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Srdjan Todorovski - Tosho

Belgrade / Banatsko Plandiste stodorovski@open.telekom.rs

part 1

A Novel Beehive Frame

part 2

 

 

Fig. 7. View at the top bars of the super of the hive filled with Tosho’s frames with built combs crowded with bees.

 

 

   
Fig. 8. View at the bottom bar of the super filled with Tosho’s frames with built combs crowded with bees, in the upper part of the photo. In the bottom part of the photo there is a box with classical frames, which is used most often.

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Fig. 9. A detailed view at the top bars of Tosho’s frames. The way of combs' building and shaping of the passage between vertically common frames is seen.

 

 

 

The advantages of this frame are:

·        So called "death space" is eliminated, i.e. it is reduced to 10mm that is bee passage;

·        It enables using lower supers and frames (half-supers);

·        It enables arbitrary height of brood (multiple of a half-super height);

·        Movements of bee queen and bees are easier, because the distance between combs in vertically adjacent frames is not large;

·        Bee queen’s movement to frames without brood is easier;

·        It enables better hive ventilation because frame bars are more narrow and there are less brace combs;

·        Brood section can be as large as needed;

·        Bees overwinter better in two or more lower half-boxes because the cluster is joined together along the space between vertically placed half-frames;

·        Bee cluster achieves better connection to honey comb;

·        Splitting of brood chamber composed of several half-supers is easy and simple by taking a half-super;

·        Fast change of old comb by simply and fast replacing a super with old comb with another super with new comb or comb foundations;

·        Simple nest unblocking, similar to the former dot;

·        Easier honey sort separation;

·        Less physical (manual) strain because supers are lighter;

·        Brood section is expanded gradually;

·        It is easier to inspect hive interior;

·        It is easier to embed wire into the frame;

·        More regularly built comb;

·        Less deformation of the comb caused by high temperature;

·        Saving of materials for the building of the frame.

 

Classical bee frames can be simply replaced by Tosho’s bee frames, with adapting the size of the frame carriers or the depth of the gap in the box;

Fig. 10.

  On Fig. 10. one can see the way brace combs are built on Tosho’s beehive frame. This is due to the delay with expanding the brood section with new frames. Brace combs are built regularly on upper bars of the frame. This is not always the case with classic frames. It is to be mentioned that comb is built from bottom to up, while with classic frames, in the case of incaution of a beekeeper, building of brace combs more often starts from the hive ceiling towards the top bars. 

Fig. 11.

 

 

A brood section consisting of two LR supers with Tosho’s frames is divided into two parts, i.e. half-supers are parted. On each of these half-supers another half-super is added in order to extend the brood to the standard size. Between these two pairs of supers a Snelgrow bar is put. In the bottom brood chamber, where there was not a queen, bees made queen cells, Fig. 11. The position of a queen cell on the top bar of the frame in the bottom half - box is unusual. That position would be adequate to the middle of a standard frame. This leads us to the supposition that bees do not recognize that the comb of bottom and top frame is physically separated, so they behave as it is unique. This could be the evidence that the new frame construction really eliminates "death" space between two vertically common frames.

 

Patent Certificate