RU2470510C1 - Dismountable cassette pavilion for year-round maintenance of bees (srp-1) - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to agriculture, namely, to beekeeping. The proposed cassette pavilion for year-round maintenance of bees consists of sections having compartments with sliding cassettes for honeycomb frames. Each section is formed by a set of individual parts, which includes a floor, vertical racks, side walls with entrances for the passage of bees, a roof, the longitudinal and transverse struts cramps to connect and strengthen the longitudinal and transverse stiffness of the pavilion. Every detail of the set is made with the ability of dismountable connection with the details attached to it. The vertical racks are protrude by width outside the pavilion and form outside bearing ribs for mounting flight boards and hive entrance blocks and eliminating wandering of bees. On the ends of the pavilion the door panels and end insulants are mounted.

EFFECT: invention increases the convenience of assembly-disassembly of the pavilion, transportation, expands the range of pavilions for maintenance of bees.

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Description

The invention relates to beekeeping as an agricultural field and relates to the construction of a pavilion for year-round keeping of bees.

Known cassette pavilions, which represent a room divided into sections. In each section there are two - on the right and on the left - compartments in which cassettes with honeycomb frames are placed. Any cartridge can be pulled out of the compartment and processed independently of the others. In the working position, the cassettes are pressed against the side walls of the pavilion, in which there are slots for the bees to exit. Keeping bees in cassette pavilions is the most economically advantageous, since it eliminates the need for the construction of most business facilities, such as winter huts, storage facilities, etc., significantly reduces the area of both stationary and mobile apiaries, and therefore facilitates the selection of sites for this and reduces rent or land and other taxes, greatly simplifies the maintenance of bees and the fight against their diseases, allows you to apply the most advanced methods of beekeeping and uchat high yield of marketable honey from each bee colony. Especially advantageous are the cassette pavilions for the nomad apiary, since in addition to the listed advantages, many nomad operations, in particular loading and unloading hives and mounting them on a vehicle, are also excluded. Cassette pavilions appeared a long time ago and many designs were proposed. The most advanced are the designs of S.F.Krivoshey described in the journal Beekeeping No. 11 for 1990 with the addition of the description in No. 10 for 1993, the Nomad Pavilion (Beekeeping, No. 1, 2001) and the Berendey Pavilion (Beekeeping No. 10, 2009). They differ in external dimensions and the number of sections, the number of cassettes in the compartments, the number of frames in the cassettes, the placement of bee colonies in cassettes, the methods of supplying syrup to bees and the methods of heating the pavilions. These differences do not concern the basic properties of cassette pavilions, therefore, do not reduce their advantages. But all designs have the following significant disadvantages.

The pavilions of each design are made of a certain size and the customer, having received the pavilion, cannot change it. If the size of the customer’s vehicle does not correspond to the size of the pavilion, then when organizing a nomad apiary, it will not be possible to use the pavilion, or the vehicle will be used inefficiently. Somewhat less, but this creates an inconvenience when organizing a stationary apiary.

Large costs compared with the price of the pavilion itself are required to transport the pavilion from the manufacturer to the customer over a long distance, since the pavilion is a rather bulky structure. This limits the distribution of pavilions.

The designs of the pavilions are not suitable for mass mass production, so they have a high cost and, therefore, a long payback period.

The present invention is aimed at solving the problem of creating a collapsible cassette pavilion for year-round keeping of bees, adapted for mass serial production and devoid of the above-mentioned design deficiencies of known pavilions.

The technical result that is achieved by using the claimed invention is to increase the convenience of assembly-disassembly of the pavilion, to increase the convenience of transportation, to provide the possibility of assembling pavilions of any size, reducing the cost of the pavilion.

The invention is illustrated by drawings.

Figure 1 shows the design of the pavilion and the relative position of the parts during assembly for the case if it consisted of one section.

Figure 2 - fastening floors and racks

Figure 3 - fastening of the rack and side walls.

Figure 4 - connection of the rack, longitudinal and transverse scrapers and roof.

Figure 5 - fastening of the door panel.

The set of each section of the proposed pavilion consists of floor 1, two (right and left) vertical racks 2, two side walls 3 and a roof 5. The racks of the next section are simultaneously part of the previous section, forming compartments for cassettes. Racks 2 have support bars 4 at the bottom of both sides, which enter grooves on the lateral longitudinal sides of floors 1. Racks 2 are made of a wooden plate or stamped from reinforced polyurethane.

Each rack 2 tightening rods 21 (figure 2) on both lower edges is pressed simultaneously to both adjacent floors 1. Thus, the floors of 1 sections are combined into a single floor of the pavilion. On both sides of the racks 2 there are horizontal strips 10 (Fig. 1), on which the cassettes 14 and pallets 13 are hung and move along. There are also slots 11 for latches securing the cassettes 14 in the compartments. Latches also serve as handles for extending cartridges and pallets. It seems optimal to place seven cassettes 14 in the compartments, each with ten frames 230 mm high, two pallets 13 and a nomadic net 15. But this is not necessary. Cassettes 14 are assembled from four plates and can be made on any frame from the framework of Roger Delon to Ukrainian narrow.

