MULTIPLE-STOREY HIVE Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A01K47/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: multiple-storey hive includes a roof, an under-roof frame, a bottom, a box of rectangular cross-section with identical frames, a bee-entrance and a landing board, and the storeys are mounted one above the other. The hive is additionally equipped with a storey-magazine with n+1 bee-entrances, a landing board and frames, a storey-magazine with a wall height equal to 1/2h of the walls h of the wall height of the storey-magazine with frames, and a sanitary storey. The hive is assembled in the form of several modules made from blocks rectangular in cross-section. The upper module is formed as follows. In the upper storey with a landing board with bee-entrances and an under-roof frame made with overlapping the storey perimeter by 80%, the frames are not installed. A heat-insulating cushion is located under the roof, and above the under-roof frame there is a mesh overlapping 80% of the storey perimeter, on which a set of therapeutic and prophylactic herbs is placed. The storey perimeter space not overlapped by 20% forms ventilation inside the storey. Under the storey the storey-magazine with frames is installed, then the storey-magazine with the height of walls equal to 1/2h of the wall height of the storey-magazine with frames is installed. In the bottom butt of the storey-magazine with 1/2 h of the wall height a mesh is installed, overlapping the storey perimeter space by 100%, and the under-roof frame overlapping the storey perimeter space also by 100% is arranged under it. The storey-magazine with 1/2h of the wall height is intended for honey tongues formed at the most intensive honey gathering, or half-frames are installed. The lower module includes an additional storey-magazine with bee-entrances with the number of n+1, a landing board and frames. Until the upper module honeycomb is filled by honey, the bee-entrances are closed with stopper plugs. Under the storey-magazine, n+1 storeys of the type of a storey-magazine with frames are installed. In the lower part of the module, a storey which is made sanitary is installed, wherein one of the walls of the sanitary storey is fixed on hinges and made flap, and a pallet with a set of medicinal and prophylactic herbs is placed above the bottom - a pharmacy made with the possibility of sanitary extraction and cleaning. On the side walls of the storeys, mounting brackets are fixed, and locking pins are fixed at the corners of the storeys for a more stable position of the modular elements during operation.

EFFECT: improving the content of bee colonies and the conditions for expanding the bee nest, creating a habitat in the bee colonies close to a hollow, and simplifying the maintenance of bees without dismantling the nest.

2 cl, 3 dwg