MODULAR-SECTIONAL BEE-HIVE AND SWARM-CATCHING EXTENSION Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC A01K47/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to beekeeping. The proposed bee-hive includes a bottom, a roof, walls (the rear wall being dismountable), bee-hive frame cassettes, sectional doors, a tray, a detachable mesh ceiling, a pollen trap, sectional feeders, a working module and a swarm-catching extension. The bee-hive is divided into sections with guide angle bars having holes in their horizontal plane. The cassettes have fixture elements in the lower part of their side planks in the form of dovetail or any other connections. The upper planes of the bee-hive frame planks have slanted edges; the surface of the lateral sides of the side planks in their upper part is inward-concave. The fixture planks have saw-shaped notches on their outer sides edges. The working module is a box without a front wall, with a bottom slanted forward, a detachable roof, two detachable or non-detachable crosswise laths inside with their upper sides sharpened, pockets on the outer sides designed to accommodate the bee-hive frames with lids and a slit on the inner side. The pollen catcher is a box without a bottom, with a partly meshy roof, a hole in the front wall edged with a chest on the inside, an inner horizontal mesh partition and a pollen catching diaphragm and a chest with a mesh bottom thereunder with ribs on the rear side. The swarm-catching extension is a module similar to the basic bee-hive with mesh sectional doors or a mesh roof with a hole in the bottom.

EFFECT: invention enables convenience of work with bees and improves technological effectiveness of bee-hives manufacture and beekeeping.

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