Pallets 13 have anti-varroatous nets and open inside the pavilion. Pallets 13 form a frame space and facilitate the organization of individual heating of each family during unstable spring weather, reducing energy consumption by an order of magnitude compared to heating all the air inside the pavilion. Two pallets 13 allow, by the end of spring development, to divide the wintering family into brood and barren parts, which makes it possible to almost completely destroy the varroa tick, prevent swarming and ensure the annual change of queens. Before the main medical gathering, both parts are usually combined into a powerful honey family. The two lower cassettes 14 are insulated with an additionally mounted board, which can be removed, rotated to a horizontal position and used as a table when extending any cassette, leaning in front on the latch pins and on the back on an inclined stop.

Vertical bars 9 on racks 2 serve on one side to support the cassettes 14, and on the other, to support the side walls 3. The racks 2 extend beyond the pavilion (Fig. 3) and form vertical rims from the outside that limit the walk of the bees. To these flanges are attached landing boards and gate valves. The side walls 3 and the roof 5 are made of a metal sheet on which a foam layer is applied with a thickness of at least 40 mm. The edges of the side walls 3 and the roof 5 are bent at a right angle, holes are made in them for fastening the walls and the roof with the posts 2. The grooves for the passage of bees are cut in the side walls 3. To reduce the wandering of bees, the side walls 3 are painted in different colors.

Cross braces 6 using plates 22 connect the upper parts of both racks 2, increase the lateral stiffness of the pavilion and together with the racks 2 serve to secure the roof (Fig. 4). The plates 22, located at both ends of the longitudinal clamps 7, are superimposed on both sides of the joints of the transverse clamp 6 with the uprights 2 (Fig. 4), thereby ensuring the strength of the joints using a bolted connection. The longitudinal clamps 7 are made of a metal corner, together with the upper support strips 8 (Fig. 1) of the side walls 3 increase the longitudinal stiffness of the pavilion and can be used to place a crane beam and its movement along the entire pavilion.

Both ends of the pavilion are closed by door panels 16, opening windows 18 are inserted into the door 17, tightened inside with a metal mesh, and in winter, also closed from the inside by a heater. At the bottom of each door there are two ventilation passages 19, which can be covered with shields from the outside. At the top of the door panel 16 there are two electricity inputs - 220 and 12 (24, 36) B - and a passage into which a knee-shaped ventilation pipe is inserted.

In addition to door panels 16, the ends of the pavilion are closed by end insulation 20, which, like the side walls 3, are metal sheets with a layer of foam. End heaters 20 are mounted on one side to the uprights 2 with the same bolts as the side walls 3, and on the other, with screws to the door panel 16.

All places of connection with the stands of 2 roofs 5, door panels 16 and end insulation 20 are covered from above with moisture-proof covers 12, which exclude the penetration of rainfall into the pavilion. To exclude moisture settling inside the pavilion, all metal parts located outside do not penetrate inward, and metal parts inside do not go outside. The pavilion is illuminated through windows and electric lamps.

The design of the proposed pavilion provides that each section is assembled from a small number of simple parts. All sections consist of identical parts. The dimensions and weight of the parts are such that one person could lift any part and assemble. The pavilion is assembled at the place of its use and is carried out by placing floor 1 on a transport or stationary platform, attaching racks 2 and side walls 3 to the floor 1, connecting the racks 2 with a transverse scraper 6 using longitudinal brackets 7, fixing the roof 5 to the walls 3 and racks 2. Cassettes 14 and pallets 13 are assembled from four plates, fastened with screws, and inserted into the corresponding slots of the compartments. Thus, the assembly does not require the use of complex technological processes: welding, cutting, gluing, bending, etc. and performed using a simple tool. The number of sections in the pavilion can be any and is determined for the nomadic apiary by the size of the vehicle, for a stationary apiary by the size of the site, its topography and the appropriate number of bee colonies in this hospital. The pavilion is delivered to the customer in the form of a set of packaged parts, and the permissible packing density is such that parts of more than 30 sections are placed in a 5-ton railway container, from which one or more pavilions with a total length of about 15 m are assembled, in which at least 60 two-uterine or 120 single-parent families, depending on the methods of beekeeping used. The pavilion can be used to receive any product of the bee family: honey, propolis, pollen, royal jelly, drone larvae, etc. Dividing the cassettes with vertical and horizontal partitions into nuclei, you can engage in the removal of uterus.

Claims (1)

A collapsible cassette pavilion for year-round keeping of bees, characterized in that it consists of sections having compartments with drawers for honeycomb frames, each section being formed by a set of separate parts, including: floor, vertical racks, side walls with slots for passage of bees , roof, longitudinal and transverse fasteners for connecting racks and reinforcing the longitudinal and lateral stiffness of the pavilion, each of the parts of the specified set is made with the possibility of collapsible connection with the butt by parts being drawn to it, and the racks extend wide outside the pavilion and form flanges outside for attaching landing boards and gate valves and eliminating the bees' wandering, while there are door panels and end insulation on the ends of the pavilion.

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