DEVICE FOR BEE WATERING Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC A01K53/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to agriculture, in particular to devices for bee watering. Device for bee watering consists of a casing, including racks, top and bottom shelves. Upper shelf has a hole and a water tank with a hole is installed in it. From the bottom of the shelf is fixed by a bypass mechanism, which includes an air intake channel, a spring-loaded valve and an outlet chamber with a fixed branch pipe and an adjustment valve. On the lower shelf there is a sectional battery that includes the lower and main sections mounted on each other on the stand and a funnel. Each section includes a cup with a non-slip material plate in it having a central opening and apertures along its entire surface, as well as a post with a landing flange in the upper part, a seating hole at the bottom, with a central overflow channel with a central hole in the lower part with a rim connecting the central overflow channel and the landing hole. Stand has, in the wall of the upper part of the flange, an overflow groove, an outlet opening located above the cup and communicating with the central overflow channel in its lower part, and an overflow hole located in the rack below the upper edge of the cup beads and communicating its cavity with the seating hole. Lower section has an overflow opening located at the bottom of the cup and connecting through the hole in the flange of the stand the cavity of the cup with the float chamber, in which there is a float fixed to a vertical rod passing through the central overflow channels and central openings of the sections and connected through a rocker arm with a valve. All sections are interconnected in such a way that the overflow opening of the upper section coincides with the overflow groove of the flange of the section located under it and communicates the cup cavity of the upper section with the central overflow channel of the section located under it.

EFFECT: invention provides a constant surface area of the water, reducing its overrun.

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