RU2657452C1 - Beehive - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: cattle breeding.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to beekeeping, in particular to equipment for keeping honey bees. Hive consists of a bottom, a lid, a hull, honeycomb frames, bottom and/or upper entrances. Hive has a maintenance shaft formed by the walls adjacent to each other three to twelve bee nests with swivel/hinged tops and mesh rear walls, which can be isolated from the maintenance shaft by removable partitions. In the bee nests, the honeycomb frames are placed, the hangers of which are fixed vertically to the outer walls of the bee nests, connected by turning mechanisms with the bottom of the hive.

EFFECT: technical result of the invention is the possibility of keeping and safely wintering up to twelve colonies of honey bees in conditions of optimal microclimate in a hive with minimal labor costs.

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Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to agriculture and is intended for breeding, keeping and winter preservation of viable colonies of honey bees.

State of the art

Known sectional-tiered, panel-hull, three-dimensionally expandable, frame-cassette device for breeding and keeping honey bees (RF patent for the invention No. 2186490, class A01K 47/00, publ. 2002.08.10), containing the bottom, on which several hives, on each of which roofs are installed.

The disadvantage of this invention is that the multiplicity of elements during assembly and disassembly complicates the maintenance of hives and increases heat loss in winter due to the presence of a large number of leaky joints between the elements.

The device B.A. is also known. Petrovsky for multi-breeding bees, consisting of a multi-section building with a roof and a base (RF patent for invention No. 2081571, class А01K 47/00, published 1997.06.20), the disadvantages of which are increased heat losses in winter due to the single-row arrangement of sections in the case hive and a significant area of the outer walls of the sections.

For the prototype of this invention, Petrov Micropaseka was selected (patent RU No. 2453110, class A01K 47/00, publ. 2012.06.20, Bull. No. 17).

The disadvantages of this invention is that the device can only be used to contain up to four colonies of bees, and also that each of the four hives with honeycombs has two outer walls, which increases the heat loss of the hives and reduces the likelihood of successful wintering of small colonies of bees without additional insulation , as well as the presence of a removable bottom does not enhance the strength of the entire device as a whole.

Disclosure of invention

The objective of the invention was to create a hive in which at the same time can live, grow and winter without significant heat loss from three to twelve colonies of honey bees, care for which can be carried out with minimal labor.

This is achieved by the fact that, in contrast to the known technical solution, the beehive, consisting of a bottom, a cover, a body, honeycombs, lower and (or) upper notches, has a technological well formed by the walls of three to twelve bee nests adjacent to each other with rotary ( hinged) tops and mesh back walls, which can be isolated from the technological well by removable partitions, with honeycombs placed in bee nests, shoulders of which are fixed vertically to the outer walls of bee nests, with togetherness turning mechanisms with the bottom of the hive, and by the fact that through the cover, above the process well, is installed condensing duct, which is located under the condensate collector.

Description of drawings

The essence of the proposed hive is illustrated in the drawings.

In FIG. 1 is a diagram of a hive in the form of a longitudinal section with a lid raised and one front wall folded into a horizontal position with honeycombs fixed to it.

In FIG. 2 shows a section BB of one bee nest.

In FIG. Figure 3 shows View A of a hive consisting of eight bee nests.

In FIG. Figure 4 shows a photograph of a beehive layout for eight bee nests without a lid.

The implementation of the invention

The hive consists of a bottom (1), a cover (2), a housing (3), honeycombs (4), lower (5) and (or) upper (6) channels, which has a technological well (7) formed by walls adjacent to each other from three to twelve bee nests (8) with rotary (folding) tops (9), and mesh rear walls (10), which can be isolated from the technological well (7) by removable partitions (11), with bee nests (8) ) honeycombs (4), the shoulders of which (12) are fixed vertically to the outer walls of the bee nests (13), connected by rotary mechanisms mi (14) with the bottom of the hive (1), and through the cover (2), above the technological well (7), a condensation pipe (15) is installed, under which there is a condensate collector (16).

If it is necessary to inspect a separate colony of bees, the lid (2) is removed from the hive, the top (9) of the bee nest (8) opens in a vertical position, the outer wall of the bee nest (13) together with the honeycombs fixed on it (4) opens in a horizontal position, which makes it possible within a few seconds to assess the condition of a single bee colony without disturbing the rest of the bee colony.

The assembly of the socket occurs in the reverse order.

In the spring-summer period, when families develop individually, the mesh back walls (10) are isolated from the technological well (7) by removable partitions (11) so that the pheromones of some queen bees do not mix throughout the hive and cause anxiety in other colonies bees.

During the wintering period, the main function of the hive is to maintain optimal temperature and humidity in its entire volume for all bee colonies, for this, removable partitions (11) are removed from the hive, which makes it possible for individual bee colonies to evenly distribute the heat they generate through the mesh back walls (10 ) and the technological well (7). Also, the presence of only one outer wall in an individual colony of bees (13), through which the heat released by the bees to the atmosphere is removed, gives all bee colonies a huge chance for a joint successful wintering.

To prevent the formation of condensate on the internal structures of the hive during the wintering period, a condensation pipe (15) is installed in the cover (2) above the technological well (7), which has a plug on top and acts as a condensation surface, since due to the protruding part above the lid (2) it has a temperature inside the hive, always lower than the temperature in the hive.

In order to prevent condensation from forming on the bottom (1) of the hive, a condensate collector (16) is installed in the process well (7), from which, if necessary, condensate can be removed using a flexible hose inserted into the condensation pipe (15) without removing the cover (2) )

In addition, the segments of the hull (3) formed by the side walls of bee nests (8) play the role of supporting and heat-insulating structures of the hive.

To expand the bee’s nests, another beehive can be installed on the hive, having previously made through holes for bees in the tops (9) of the lower hive and above it in the bottom (1) of the upper hive.

Claims (2)

1. A beehive, consisting of a bottom, a cover, a body, honeycombs, lower and / or upper notches, characterized in that it has a technological well formed by the walls adjacent to each other from three to twelve bee nests with pivoting / folding tops and mesh rear walls , which can be isolated from the technological well by removable partitions, with honeycombs placed in the bee’s nests, the shoulders of which are fixed vertically to the outer walls of the bee’s nests, connected by rotary mechanisms to the bottom of the hive. 2. A hive according to claim 1, characterized in that a condensation pipe is installed through the lid above the process well, under which a condensate collector is located.

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