Haunted by the ghost of E. B. Wedmore

[Apiarisnt]

Spotted another one:

https://www.somersetbeekeepers.org.uk/preparing-for-winter.html
" The feed holes in the crown board should be left open, and the ventilation outlets in the roof should be freed of any blockage "

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I must admit I have a copy of Wedmore's 'on the ventilation of beehives' It's handy when I get a serious bout of insomnia - clears it in a few paragraphs!
Once when reading it I realised that I would learn more looking at a blank piece of paper as most of it is just a collection of vaguely connected words.

 

[Boston Bees]

Spotted another one:

https://www.somersetbeekeepers.org.uk/preparing-for-winter.html
" The feed holes in the crown board should be left open, and the ventilation outlets in the roof should be freed of any blockage "

Muppets.

The sad thing is that a significant proportion of new beekeepers are following this advice by accident, given that a lot of wooden national hives come with holes in the crownboard (which they don't realise they are meant to block off when not feeding etc) and vents in the roof.

 

[Apiarisnt]

...) and vents in the roof.

Do you have great piles of Champagne corks lying around? Not much use for anything, I bet you are thinking. Well you are wrong:

 

[Amari]

Top insulation but not ventilation.....

 

[madasafish]

Fancy paying for a roof where extra money has been spent making holes in it - and filling them in.

Shows how antiquated some designs are.

 

[Apiarisnt]

Fancy paying for a roof where extra money has been spent making holes in it - and filling them in.

Shows how antiquated some designs are.

Then you will appreciate my wonderful new invention:



Hives without holes!

Unfortunately this may not turn out to be a great money earner for me as Section 3 Patents Act 1977 requires that:

"An invention shall be considered as involving an inventive step if, having regard to the state of the art, it is not obvious to a person skilled in the art."

a principle recently reinforced and clarified by the Supreme Court in Actavis vs ICOS: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2017-0214-judgment.pdf

 

[Murox]

Then you will appreciate my wonderful new invention:

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Hives without holes!

Unfortunately this may not turn out to be a great money earner for me as Section 3 Patents Act 1977 requires that:

"An invention shall be considered as involving an inventive step if, having regard to the state of the art, it is not obvious to a person skilled in the art."

a principle recently reinfoced and clarified by the Supreme Court in Actavis vs ICOS: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2017-0214-judgment.pdf

simply priceless.

 

[madasafish]

Then you will appreciate my wonderful new invention:

I fully understand the depth of thought ,innovation and far sightedness required to design a roof without holes. You are to be commended.

 

[pargyle]

Spotted another one:

https://www.somersetbeekeepers.org.uk/preparing-for-winter.html
" The feed holes in the crown board should be left open, and the ventilation outlets in the roof should be freed of any blockage "

There is so much mis-information in this article that it's difficult to find anything of real benefit in it - is it any wonder that some of our new beekeepers struggle to get their bees through the first winter ..

 

[madasafish]

There is so much mis-information in this article that it's difficult to find anything of real benefit in it - is it any wonder that some of our new beekeepers struggle to get their bees through the first winter ..

Quite.

KISS is obviously not a method used by the writer.