Patents by Inventor Herbert Drapkin

Herbert Drapkin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7077718
    Abstract: In the prior art, the full honeycombs or the foundations are made with resin and the beekeeper sprays beeswax onto the honeycomb or the foundation in order to have the bees become attracted to the resin or high density polyethylene honeycomb or foundation. The present invention involves the concept of evenly coating the plastic resin pellets with hot melted beeswax so that the coated pellets have the beeswax admixed thereon. Therefore, at the time of the molding of the plastic pellets into a foundation, a foundation with border, or honeycomb, the final molded product will have the beeswax molded therein, so that the bees will automatically be attracted to the honeycomb or the foundation so that they can automatically place their honey into the honeycomb or build the honeycomb right onto the foundation and lay their eggs, raise their brood and deposit honey into the honeycomb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Inventor: Herbert Drapkin
  • Patent number: 4374440
    Abstract: A molded plastic honeycomb formed by two substantially identical half sections, and with each half section including a front face and a back face, the front face including a plurality of regularly spaced hexagonally shaped cells extending inwardly from the front face and with each cell sloping downward at an angle substantially equal to the angle of a natural honeycomb cell and with the bottom wall of each cell formed as a truncated pyramid substantially similar to the shape of a natural honeycomb cell and with the depth of each cell substantially equal to the depth of a natural honeycomb cell, the front face also including integrally molded outwardly extending spacer portions for providing a predetermined spacing between adjacent honeycombs, and the back face including complementary locking portions for providing locking between the complementary locking portions of the back faces of two half sections to produce a single plastic honeycomb from the two half sections and with the plastic honeycomb having oppos
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1983
    Assignee: Perma-Comb Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Herbert Drapkin