RU2148906C1 - Honey extractor - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: apiculture. SUBSTANCE: honey extractor has honey cassette. Honey is extracted from honeycombs by inertial force, which is generated, when honey cassette is reciprocating in vertical plane. While it is slowly lifted upward, it compresses springs. When springs are released, honey cassette falls down and abruptly abuts against stops at the end of reciprocating motion stroke. Honey extractor rotational speed depends upon number of teeth on gear. EFFECT: simplified construction and increased honey yield. 2 cl, 1 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to beekeeping, and more particularly to the construction of honey separators for extracting honey from honeycombs.

 In the modern beekeeping industry, to extract honey from honeycombs, a honey extractor is used, which contains cartridges for securing honeycombs with honey, a device with a drive for moving cartridges relative to a fixed base, and a container for collecting honey.

 Closest to the claimed design, selected as a prototype, is a centrifugal honey separator (see, for example, RF patent N 2053664 A 01 K 59/02 02/10/96 Bull. N 4). Depending on the location of honeycombs, honey separators are divided into two large classes: chordal honey separators, in which honeycombs are located along the chord, and radial, in which honeycombs are located along the radius.

The main disadvantages of chordial type honey extractors are:
1. Breaking cell. During rotation, the centrifugal force acts perpendicular to the middle wall of the honeycombs, as a result of this, the layers of honey located on the inside of the honeycombs press on the middle walls of the honeycombs and break them.

 2 Slow performance. In order to avoid breakage of the honeycombs, at first, part of the honey is pumped out from the outside of the honeycombs. Then the honeycomb is turned and the honey is pumped out completely on the other side. Honeycombs are rotated to their original position and complete pumping. Thus, the honeycomb is rotated twice. To do this, stop the rotation of the drum, which significantly increases the pumping time.

 3. Incomplete pumping of honey from honeycombs. Honeycombs have different weights, so when the drum rotates, vibrations occur in it that do not allow the drum to rotate at a higher speed and, as a result of this, part of the honey remains in the cells.

 The disadvantages of the radial type honey separator are, first of all, that different parts of the honeycomb are separated by different distances from the axis of rotation; the parts of the honeycomb adjacent to the outer strip rotate at a higher linear speed than those adjacent to the inner strip. And this means that honey adjacent to the outer bar is pumped out much faster than honey adjacent to the back bar. In order to somehow smooth out this negative effect, radial honey separators have to do a large diameter on a large number of honeycombs. It is very difficult to manually rotate a drum with several tens of honeycombs in it. For this, electric motors are installed on radial honey separators. From the foregoing it follows.

 1. Radial honey separators cannot be used in the field in nomadic apiaries.

 2. Radial honey separators cannot be used on small household apiaries.

 The invention aims at eliminating the breaking of honeycombs in the process of pumping honey, increasing the productivity of honey extractors, ensuring the complete pumping of honey from honeycombs, reducing the size of honey extractors and expanding the scope. These problems are solved in the design of a honey extractor containing a cassette on which at least one of the honeycombs is fixed, a device with a cassette moving drive relative to a fixed base, a honey collection container, in which a cassette moving device is made in the form of a mechanism providing translational movement of the honeycomb cassette in a plane perpendicular to the bottom of the honey extractor.

 The difference of the proposed honey separator is that the device for moving the cartridge is made in the form of a mechanism providing reciprocating movement of the cartridge with a honeycomb in a plane perpendicular to the base of the honey extractor.

 A preferred embodiment of the honey extractor design is a design in which the mechanism for reciprocating movement of the honeycomb cartridge in a plane perpendicular to the honey extractor base has a gear with protrusions and springs, respectively, for raising and lowering said cartridge and a manual drive for rotating said gear .

 The invention is illustrated by the drawing, which shows a schematic representation of a honey extractor, where honeycomb 2 with honey, a rotating gear 3, springs 4, protrusion 5, stops 6 and screws 7, the base of the honey extractor 8 are fixed on the cartridge 1.

 The given specific example does not exhaust all possible constructive variants of the invention.

 The honey extractor can be equipped with both a manual drive, and, in particular, with an electric one.

 The proposed honey extractor works as follows. Under the action of the rotating gear 3, the honeycomb rises up, compressing the springs 4. Then, having reached a certain position between the cartridge and the protrusion 5, the cartridge together with the honeycomb drops sharply down until it encounters stops 6. At this moment, two forces act on the honeycomb: gravity and force due to the spring being opened, as a result of which the honey is “shaken out” of the honeycomb cells. At the next moment, the cassette with the honeycomb rises smoothly, making reciprocating movements. The frequency of the reciprocating movements depends on the number of protrusions on the gear 3 and its rotation speed. Screws 6 regulate the amplitude of the stroke, and the spring 4 and screw 7 impact force. In addition, strictly perpendicular to the screw 7 provides the movement of the honeycomb and cassette to the base of the honey extractor.

 The tasks are achieved by the fact that to extract honey from honeycombs, they use not centrifugal force, but inertia force. The proposed honey extractor does not use the rotational movement of the drum with the honeycombs, but the reciprocating movement of the honey cartridge in the vertical plane. Moreover, the honey cartridge rises smoothly, and down it falls with a sharp blow at the end of the movement. Under the influence of inertia, honey from the honeycomb is "shaken out" to the bottom of the cartridge, and from there it flows through a strainer into a tank (not shown).

 The proposed honey separator can be effectively used in small household and mobile apiaries.

Claims (2)

 1. A honey extractor containing a cartridge on which at least one of the honeycombs is fixed, a device with a cartridge movement drive relative to a fixed base, a honey collection container, characterized in that the cartridge movement device is made in the form of a reciprocating mechanism movement of the honeycomb cartridge in a plane perpendicular to the bottom of the honey extractor.  2. The honey extractor according to claim 1, characterized in that the mechanism providing reciprocating movement of the cartridge with the honeycomb in a plane perpendicular to the base of the honey extractor has a gear with protrusions and springs, respectively serving to raise and lower said cartridge, and a manual drive for rotation of said gear.