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I'm placing this on the Forum in the hope that someone has more information on this novel idea, I've been unable to find any further Links than those below.
Any additional information would be appreciated. Thanks.
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In Aspinwall's own words,
"In my present hive I employ similar brood or comb frames, and I prefer to arrange the same alternately with dummy frames that are filled in with a series of similar or parallel strips or slats. These slats may be placed in any desired direction and so close to one another as to leave between them about a bee-space, and the slats are preferably as wide as the dummy frames, and they are so close as to prevent the bees building comb in the frames, but yet at the same time allowing room for the bees to travel through the dummy frames from one comb frame to the next and in this way providing ample room for all the bees and for the increase of the bees, so as to overcome the tendency of the bees to swarm at certain periods."
Here is a Link to the Patent, the drawings are difficult to understand, but Fig. 3 appears to be a top down view of the dividers or wooden slats, between honey comb sections.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/0891585.pdf
Here is a Link to a Forum discussing the Aspinwall Hive and applying some of it's principles,
https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/vertical-slatted-rack/2481/11
The Bovard Board or Slatted Bottom Rack appears to be along the same principle, described here,
http://beesource.com/build-it-yourself/slatted-bottom-rack/
Here is a Thread on a Forum discussing side slats, slightly on the same train of thought,
http://www.beesource.com/forums/sho...-super-dimensions&highlight=FRAME+SUPER+WIDTH
By the way, just for reference:
I stumbled across this Hive after starting Thread
https://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=41172
and trying to answer my own question...
I then came across this Thread
https://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=24559
which lists the Aspinwall Hive
Any additional information would be appreciated. Thanks.
* * * * *
In Aspinwall's own words,
"In my present hive I employ similar brood or comb frames, and I prefer to arrange the same alternately with dummy frames that are filled in with a series of similar or parallel strips or slats. These slats may be placed in any desired direction and so close to one another as to leave between them about a bee-space, and the slats are preferably as wide as the dummy frames, and they are so close as to prevent the bees building comb in the frames, but yet at the same time allowing room for the bees to travel through the dummy frames from one comb frame to the next and in this way providing ample room for all the bees and for the increase of the bees, so as to overcome the tendency of the bees to swarm at certain periods."
Here is a Link to the Patent, the drawings are difficult to understand, but Fig. 3 appears to be a top down view of the dividers or wooden slats, between honey comb sections.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/0891585.pdf
Here is a Link to a Forum discussing the Aspinwall Hive and applying some of it's principles,
https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/vertical-slatted-rack/2481/11
The Bovard Board or Slatted Bottom Rack appears to be along the same principle, described here,
http://beesource.com/build-it-yourself/slatted-bottom-rack/
Here is a Thread on a Forum discussing side slats, slightly on the same train of thought,
http://www.beesource.com/forums/sho...-super-dimensions&highlight=FRAME+SUPER+WIDTH
By the way, just for reference:
I stumbled across this Hive after starting Thread
https://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=41172
and trying to answer my own question...
I then came across this Thread
https://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=24559
which lists the Aspinwall Hive