FX Patent: FX-8,734
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| Bee Hive
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Patentee:
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| Orlando Mack (exact or similar names) - Gilsum, Cheshire County, NH |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Apr. 02, 1835 |
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| Listed in A List of Patents Issued by the United States, from 1790 to 1847, 1847, pgs. 3 & 494.
Issue date also listed as 22 Apr, 1835.
FX patents are fractional X patents. This patent is #8736 1/2.
Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2000 of the almost 10000 documents were recovered. This is one of the recovered patents.
This patent is in the database for reference only.
For a Bee Hive; Orlando Marks, Gilrum (Gilsum), Cheshire county, New Hampshire, April 24 (1835).
Those who have made themselves acquainted with the different modes of constructing bee-hives will perceive at once, from the nature of the following claim, that there is not any novelty whatever in the thing proposed to be done, nor do the described means of carrying the intention into effect differ in any essential particular from such as have been previously employed.
“What I claim as my invention is the mode of constructing a bee hive, with apartments in such a manner as, by the use of a slide, to shut the bees from different apartments, and thereby take out the honey at any time without killing the bees. Also, the construction of an iron hoop attached to the bottom of the hive so as to prevent the bee miller, or moth, from getting into the hive.”
The iron hoop alluded to in the latter part of the claim surrounds the hive at its lower end and constitutes the edge upon which the hive rests upon the bench, or table. As this is considered a very important thing, and, if effectual in its operation, is really so, it ought to have been distinctly explained in the drawing, as the verbal description given is not very clear. We are told that "the lower edge of the hoop must set tight down to the bench, or form, then the bees may go through the space in the hoop, and there is no chance for the bee moth, or miller, to lay his nits under the edge of the hive."
Journal of the Franklin Institute, V16, Nov., 1835, pg. 332
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