US 12,439,895 B2
Structure of a honeycomb frame
Juhani Vaara, Kerkkoo (FI)
Assigned to PARADISE HONEY OY, Kerkkoo (FI)
Appl. No. 17/791,855
Filed by PARADISE HONEY OY, Kerkkoo (FI)
PCT Filed Jan. 11, 2021, PCT No. PCT/FI2021/050013
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/140280, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. U20200006 (FI), filed on Jan. 9, 2020; and application No. U20200076 (FI), filed on Jun. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0043828 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. A01K 47/04 (2006.01); A01K 47/02 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 47/04 (2013.01) [A01K 47/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A structure of a honeycomb frame, which structure comprises:
at least an opening mechanism;
one or more cell frame and one or more cell strip placed one after the other,
each cell strip placed into a space or a groove shaped for said cell strip in the one or more cell frame, and
the one or more cell frame attached to each other by means of fastening members, and forming together a plurality of honeycombs of the honeycomb frame in a honey collection position and which the honeycomb is arranged to be switched with the help of the one or more cell strips from a honey collection position to a draining position and from the draining position to the honey collection position; and
an opening mechanism comprising an opening shaft with a longitudinal axis and a conical free end with a conical surface, said opening shaft being enabled by being pushed or simultaneously pushed and continuously rotated around said longitudinal axis, at least one first guide hole shaped to the cell frame, at least one second guide hole shaped to the cell frame, guide protrusions shaped to the cell strip, and support members of the guide protrusion arranged to function so that the cell strips can be moved from the honey collection position to the draining position by pushing the opening shaft through the at least one first guide hole while axially pushing or simultaneously pushing and continuously rotating about the longitudinal axis of the opening shaft with the opening shaft touching the guide protrusions of the cell strips so that each at least one first edge of each guide protrusion is arranged to touch the conical surface of the free end of the opening shaft due to the axial push or simultaneous push and continuous rotation of the opening shaft to thereby move each cell strip of the honeycomb frame to the draining position, one by one, and correspondingly in the structure the cell strips are arranged to be moved to the honey collection position from the draining position while by pushing or simultaneously pushing and continuously axially rotating the opening shaft through the second guide holes and by the conical surface of the free end of the opening shaft touching the due to the axial push or simultaneous push and continuous rotation of the opening shaft, at least one second edge of each guide protrusion, when the touch of the conical surface of the free end of the opening shaft to the at least one second edge of each guide protrusion and while pushing or simultaneously pushing and continuously axially rotating the opening shaft simultaneously into the cell strip is arranged to move the cell strips to the honey collection position, wherein an amount of movement of each cell strip corresponds to an amount of the axial push or simultaneous push and continuous rotation of the opening shaft with the conical free end.