Improvements in Bee-hives.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bee-hives.
JOHN HENRY HOWARD Builder, Apiarian & Manufacturer of Bee Keeping
Appliances, Holme, near Peterborough. I do hereby declare the nature of this.
invention to be as follows :-
A hive made of Wood, Straw, or other material, so constructed (as follows) that
Fertile Queens, Virgin Queens, Drones, & Worker Bees, may take flight from the top
of, beneath, or any part of the hive, used for brood rearing, & that none other, but the
worker bees, have access to any work of comb building, & Honey Storing, which is
wrought above, or under, the aforesaid Brood Chamber, when the Honey board
described is in use.
Construction. Brood bodies, (fitted with the British Standard Frame), roofs & floors
as the ordinary Moveable Frame, Bee-hive now in use, with moveable, side or end
entrances applied, when necessary.
Surplus Chambers. Any body or rack used for comb or Honey production is
complete in itself, & made to hold frames or sections, having a free passage, or
passages, for Queen, Drone, & Worker Bees, at end or ends, side or sides, apart &
distinct from the frames or sections, which are contained within any body or rack.
The entrance to the said frames or sections is through the Queen & Drone excluding:
portion only of the Honey Board hereinafter described.
The Honey Board, is made of wood or metal, separately or cojointly, the center
portion of which is, Queen & Drone Bee excluding. An opening along the end or
ends, side or sides of the said Honey Board, is made, or cut away, for the use of
Queen, Drone, & Worker Bees, from the Brood body, into the passage or passages of
the bodies used as Nadirs or Supers: & hence away for free flight.
Invention Claimed. Brood Bodies, Surplus bodies or racks, each in itself complete,.
with outer passage or passages. Such passage or passages apart, distinct & separate
from any frames or sections contained within the said Bodies or Racks.
Also. The distinct use of a Queen & Drone Bee excluding Honey board, under or
below the Brood Body or between any work in nadir position, such at the same time.
allowing free flight from the said brood body, to the Queen, Drone, & Worker bees,.
through such openings or passages as described in the construction, or from the top,
or under edge or edges, of any brood body, with the aforesaid, or ordinary Honey
board in use.
Dated this First day of February 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bee-hives.
near
JOHN HENRY HOWARD Builder, Apiarian & Manufacturer Holme
Peterborough. I do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The Brood body or bodies, are as now in use, worked with, or without, fixed or
moveable frames, of any size, with roof, floor & legs, as the ordinary bee hive.
To such body or bodies, the fixed or moveable entrance or entrances, as described
are applicable, to side or sides, end or ends.
Any body or rack, without, or containing frames, or sections, used for comb or
Honey Production, has the said fixed, or moveable, entrance or entrances ; through
which free passage, for Queen, Drone & Worker bees is given. For worker-bees

page_text: only, an entrance from these passages is afforded, through perforations or slots, which
exclude Queens & Drones.
Fixed or moveable body entrances. These are the same depth & length, as are the
several bodies, or chambers, with which they may be used, & are made of wood or
metal, separate or conjointly, & are so constructed (as shewn by through section A.
Fig. 1. on side B. Fig. 1.), that Queen, Drone & worker bees may use, one free &
common passage, down or up the center, the side C. Fig. 1. or sides enclosing such
passage, may be plain or slotted, or perforated for ventilation & for excluding the
Queen & Drone bees, from any surplus chamber.
Honey Board. This is made of wood or metal separate or conjointly. The center
portion of it D. Fig. 2. excludes Queens & Drones, being perforated metal or wood, T,
plain, or other shaped metal support or supports, keep the same a bee space above
the underside of the outer frame work E. E. E. E. Fig. 2 to which such are fixed.
An opening along, at side or sides, end or ends of the Honey board, is cut or
wrought as shewn by through section F. Fig. 2. for the free use of the Queen,
Drone & Worker bees, from the brood body or bodies, into the fixed or moveable
body entrances, of such as are used in nadir or super position, for surplus comb &
Honey production & thus they obtain free access to the open air. The opening or
openings cut or wrought to such Honey board, may be omitted for Honey boards above
the brood bodies, or closed with slotted or perforated wood or metal.
Porch & Exterior entrances. With the Hive bodies a detachable porch may be used,
made with a moveable bottom rail, as G. Fig. 3. such rail is the full length of Porch,
between the upright ends & is cut out on two sides, as H.I: Fig. 3, so that entrances
in several sizes & positions, from the alighting board (on floor) to the Hive may be
given, by revolving the said Bottom Rail & also by raising the Porch.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
invention & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. The fixed or moveable passages as described, & the use of the same in any body
or section rack.
2. The Honey Board as described & the distinct use of the same below or above
the Brood or any bodies, or rack, or between any other bee work in nadir or super
position.
3. The detachable Porch as described. This detachable Porch is claimed only in
combination with the invention described in the Provisional Specification.
Dated this Thirty-first day of October 1889.
JOHN HY. HOWARD.