US1184506A - Brood-frame for beehives. - Google Patents

Description

G. W. BACON.

BROOD FRAME FOR BEEHIVES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23,1915.

Patented May 23, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1616.

Application filed July 23, 1915. Serial No. 41,548.

1'10 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BACON, a citizen of the United States, resident of Grand Junction, in the county of Mesa and State of Colorado, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Brood-Frames for Beehives; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, and to letters or fig arcs of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a front View of the invention as applied showing the hive. Fig. 2 is an end View of several brood frames having my invention applied thereto, the supporting strip of the hive being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33, Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a fragmentary side view partly in section, showing one of the wire hooks in engagement with a staple form device.

The object of the invention is to provide an improvement in brood frames for bee hives, designed to simplify their structure and facilitate their operation, and it consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 2, designates the outer frame or casing of a hive, and 3, a brood-frame designed to be located therein, and removable therefrom. Each brood-frame is rectangular in form and is provided with a rectangular sheet of wax 4:, which is impressed with a hexagonal conformation, such as is commonly used in providing foundation sheets or foundations, as they are called. These foundations are used by the bees in their Work of forming the wax comb, and in order to provide for the proper attachment of the wax sheet in the frame, and to secure certain advantages of operation of the brood-frame, the upper bar 5, of the frame, is made with a right angle seat 6, extending along its bot tom and side, this channel being provided with a rectangular strip 7, designed, when secured in the seat 6, to press upon the edge of a wax foundation sheet located between the edge of the channel and the side of the stri A fter the strip is placed upon the edge of the wax sheet, it is connected thereto and to the bar 5, through suitable perforations therein, by small tacks or headed pins 8.

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one of these headed pins is driven the wax sheet near each end, and if a third pin is used in the middle of the frame. The end bars 9, and the lower or bottom bar 12, of the frame, are of usual form, as is in fact the upper bar, except that it is modified to avoid undue pres sure, and to operate in connection with offset devices, whereby the brood frames are designed to be easily and exactly located in the caslng and relatively placed with the accu racy required; and whereby the removal or reintroduction of a brood frame is readily effected in the vertical plane.

The strip. 7 is not designed to be forcibly pressed against the side of the channel or seat 6, in such wise as to mash or break the edge of the wax sheet; but is of suflicient thickness to engage the surface of the wax closely, and when the headed pins 8 are secured in place the wax sheet is held securely. In this connection the tacks and strip are prevented from becoming loose by means of thick buttons 14, which are pivoted to the side of the bar 5 by suitable screws and, when in pendant or turned down position, engage the heads of the pins 8, which are located below the pivot screws of the buttons, and hold the pins and strip in position. These buttons are designed also to serve as braces or interposed means for keeping the brood-frames the proper distance apart. This distance is one-quarter of an inch, and the buttons of each frame are made with that thickness, and parallel-faced, and are designed each to be long enough to extend from its pivotal point in the bar 5 to engage the strip 7, but not below the bottom of the latter. In this way each brood-frame is separated from the adjacent one, the frame at one end of the hive being separated from the casing by a special offset or projection attached to the latter. The ends of the frame are also provided with hanger offsets projecting a fraction of an inch and engaging supporting strips 7 of a width of about one-quarter of an inch, in order to separate the frames from the walls of the hive, these ofisets being horizontal staple-form devices 15, the prongs of which are seated in the broad part of the bar 5 and in the ends thereof. These staples extend transversely of the ends of the bars 5, and each one is made with an upturned loop or bend 16, exactly in the middle of its transverse bar, which is accurately placed in the driving so Usually through that the center of gravity of the frame will be in the vertical plane of the bend 16. By means of two small wire hooks, such as are indicated at 17 any brood-frame of this kind can be readily lifted in the path of its own plane out of the hive, and in this way unnecessary disturbance of the other frames or of the bees avoided.

I claim:

1. In a brood-frame for bee hives, an upper bar cut away along its lower lateral portion to form a right angle channel, a rectangular strip seated in said channel, a wax foundation sheet having its edge between the bar and the strip, and a plurality of parallelfaced separation buttons pivoted to and projecting from the longitudinal face of the bar and engaging said strip.

Copies of this 2. In a brood-frame for bee hives, an upper bar cut away along its lower lateral-portion to form a right angle channel, a rectangular strip seated in said channel, a wax foundation sheet having its edge between the bar and strip, two or more headed pins extending through the strip and sheet into the bar, and two or more parallel-faced separation buttons pivoted to and projecting from the longitudinal face of the bar and engaging the heads of the pins.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. BACON.

Witnesses:

EDGAR HULL, J. P. FITZPATRICK.

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