RU2303351C2 - Bee feeder - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: apiculture, in particular, bee feeding technique.

SUBSTANCE: bee feeder has bee feeding box and feed stock reservoir. Feed stock reservoir is separated from bee feeding box and is positioned beyond hive. Bee feeding box is positioned on bottom within hive. Bee feeding box is divided into two chambers: first chamber being open for bees and second chamber being closed and adapted for directing feed into first chamber. Feeder box chambers are separated by partition equipped with openings having diameter of 2 mm and arranged at height h=8-10 mm from box floor. Closed chamber of box is connected through pipeline to hermetically sealed reservoir for feed stock.

EFFECT: provision for creating advantageous conditions for bee feeding and increased efficiency of bee feeder.

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Description

The invention relates to devices for beekeeping.

Closest to the invention in terms of technical nature and purpose is a KPCH feeder manufactured by the Beekeeping Inventory Plant of Kursk. The feeder consists of a box from which the bees take liquid feed, and a container for the supply of feed. The disadvantage of this feeder is that it is installed above the ceiling of a bee family, which causes a violation of its microclimate.

The purpose of the invention is the creation of favorable conditions for feeding bees, contributing to an increase in labor productivity in beekeeping.

This goal is achieved in that the capacity for the supply of feed is separated from the feed box and located outside the hive, and the feed box is installed in the hive at the bottom; the box for feeding bees is divided into two chambers: the first is an open for access to bees, the second is a closed chamber that serves to feed the first; the chambers of the feeder box are separated by a partition having holes with a diameter of 2 mm and located at a height of h = 8-10 mm from the floor of the box; the closed chamber of the box is connected by a pipeline to a hermetically sealed container for food supply.

Figure 1 is a front view of the feeder;

figure 2 is a view along aa;

figure 3 is a view along BB;

figure 4 is a cross section along CC;

figure 5 is a view of the hive with the installed feeder;

figure 6 is a cross section on DD.

The bee feeder consists of a box 1, a container for food supply 2 and a connecting tube 3. The container 2 has two nozzles with screw thread: the top 4 for feeding the feed, the bottom 5 for connecting with the tube 3. A cap is screwed on the filler pipe 4 6. To connect the tank 2 and tube 3, a sleeve 7 is screwed onto the pipe 5. A plug stop valve is installed on the tube 8. The feeder box 1 is divided by a partition 9 into an open chamber 10 and a closed chamber 11. There are holes 12 with a diameter of 2 mm in the partition 9 located over the entire height h = 8-10 mm from p Box ol 1. An open chamber 10, accessible to bees, is provided with a raft 13 of 1-2 mm thick and having openings with a diameter of 2 mm. The raft 13 is located at a height h above the bottom of the open chamber chamber 1. In the open chamber 9 there is a pit 14 with a width of 10 mm, which serves to drain its bottom. There is no access for bees to the closed chamber 11. The feeder is installed at the front wall of the hive 15. The box of the feeder 1 is inserted until it stops 16 into the hole made in the front wall of the hive, and the bottom of which is at the bottom of the hive. The hole for the box 1 should be located at a distance L of at least 50 mm from the notch. The height of the box N = 20-25 mm.

Feeding bees using a feeder is as follows. When the feeder is assembled and secured to the wall of the hive, the cork shut-off valve 8 closes the tube 3. The feed is poured into the container 2 and hermetically closed with the lid 6. Through the open cork shut-off valve 8, the feed flows into the closed chamber 11, and then flows through the openings 12 into open chamber 10 and stops at level h. Bees, settled on a raft 13, feed is taken through its openings. A constant level of feed in the open chamber 10 is supported by the equality of atmospheric pressure and gravity of the liquid feed column and air pressure in the tank 2. As the bees take the food from the feeder, the feed that has leaked from the tank 2 is replaced by air. Through the same holes 12, the feed enters from the closed chamber 11 into the open 10, and air enters from the atmosphere into the closed chamber 11 and then into the container 2.

Claims (1)

A bee feeder having a box for feeding bees and a container for food supply, characterized in that the container for supplying food is separated from the feeding box and located outside the hive, and the feeding box is installed in the hive at the bottom, the feeding box for bees is divided into two chambers : the first is an open for access to bees, the second is a closed chamber that serves to feed the first, the chambers of the feeder box are separated by a partition having holes with a diameter of 2 mm and located at a height of h = 8-10 mm from the floor of the box, the closed box of the box is connected by piping with a hermetically sealed container for food supply.

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