BEEHIVE FRAME TRANSPORT CART

Fecha de publicación: 21/11/2024
Fuente: WIPO "apiculture"
Provided is a beehive frame transport cart (10) comprising a support frame (12) supporting a wheeled reservoir container (14) which defines a honey reservoir (16) with a tap (18) located at a bottom thereof. Also included is a plurality of open-bottomed frame containers (20) each configured sealingly to stack on the reservoir container (14) and/or each other, each frame container (20) defining an internal upper peripheral ledge (22) for receiving ends of beehive frames to suspend a plurality of said frames in a substantially vertical and side-by-side manner within said frame container (20). Cart (10) also includes a plurality of foraminous queen excluder plates (24) each insertable at a bottom of a stacked frame container (20), and a lid (26) configured to seal an upper stacked frame container (20), or to engage with a bottom of a frame container (20) to form a drip tray, as required, wherein a plurality of beehive frames is receivable, transportable and storable within the cart.