Improvement in production of honey comb

Fecha de publicación: 08/02/2007
Fuente: WIPO "beekeeper"
An apparatus for facilitating the growing and production of comb honey including a frame to receive and releasably hold side-by-side in planar arrays a first plurality of cassette bases adapted to promote the production of comb honey by bees, said frame being suspended in a bee hive box in place of a conventional frame and including a web having two opposed planar surfaces, at least one of said planar surfaces being provided with means to releasably retain said cassette bases, each of said cassette bases comprising a box-like container with a bottom wall and opposed pairs of side walls defining a cavity within which comb honey can be deposited, said cassette bases being transparent and the inner side of the bottom wall of each cassette base being embossed with hexagonal patterning sized to promote the production of comb and comb honey and each of said cassette bases being adapted to be individually covered with a cassette lid and to be removed from said frame with comb honey formed within being retained intact.
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