. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 187. [For the American Bee Journal.] The Diamond Moveable Frame Hive. Mr. Editor :—As I promised, in the Decem- ber number, to give the readers of the Journal a view of the hive I invented several years ago and patented last October, I herewith send you the electrotype. The idea first came into my mind of using a diamond shaped frame, in the summer of 1862, while a triangular shaped hive of Mr. Flanders, and noticing his claims and the ad- vantage of tipping the hive, so as to have one coiner or angle of the frame point
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 187. [For the American Bee Journal.] The Diamond Moveable Frame Hive. Mr. Editor :—As I promised, in the Decem- ber number, to give the readers of the Journal a view of the hive I invented several years ago and patented last October, I herewith send you the electrotype. The idea first came into my mind of using a diamond shaped frame, in the summer of 1862, while a triangular shaped hive of Mr. Flanders, and noticing his claims and the ad- vantage of tipping the hive, so as to have one coiner or angle of the frame point upward when prepared for winter. Acting upon the idea, I tacked the top of two of his triangular frames together, having one angle point up and ihe other down, giving it the appearance of a dia- mond shape with the bar across the middle. I fitted the frames of two hives together in that way, and then inverted the empty hive and placed it over tue frames for a cap. It gave me no place for surplus honey boxes, but it made a splendid hive for brood chamber ; and my bees did so well in it, that I improved on it iu cheapness of construction, by adopting the rectangular frame and square box or case, as you see, having the frames but partially (say two thirds) fill the hive, and leaving a space on the two upper sides of the frame under the lids or covers for super boxes. I have two* styles of rectangular frames in use. I first made the frames of three-quarter inch square strips, cutting the ends in a mitre box, so that ODe edge or angle of the frame would be against the hive, and the other would form a \ shape for comb guide, securing them at equal distancesapirt by bent wire saddles, as in the triangular frame hive of Mr. Flanders. The bees in building comb will follow down the angle of the frame, commencing at the upper part or angle, and the combs will be built straight in the frame every time, "no excep- ; I then tried the flat frames, say three- eighths or half
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