Vertically Stacked Hive Bodies Patents (Class 449/32)
  • Patent number: 11146211
    Abstract: A photovoltaic horizontal beehive system provides a horizontal beehive. The brooder box has sidewalls and a floor wall that form an interior cavity. The cavity is segregated into independent compartments through a central fixed divider, and multiple removable dividers that segregate the brooder box into a queen bee colony and a honey bee colony. The removable dividers are manipulated in the cavity to adjust the size of each compartment to accommodate population changes in the bee colonies. A lid regulates access to the interior cavity. A solar panel operates on outer surface of lid. The solar panel harnesses sunlight to generate electricity used internally and externally of the brooder box. An electrical compartment in brooder box retains electrical components, like a battery, an inverter, and a charge controller. The solar-generated electricity is used internally for operation of an internal beehive apparatus, and carried distally to operate an external electrical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventor: John B. Jacob
  • Patent number: 8814630
    Abstract: The instant invention describes a beehive constructed and arranged to contain one or more components which are assembled using minimal amounts of fastening devices. The beehive includes one or more hive bodies, such as deep hive bodies or honey super bodies preferably made of rot proof PVC board, which are designed to house or store a bee colony, bee brood, and honey. Each of the bodies is designed to contain one or more walls which are secured together to form the body structure. The bodies are constructed of a single unit structure having one or more integral hinged members that join two rigid members together, allowing the two rigid members to fold along the line of the hinge. By folding along the line of the hinge, a desired shape can be constructed and secured without the need for additional fastening devices, such as screws or nails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Inventor: Carl T. Rittberger
  • Patent number: 8801493
    Abstract: A beehive includes a column of stacked boxes which open onto each other at their tops and bottoms, with the column bearing a cap at its top and a floor at its bottom. The boxes have access ports for ingress and egress of bees, and the column is suspended above the ground on a support post which bears a pivot such that the column can be tipped from a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation for easy maintenance. Bars, frames, and/or screens may be hung within and atop the boxes to promote desired comb-building behaviors, with bees tending to build comb downwardly from higher boxes into lower boxes. At desired times, upper boxes bearing honey may be removed from the column and lower boxes bearing brood may be rotated to the top of the column so that the bees continuously propagate down the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Inventor: Richard Scott Vincent
  • Publication number: 20140134921
    Abstract: Field of use: The invention relates to beekeeping, in particular to beehive designs. The essence of the invention: A right-angled opening is formed in the bottom of a multi-unit beehive, which has larger and smaller housings combined into the same frame, in which opening a filled smaller housing can be mounted, and a brood nest is further expanded by filling a larger housing with the required number of frames. The technical result: An improvement of the expansion conditions of the bee nest by it not being necessary to completely dismantle the small housing and by it being possible to add the required number of frames for the expansion of a larger housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Iurii Silvestrovych Dron
  • Publication number: 20110312244
    Abstract: A beehive includes a column of stacked boxes which open onto each other at their tops and bottoms, with the column bearing a cap at its top and a floor at its bottom. The boxes have access ports for ingress and egress of bees, and the column is suspended above the ground on a support post which bears a pivot such that the column can be tipped from a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation for easy maintenance. Bars, frames, and/or screens may be hung within and atop the boxes to promote desired comb-building behaviors, with bees tending to build comb downwardly from higher boxes into lower boxes. At desired times, upper boxes bearing honey may be removed from the column and lower boxes bearing brood may be rotated to the top of the column so that the bees continuously propagate down the column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventor: Richard Scott Vincent
  • Patent number: 4981458
    Abstract: Bees are maintained in a hive complex which maintains multiple clusters of bees. The purpose of the complex is twofold: queen rearing and comb honey production. This hive allows for six compartments, each with its own entrance when used as a single story unit for queen rearing. When used for comb honey production, the first hive body can be converted to four compartments and succeeding hive bodies also divided into four compartments can then be stacked upon the first to provide additional brood space or to produce comb honey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Inventor: Michael Johnston