METHOD TO MAKE MOTHER QUEEN-CELL CUPS WITH NARROWED NECK AND TEMPLATE FOR ITS REALISATION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A01K47/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to bee keeping. To make mother queen-cell cups with a narrowed neck comprising two parts connected with each other: a wax cap with a hole for seeding by a mother and passage of bees to a larva and a wax cap with a hemispheric groove at the end, a template is used. This template is made in the form of cylindrical rods with rounded ends, fixed on the rigid base. A rotary plank of a collapsible frame is placed onto rods and has holes, and its thickness is equal to the length of cylindrical rods from fixation on the rigid base to rounding. Holes of the rotary planks are arranged coaxially with cylindrical rods. To make wax cups, the rotary plank is applied onto the template with alignment of holes with hemispheric ledges on the template and is pressed to it. Molten wax is filled into holes of the planks, so that it is firmly fixed to walls of holes, and at the ends of the wax plugs the hemispheric ledges of the template are printed. The rotary plank is separated from the template. To produce wax cups, hemispheric ledges of the template and the surface of the rotary plank are dipped into the molten wax or are poured with wax. In the wax crust on each hemispheric ledge of the template they cut holes for seeding of queen-cell cups by a mother and passage of bees to a larva. The template is removed from the rotary plank, and the wax plate with wax caps is cut off the surface of the plank, for instance, with a tightened metal string, and is attached to the first part of the cups, controlling at the same time coaxiality of wax caps and hemispheric grooves at the ends of wax plugs.

EFFECT: group of inventions reduces time for making cups, simplifies technology of mother bees production.

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