Improvements in Artificial Feeding Devices for Bees.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left. 18th Sept. 1899-Accepted. 21st Oct.. 1899
Improvements in Artificial Feeding Devices for Bees.
I, JOHN KIRBY, of Rosacre, near Kirkham, in the County of Lancaster, Farm
Labourer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
Some hives adapted for the artificial feeding of bees are provided at the top
with an orifice through which the bees can enter or leave a removable com-
partment which 18 placed upon the hive and adapted to contain the artificial
food.
Now this invention has for object to provide a sumple and inexpensive con-
struction of feeding device that can be readily applied to a hive or other holder
and whereby a large number of bees can at any time have access to artificial food
held within the device and whereby fresh food can be placed therein when desired
without disturbing the bees or removing the feeding device from the hive or other
holder (hereinafter called the hive)
The improved feeding device comprises an outer box or holder open at top and
bottom and adapted to be secured on top of the hive, and an open topped food box
or container of perforated sheet material that is suitably supported within the
outer box as by a flange at its upper or outer end, and is of such dimensions that
there is sufficient room, between it and the outer box and the top of the hive over
which it is placed for bees to freely move and feed.
The outer box may conveniently be made of rectangular shape, as seen in plan,
and of wood, and the inner box may be made of similar shape but smaller of
perforated sheet metal, the top of the inner box being provided with a flange
by which it can be secured to the outer one so as to be suspended within the
same.
The flange serving to secure the food-box or container within the food box 18
or may be of perforated metal formed integral with or attached to the said food
box or container in which case it seems to allow of a sufficient ventilation of the
said feeding device The feeding device is or may be provided with a cover which
is or may be formed of a piece of waterproofed fabric, secured to one side of the
upper edge of the outer box
The inner box may be variously shaped to increase its effective surface, as for
example, by corrugating it or forming it with internally or externally or both
internally and externally projecting perforated parts.
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page_text: I, JOHN KIRBY, of Rosacie, near Kirkham, in the County of Lancaster, Farm
Labourer, 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:-
Some hives adapted for the artificial feeding of bees are provided at the top
with an orifice though which the bees can enter or leave a removable com-
partment which 18 placed upon the hive and adapted to contain the artificial
Iood,
Now this invention has for object to provide a simple and inexpensive con-
struction of feeding device that can be readily applied to a hive or other holder
and whereby a large number of bees can at any time have access to artificial food
held within the device and whereby fiesh food can be placed therein when desired
without disturbing the bees or removing the feeding device from the hive or other
holder (hereinafter called the hive).
The improved feeding device comprises an outer box or holder open at top and
bottom and adapted to be secured on top of the hive, and an open topped food box
or container of perforated sheet material that is suitably supported within the
outer box, as by a flange at its upper or outer end, and 18 of such dimensions that
there is sufficient 100m between it and the outer box and the top of the hive over
which it is placed for bees to freely move and feed
Figs 1 and 2 of the accompanying illustrative drawings are vertical sections
taken at right angles to one another showing a feeding device according to this
invention applied to the upper portion of a bee hive
119 the outer box made of rectangular shape, as seen in plan, and of wood or
like material, and 2 18 the inci or food box or container made of milar shape,
but smaller, and of perforated sheet metal, the top of the inner box being provided
with a Hange 3 by which it can be secured to the outer box 1 so as to be suspended
within the same.
The flange 3 18 or may be of perforated metal formed integral with or attached
to the said food box or containei 2, in which case it serves to allow of a sufficient
ventilation of the said feeding device The feeding device may be provided with
a cover 4 formed for example of a piece of waterproofed fabric secured to one
side of the upper edge of the outer, box 1 5 18 the upper portion of a beehive
over a hole 6 in which the improved feeding device may be suitably secured
as by screws extending through a fillet 7 on the outer box 1 and into the top of
the hive.
The inner box 2 may be variously shaped to increase its effective surface, as for
example, by coniugating it, as shown in sectional plan in Fig 3, or by forming it
with internally or externally o1 Loth internally and externally projecting per-
forated parts as shown in plan in Fig. 4 As will be obvious the box 2 instead
of being made of perforated sheet metal might be made of netted or woven wire
fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim 18.-
1 An artificial feeding device for bees comprising an outer box adapted to
be secured to a hive or the like and an open topped food box or receptacle of
perforated sheet material supported within the outer box and of such dimensions
as to leave between it and the outer box and the part of the hive to which it 18

page_text: applied, sufficient room to allow bees, to freely move and feed therein, substantially
as described with reference to the drawings
2. The combination with a hive or the like of an artificial feeding device
constructed and arranged as herein before described with reference to and shown
in Figs. 1 and 2, or modified according to Fig 3, or to Fig. 4 of the drawings
annexed.
Dated this 18th day of September 1899.
For the Applicant,
W LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C, Chartered Patent Agent.