RU2814230C1 - Beehive with removable grate for collecting propolis - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: agriculture; beekeeping.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the design of a beehive with a device for collecting propolis. Beehive includes a body with a notch, a saddle, a cover and frames installed in the body. In one of the walls of the housing there is a window in which the replaceable panel is located. Replaceable panel is a removable grate for collecting propolis, including a frame with strips and grooves made through, inserted vertically into the window above the lower notch of the beehive and fixed with a flat overhead latch, note here that said grooves are arranged horizontally and feature width of up to 3.5 mm.

EFFECT: high quality of the obtained propolis, with relative simplicity of manipulations with the removable beehive grate for its collection, which do not require disassembly of the beehive itself.

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Description

The invention relates to agriculture, in particular to beekeeping, and concerns the design of a hive with a device for collecting propolis.

It is well known that the openings of the lower and upper entrances of the hive are one of the places where the largest amount of propolis can be observed. Greater deposition of propolis is ensured by increased ventilation of the hives, including the installation of special liners of various designs. In an effort to limit the level of ventilation of the nest, optimizing the microclimate conditions in it, bees intensively line artificially created openings with propolis.

A hive is known that includes a bottom, one or more bodies, extensions, a device for collecting propolis and a roof. In this case, the device for collecting propolis is made in the form of ribbed plates (inserts) installed in one or all hive bodies near the inner surface of their walls, parallel to them, with a distance between the ribs of 0.33-0.5 of the height of the rib itself. The plates are finned on both sides (patent RU2032331, MPK A01K 47/00, published 04/10/1995).

The disadvantages of the known hive are: a certain complexity of installation and maintenance of ribbed inserts for collecting propolis, which, when placed inside the hive, require removal of the hive cover; as well as the accompanying anxiety of the bees themselves when manipulating the installation and removal of these internal inserts.

The closest in technical essence is a hive that includes a body with an entrance, a threshold, a lid and frames installed in the body. At least one of the walls of the hive body has a window. A replaceable panel is hingedly mounted in the window. The panel can be made in the form of one element from a set of functional elements. Functional elements are transparent glass, or a ventilation mesh, or an insert, or an additional entrance. The insert can be made of the same material as the hive body. At the same time, the expansion of the arsenal of technical means and technological capabilities of the hive is ensured. If it is necessary to orient bees to collect propolis, transparent glass is installed in the removable panel. According to the authors, bees immediately begin to cover the glass with propolis, eliminating its transparency and the penetration of light into the hive (patent RU 2501210, IPC A01K 47/00, published 12/20/2013).

However, according to Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor of the State Scientific Institution Research Institute of Beekeeping of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences V.I. Lebedev, it has been established that bees seal cracks ranging in size from 0.1 to 3.5 mm exclusively with propolis, and from 3.5 to 10 mm, as a rule, with wax, sometimes with a mixture of wax and propolis. Bees fill small gaps (0.1-3 mm) with propolis much more actively than larger ones (3-5 mm) (Lebedev, V.I. Obtaining propolis in an apiary. Journal "Beekeeping" [online periodicals] [Found 02/27/2023 ] Found in https://beejournal.ru/propolis/1249-poluchenie-propolisa-na-paseke).

The disadvantages of the known hive in connection with the above is the rather dubious statement of the authors of the invention about filling transparent glass, with a clearance of more than 10 mm (installed in a removable panel), with clean, wax-free propolis. Moreover, it is a well-known fact that heat loss from a bees' nest serves as a powerful stimulus for the collection and deposition of propolis. Blocking the through window in the wall of the hive body with transparent glass, proposed by the authors, does not significantly change the microclimate in the hive.

The problem to be solved by the claimed technical solution is to obtain high-quality (pure) propolis, with relative ease of manipulation with the hive device for collecting it.

This task is achieved due to the fact that the hive has a replaceable panel, which is a removable grid for collecting propolis, including a frame with slats and grooves made through, which is inserted vertically into a special window above the lower entrance of the hive and is fixed with a flat overhead latch. In this case, the through grooves of the removable grille are located horizontally and are made rectangular with a width of up to 3.5 mm.

The technical result of the invention is to improve the quality of the resulting propolis with relative ease of manipulation with a removable hive grid for its collection, which does not require disassembling the hive itself.

The proposed design of a hive with a removable grid for collecting propolis is illustrated by a general diagram shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.

In FIG. 1 – hive with a window for installing a removable grille.

In FIG. 2 – design option for a removable grille.

The proposed hive (Fig. 1) consists of a body 1, an entrance 2, a threshold 3, a cover 4 and frames installed in the body. On the front wall of the hive, above the entrance 2, there is a window 5 with supporting surfaces 6 for installing a removable grille. Above the window 5 there is a flat overhead latch 7.

The removable hive grid for collecting propolis (Fig. 2) is a rigid flat frame made of food-grade plastic or wood. The lattice contains: upper and lower strips 8, middle strip 9, located in parallel and forming rectangular through grooves 10. In this case, for example, the middle strip 9 in cross-section can be a triangle, and the upper and lower strips 8 in cross-section can be a rectangular trapezoid. In this case, the lattice will have rectangular through grooves 10 expanding in one direction, formed by its slats 8 and 9 (section AA in Fig. 1).

Manipulations with a removable hive grid are carried out as follows. The lattice is inserted with a face with rectangular grooves 10 into a special window 5 of the hive (Fig. 1) above the entrance 2, until the side vertical parts of the lattice frame stop in the supporting surfaces 6 of the hive window 5 and is fixed in this vertical position with a flat latch 7. In this case, through grooves 10 gratings are located horizontally. After filling the rectangular through grooves 10 (Fig. 2) with propolis, the lattice is removed in the reverse order and can be replaced with another lattice with rectangular grooves 10 unfilled with propolis or, upon completion of propolis collection, with a solid rectangular insert of a similar size.

In the case, for example, of the version of the expanding through grooves 10 of the removable grid (section A-A in Fig. 2), it is located in the window 5 of the hive (Fig. 1) so that the rectangular through grooves 10 formed by its slats 8 and 9 expand in the direction inside the hive.

Propolis is extracted in a simple traditional way: the propolised grates are removed from the hive and kept at a temperature of – 10°–20°, after which the frozen propolis is easily removed from the grate by mechanical tapping.

This hive with a removable grid for collecting propolis can be widely used to obtain high-quality propolis both in small garden plots and in large beekeeping farms.

Claims (1)

A hive that includes a body with an entrance, a threshold, a lid and frames installed in the body; in one of the walls of the body there is a window in which a removable panel is located, characterized in that the removable panel is a removable grid for collecting propolis, including a frame with slats and grooves , made through, inserted vertically into the window above the lower entrance of the hive and fixed with a flat overhead latch, while its grooves are located horizontally, made rectangular with a width of up to 3.5 mm.