Trends and prospects of technical support for separating beehive frames from the hive body

Abstract

Abstract Despite the active introduction of innovations, some types of routine work in apiaries continues to be done with considerable effort. The removal of the beehive frame is one such work. The frame separator consists of an upper plate, sidewalls containing protrusions, a through hole for an axis of rotation or a lower plate. The principle of operation of the proposed device is – when installing two devices on top of the upper plate of the beehive frame, each of the two shoulders of the frame is passed through the space formed by sidewalls and the lower plate, which interconnects them, or the axis of rotation, until the lower plate or the axis of rotation comes up against the outer contour of the side bar of the beehive frame. With devices installed on opposite parts of the upper bar, the beehive frame is placed in the hive body. The technical problem solved by the claimed invention is to ensure synchronous separation of the beehive frame from opposite sides of the hive body, reduce the user’s movements to remove the beehive frame from the hive to a minimum, reduce the probability of breaking the shoulders and the upper bar of the beehive frames.