. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. which is divided, as shown. When the sec- tion is folded it is placed in the block, the sheet of foundation being laid on the face of the wood, .with its edge close to the split top- bar. By closing the jointed flap on the left the upper half of the top-bar is pressed home, and fastens the sheet firmly, and once fixed it cannot give way unless the wax breaks down. A section grooved on all sides has also been brought out expressly for using with full sheets of foundation. In this the section after fold- ing, is placed—top-bar pointed upward
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. which is divided, as shown. When the sec- tion is folded it is placed in the block, the sheet of foundation being laid on the face of the wood, .with its edge close to the split top- bar. By closing the jointed flap on the left the upper half of the top-bar is pressed home, and fastens the sheet firmly, and once fixed it cannot give way unless the wax breaks down. A section grooved on all sides has also been brought out expressly for using with full sheets of foundation. In this the section after fold- ing, is placed—top-bar pointed upwards, as in fig. 9—in a bloc!i which holds it perfectly square ; the sheet of foundation, cut to the exact size, is then slipped down the groove till it rests on the bottom, when the top-bar is folded down on to it. Finally, we have the old, and with many still pre- ferred, method of fixing foun- dation by means of wax made very hot in the well-known smelter (fig. 10). No apiary is complete without one of these useful little imple- ments, and another known as the "Carlin Cutter" (fig. 11), for cutting up sheets of foundation. After fitting up a lot of the grooved sections last mentioned, we just. Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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