MOBILE PAVILION FOR YEAR-ROUND KEEPING OF BEES Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: apiculture. SUBSTANCE: pavilion comprises a running gear and a platform with bee hives. Uprights secured over the platform perimeter carry walls on their external sides. Hive bottoms have the form of air cushion boxes. Vertical shields are fastened to said air cushion boxes and form air cushions. Verandahs are arranged on the external surfaces of platform walls. Hive bodies are installed on air cushion boxes and have removable separating frames with twinned net coverings and zinc excluders between the bodies. The hives have additional bodies for keeping the upper bee colonies. Installed between the vertical shields of air cushion boxes and platform walls are tunnels for the passage of bees of the upper families. A ceiling with a netted portion and a hole for the feeder is installed in the under-roof panel. The pavilion is provided with a water-heating container mounted on the platform. The latter also has suspended panels for inoperative hive bodies, and hooks for the helicopter cable. EFFECT: improved design. 7 cl, 10 dwg