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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
PHILIP WEAVER, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
BEEHIVE.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Sept. 7, 1909.
Application filed December 3, 1908. Serial No. 465,799.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, PHILIP WEAVER, a
citizen of the United States, and a resident
of Forth Worth, in the county of Tarrant
5 and State of Texas, have made certain new
and useful Improvements in Beehives, of
which the following is a specification.
This invention is an improvement in bee
hives, and has for an object among others,
10 to provide a bee hive of concrete or cement
whose walls will be thick enough to exclude
the heat and cold, and whose interior will be
large enough to receive any desired form of
honey frames and which will afford at its
15 entrance ventilating means, cleaning out
means, and means for the passage of the
bees into and out of the hive; and the inven-
tion consists in certain novel constructions
and combinations of parts as will be herein-
20 after described and claimed.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a hive embodying my invention, the
cover being raised above the body of the
hive. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sec-
25 tion of the hive, and Fig. 3 is a front eleva-
tion, partly in section.
In carrying out the invention the hive is
suitably molded in two sections, a body sec-
tion A, and a cover B, and the body. section
30 A has in its upper portion a chamber C, the
lower portion of which at C' is utilized as
the bee nest or hatchery, and is of sufficient
depth and size to fit the frames, and its
upper portion at C2 receives the honey
35 trays D.
The chamber C is open at the top and is
closed in practice by the cover B which has
a depending portion B' to fit down in the
upper end of the chamber, and the cover B
40 rests upon the upper ends of the walls of the
body A, a suitable packing or washer E of
felt, cotton flannel or other suitable fabric
being provided, as shown, to prevent the
ingress of insects. The cover projects be-
45 yond the sides of the body A as shown in
Figs. 2 and 3, and the upper side of the
cover at B2 is inclined downwardly toward
its outer edge in such manner as to shed
water.
50 Within the rear wall of the body A, I pro-
vide a food receptacle F in the form of a
pocket, open at its upper end and commu-
nicating at such end through a passage F'
with' the chamber C, to permit the bees to
55 pass from the said chamber C into and out
of the food receptacle F. In practice. thispocket is supplied with the bee food in liquid
form, and a perforated float F2, preferably
of wood, is provided to float on the top of
the food and prevent the bees from getting tc
into the liquid food, and at the same time
permitting them to have access thereto for
feeding purposes.
The bottom C2 of the chamber C inclines
downwardly toward a centrally contracted 65
inlet opening C4, which communicates with
an entrance chamber C' whose bottom C
slopes downward toward the inlet opening
C4 and whose sides C7, see Fig. 3, also con-
verge toward the opening C4. 70
The inlet chamber C opens through the
front of the hive and is supplied with a
suitable frame G in the form of a door
frame, within which are provided the lower
cleaning out door H, the ventilating door I 75
above the door H, and the entrance door J
above the ventilating door I. The door J
is hinged at its lower edge so it can be low-
ered to the dotted line position shown in
Fig. 2, to form a lighting board for the bees, e 0
being supported in this dotted line position
by the chain J'. This door J can be closed
in cold weather to prevent the bees from
wandering out and .freezing.
The ventilating door I is in the form of a 85
screen door, hinged at one side I' and oper-
ating when closed to afford ventilation of
the hive, and to prevent the passage there-
into of insects.
The lower door H is hinged at its upper 90
edge and may be opened to let the sweepings
of the bees pass out of the door.
As above suggested, the bottom C of the
inlet chamber is inclined downwardly to-
ward its outer edge to aid the bees in sweep- 95
ing the wax out of the bottom of the hive,
and upon this bottom C" for a short distance
from its lower end I place a glass plate K
embedded in the cement and operating to
prevent ants, moths, and other insects from 100
climbing into the hive.
From the foregoing it will be noticed that
I provide a bee hive having a main cham-
ber, and an entrance chamber, the upper end
of the entrance chamber communicating 105
through an inlet opening with the lower end
of the main chamber, and the bottom walls
of both said chambers inclining downwardly
so that there is a constant downward in-
clination toward the outer end of the en- 110
trance chamber, thus enabling the bees to
sweep and clean their own hives, and the933,606.
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Weaver, Phillip. Beehive, patent, September 7, 1909; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513195/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.