Bet you didn't know so many hive types existed

[victor meldrew]

Think you know all the patented beehives ?
Think again

Check here and click on the patent numbers !

http://www.honeymoonapiaries.com/web_beekeeping/sys/Report71.htm

JW

 

[drstitson]

i had a quick browse and couldn't find the fabled WPF nuc!!!!

 

[thedeaddiplomat]

And what about all those that are NOT patented (like, it would seem, the Tickner Edwardes)?!

 

[Black Comb]

Looks like one of my ancestors patented self spacing frames in 1893, well before Hofmann in 1917.

Wonder if I'm due any money?

 

[victor meldrew]

I like the super super .
No extracting! That's got to be a bonus

JW

 

[Hughesie]

What an amazing website , I think I am going to try and make a T Wingo hive !!

 

[wojciech]

US Patents

Think you know all the patented beehives ?
Think again

Check here and click on the patent numbers !

http://www.honeymoonapiaries.com/web_beekeeping/sys/Report71.htm

JW

Of course, perusal shows that this is a list of US patents only, although it includes some overseas (European applicants). Not being familiar with Patent law, I'm not sure how, say British patents figure alongside American ones.

However, it's interesting to look at Lamgstroths early patents and also other designs for removable frame hives patented alongside his around the same time. It would be interesting to find out whether they were drawing on Dzierzon's published and translated work like Langstroth or copying Langstroths' designs.