Patents Assigned to John A. Miller
  • Patent number: 4322862
    Abstract: An apparatus for feeding liquid bee food to bees includes a tank for heating and storing a bee feed liquid, a hollow, horizontally extending bee food distributor situated above the tank, a horizontally elongated, forwardly and downwardly inclined liquid guide plate situated below the distributor, openings along the bottom edge of the distributor for evenly distributing the bee feed liquid from the distributor along an elongated horizontally extending upper portion of a front face of the guide plate, a conduit for delivering heated liquid feed from the tank to the distributor, and a longitudinally extending slot in the top of the tank in position to receive surplus bee feed coming off of the bottom edge of the liquid guide plate to let the feed fall back into the tank to be recirculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Assignees: Gary J. Beuthling, John A. Miller
    Inventor: Irvin C. Beuthling