Year: 1886

page_text: I ARTHUR WILLIAM ROLLINS of 65 Hagley Street Stourbridge in the County
of Worcester Manufacturer of Beehive and other Appliance for Bee Culture do
hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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In bee hives where it has been necessary to use supers or top boxes for the
accumulation of the honey great difficulty has been experienced in getting the bees
to take to them and to do this effectually it has been found necessary to reverse
the frames in the body which contain the combs thereby giving the cells an
inclination downwards which prevents the bees from storing any more honey
therein and compels them to carry it to the super or top box. This method has
not found much favour because the system adopted only allowed one frame to be
reversed at a time thus making it very tedious work, besides breaking up the
cluster of bees and cooling their hive and at the same time it is dangerous to the
bee keeper.
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An inner single reversible frame in an outer frame was not found to answer
because the bees propolis the one to the other.
The object of my invention is to reverse the whole of the bar frames at once no
matter what the weight may be and this I do just as easily and quickly as
reversing a single comb which is a great saving of time and labour and in order
that it may be clearly understood and more easily carried into practice I have
appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which,
Figure 1. is an elevation of an ordinary wood frame hive with the top lifted off.
The reversible box containing the comb frames is shown partially turned by
diagonal dotted lines.
Figure 2. is a plan with the top removed shewing the comb frames.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the pivot on which the reversible box turns.
Figure 4. is a side elevation of same.
Figure 5. is an arrangement for securing the locking bars and
Figure 6 is an alternative arrangement for same.
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The body of the hive A Figure 1 is mounted upon the stand B which is separate
so that the lives may be worked either on the super or doubling principal or as a
top or bottom storey, and has a loose floor board C which slides in and out between

page_text: the stand and bottom of hive with a wedge C operated by a suitable handle to
regulate the size of the entrance according to the amount of ventilation required.
On the interior of two of the sides or ends of the body are fixed the pivots D
and E which are fixed to an inner case F and worked in the bearers D¹ Figure 3
which are fixed to the body the inner case turning on them as shown by the dotted
lines in Figure 1.
The reversible case F contains the bar frames G, G, G, which are slipped in and
secured from falling out when turned over by the locking bars H, H, which are
fixed by placing one end in the irou sockets and h* the other end may be slided
under the iron hooks h³ and h or they may be secured by spring or other catches J
Figure 6 fixed on the end of the case F but I do not confine myself to the mode
of fastening so long as the locking bar or other bolt is used.
The bar frames in my hives may be just the same as those used by the
association and require no adaption or alteration whatsoever.
For reversing the bar frames it is only necessary to remove the roof K and the
floor board C and the whole of the case F and its contents will turn upon the pivots
until reversed when the super or top box is added and the floor board and roof is
replaced when the bees at once commence to store in the super or other upper box
in the most natural way possible and with certainly a minimum amount of
disturbance which is of the greatest importance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The improvements in bee hives of the main body of the store house F hung
upon the pivots D and E. and, securely locked and controlled so that the whole of
the comb frames may be at one action reversed at pleasure substantially as herein
set forth.
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