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Here is a great gift idea for your Honey that keeps bees. Soon it will be time to harvest left over winter honey, or the first nectar flows of spring.
This harvest FLO shelf TM drain cover tool keeps ants, bees and wasps out of the honey harvest flow from either a austrailian "FLOW" or chinese "Autoframe" style hives. Even though the shape and dimensions of the two different artificial honeycomb drain tubes are different, this 3D printed accessory fits both. The drain cover tool doesn't contact the honey during gravity only harvest. This tool honey works with either recap style mason jar lids or a user modified mason jar lid.
I developed this after my first harvest where I ended up with more than a dozen bees in each honey collection container. After some fruitless searching I determined that no off the shelf plumbing elbow was available, plus any type of conventional elbow increases the flow resistance due to the increased wetted flow area, hence the harvest time could be increased, and if the comb isn't fully capped, the flow can backup enough to cause internal honey leakage in hive, even just using the drain tube alone, much less adding any flow resistance with a plumbing elbow.
This drain cover tool can be used in conjunction with vacuum assistance to speed the honey flow during initial opening, which can prevent internal flow backup, in partially capped honeycomb can result in significant honey leakage inside the hive, causing a temporary exodus of worker bees. If used with vacuum, the honey will contact the drain cover tool, so proper cleaning before and after use are recommended.
This product has a patent pending, please contact me if you are interested in manufacturing and marketing this concept under a licensing agreement.
Note that this Shapeways part has almost no porosity, is visually nearly perfect and available in different colors. A similar less visually perfect design is available on eBay, just search for "harvest FLO SHELF TM drain tube cover" on the eBay website.
This harvest FLO shelf TM drain cover tool keeps ants, bees and wasps out of the honey harvest flow from either a austrailian "FLOW" or chinese "Autoframe" style hives. Even though the shape and dimensions of the two different artificial honeycomb drain tubes are different, this 3D printed accessory fits both. The drain cover tool doesn't contact the honey during gravity only harvest. This tool honey works with either recap style mason jar lids or a user modified mason jar lid.
I developed this after my first harvest where I ended up with more than a dozen bees in each honey collection container. After some fruitless searching I determined that no off the shelf plumbing elbow was available, plus any type of conventional elbow increases the flow resistance due to the increased wetted flow area, hence the harvest time could be increased, and if the comb isn't fully capped, the flow can backup enough to cause internal honey leakage in hive, even just using the drain tube alone, much less adding any flow resistance with a plumbing elbow.
This drain cover tool can be used in conjunction with vacuum assistance to speed the honey flow during initial opening, which can prevent internal flow backup, in partially capped honeycomb can result in significant honey leakage inside the hive, causing a temporary exodus of worker bees. If used with vacuum, the honey will contact the drain cover tool, so proper cleaning before and after use are recommended.
This product has a patent pending, please contact me if you are interested in manufacturing and marketing this concept under a licensing agreement.
Note that this Shapeways part has almost no porosity, is visually nearly perfect and available in different colors. A similar less visually perfect design is available on eBay, just search for "harvest FLO SHELF TM drain tube cover" on the eBay website.
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