shield installed in it. The frame is made of front, rear and two side bars. The front block 10 is nailed to the ends of the side bars 11 by a quarter nails, forming a gap for the cage liner 12 from above. The rear screed block 13 is nailed to the side bars 11 from the top, forming a window for the bottom door liner 14. A pollen collector is mounted behind the cage liner, which consists of a dust collecting grate 15, a mesh 16 covering the top of the pollen collecting box 17 and a special insert 18 holding the dust collecting grate in position. The door insert 14 has at its ends one hole 19 for mounting the pins 20. A tray 21 is placed on the bottom flap through the door insert opening. An anti-varroatose net 22 is placed on top of the tray, on the bottom of which the filament of the heating device 23, the hive electric heater, is mounted. At the ends of the side bars of the bottom, recesses 24 are made under the shoulders of the hive frame, placed to dry its combs.

 Horizontal diaphragm with slots: consists of a strapping frame, two tray inserts 12, a separation grille, a frame with a ventilation mesh and a plywood insert. The external dimensions of the frame correspond to the external dimensions of the hive. The strapping frame consists of two bars 25, fastened with nails in the corresponding recesses, made from opposite sides at the ends of the bars, by two plates 26. To remove the width of the plates in the bars 25, grooves are made from the inside of them, into which two jumpers 27 are inserted, which form a window of the diaphragm 28, edged below by a lath 29. On these laths, a dividing grating, or a frame with a mesh, or a plate of plywood, inserted into the window, are supported. Two cage liners are placed on opposite sides of the diaphragm.

 Multifunctional feeding trough-ceiling: has external and internal dimensions of the hive shop. Structurally, a two-chamber feeder is placed at the bottom of the feeder-ceiling. An insulating cushion made of solid foam is placed above the feeder and has two ventilation openings grated from below by a net; a nomadic ventilation frame 30 is placed above the pillow in the quarter. Two loading chambers of the feeder are separated by an insert board 31 with three openings for the mouths of 84 mm diameter glass jars. , which rests on the slats 32. Two internal walls of the feeder 33, having dimensions of 400x40x14 mm, are tightly inserted using waterproof glue into the grooves with a depth of 10 mm, hollowed out nye in the front and rear walls of the trough. The bottom of each chamber of the feeder is two-layer, consisting of an aluminum plate with a thickness of 0.5 mm and a plate of plywood with a thickness of 4 mm, which are nailed with small nails around the perimeters of the feeder using waterproof glue.

 Inside the compartments of the feeder, aluminum partitions 34 are inserted into the gaps of the side walls. On the other hand from the inner walls, also partitions 35 made of pressed cardboard are inserted into the gaps of the side walls. On top of the support rails 36 are installed the lids of the compartments of the feeder 37, made of Plexiglas 2-3 mm thick.

 Roof: a square box with a height of 53 mm with two ventilation openings barred with mesh.

 Beehive Case: made of PC-4 polyamide film.

 To work with the hive, the roof and the feeder-ceiling are first sequentially removed. The roof is laid on the ground next to the hive with the inside up. Depending on the need, removable shops and cases are mounted on an inverted lid by sliding them along the non-baltic side so as not to injure the bees.

 With the help of a horizontal diaphragm with summers, the following operations can be performed: increase the number of families, fight swarming, create a favorable environment for replanting queens, swarms and ensure a successful wintering of nuclei.

 For keeping 2-3 families in the hive, it is necessary to lay a separation grate above the nest of the main family and put a honey case or a shop, on top of which put a second separation grate, and put a housing with bees of the auxiliary family on top of it, covered with a horizontal diaphragm with diagonals located diagonally in opposite directions, with a blank tab or frame with a grid in its window, above which to place the case with bees of the third family / layering /.

 To use the horizontal diaphragm as a bee remover, it is necessary to replace the separation grid above the main family with a frame with a nomadic grid, above the honey body / store / install a second horizontal diaphragm with a blank tab so that the bees of the auxiliary family enter only their housing, and fly out of the honey body in the opposite direction of their previous summer. After replacing the honey body with another body with sushi frames, it is necessary to restore the bees to their previous mode of operation.

If, after the end of the bribe, the horizontal diaphragm is rotated 180 ^o C, then the families will align in strength.

 To clean the pallet and anti-varroatosis net from hive debris, the talus of the Vroroa tick and the death of bees, it is necessary to remove them through the opening of the bottom door-door insert, having previously removed the pins holding the door-leaf from their nests.

 To turn on the dust collector, you need to remove the cage liner, raise the dust filter grate, fix it in the working position with a special insert and return the cage liner to its place.

 To install the honeycomb frame for drying after honey has been pumped out, it is necessary to remove the door-liner from the bottom opening, put the frame with your shoulders in the recesses under the anti-varroatosis net and close the bottom opening.

 To feed the bees with sugar syrup, you need to remove the hive's roof, an insulating pillow and pour the prepared food into one or both chambers of the feeder. To collect pure propolis, you need to enclose round frames with gratings in the windows for the necks of glass jars of the feeder's insertion board. The same frames with gratings can be used for protein feeding of bees, prepared in the form of a paste.

 In the summer, during roaming and in the heat, removing the inset board, the covers of the compartments of the feeder, the foam pillow from the feeder and ceiling, and by installing a frame with a nomadic net, ensure the maximum possible ventilation of the hive. The same must be done when pesticides are used in the summer radius of the bees, having previously closed all the hives' notches.

 The cover is put on the hive from above so that its lower edge does not fall below the level of the cage liner of the detachable bottom, and the windows / slots / coincide with the cork holes of the horizontal diaphragm.

 The introduction of a beehive in industrial production will allow to have a honey separator of smaller dimensions than those currently produced, which will save an expensive steel sheet / stainless steel / and provide certain amenities for beekeepers.

Claims (4)

 1. Bezeltsovaya multihull beehive with shops, including the bottom, hulls, shops, a feeding trough-ceiling and a roof placed vertically in height, and hive frames placed in buildings and shops, characterized in that it additionally contains a horizontal diaphragm with summer holes and a dark cover of a synthetic film, the bottom of the hive is multifunctional, in which a dust collector is mounted and a pan, a frame with an anti-varroatous net and an electric heater are installed, as well as recesses under the shoulders of the hive frame for drying after pumping out honey and holes for pins to fix the door-insert of the rear wall, all the components that make up the hive are made with internal dimensions of 380 x 380 mm, and the hive frame is made with dimensions of 366 x 230 mm with a thickness of side strips of 8 mm, lower 5 mm, and the upper 10 mm, in which the middle part in its cross section is made in the form of a trapezoidal shape with bases 25 and 12 mm, the upper bar connected to the side in a spike.  2. The hive according to claim 1 is characterized in that the horizontal diaphragm is equipped with two cage inserts and interchangeable dividing lattice, a frame with a mesh and a deaf insert.  3. The hive according to claim 1 is characterized in that the multifunctional feeder-ceiling is equipped with an insert board, an insulation pad made of solid foam, having two exhaust ventilation openings, and a frame with a nomadic ventilation grid.  4. The hive according to claims 1 and 3 is characterized in that an insert board with three holes for the necks of liter glass jars equipped with interchangeable round frames with gratings for collecting propolis and blind covers covering these openings is placed between the two bulkhead compartments of the feeding trough-ceiling.

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