US Patent: RE1,484
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| Improvement in bee-hives
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Patentee:
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| Lorenzo L. Langstroth (exact or similar names) - Oxford, OH |
| Manufacturer: |
| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
May 26, 1863 |
| Reissue Information: |
| Reissue of 9,300 (Oct. 05, 1852) |
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Jeff Joslin
J. B. Debeauvoy's Guide de l'apiculteur (1853 edition)
Wikipedia biography of François Huber
Wikipedia biography of L. L. Langstroth
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Description: |
| When the inventor applied for his original patent, he was not aware of the European literature on beekeeping except for Huber's book. One of the purposes of this reissue was to disclaim prior art related to the earlier work by Frenchmen Huber and Debeauvoy; those men were more interested in studying and understanding bees than they were in the practical aspects of commercial beekeeping, and the hives they developed reflect their interests.From the preamble to this reissued patent's claims: "I do not claim as my invention movable comb-frames whose tops and sides are close-fitting to each other, like the tops and sides of the Huber leaves; second, that I do not claim the separation by suitable distances from each other of the tops, sides of bottoms of movable frames, like the Debeauvoy frames of 1847, both the sides and tops are made close-fitting to the sides and tops of the case containing them; third, that I do not claim the separation by suitable distances of the sides and bottoms of movable frames, as well from each other as from the case, when, like the Debeauvoy frames of 1851, the tops of such frames are close fitting to each other; fourth, that I do not claim, broadly, constructing the tops of movable frames too narrow to furnish rooms, as the Huber and Debeauvoy tops do, both for the attachment of the combs and the necessary bee-passages between them, but confine my claim to frames having the aforesaid narrow tops, provided either that they are so arranged in the case that the spaces between these tops are not closes by slides, like those of Munn, or by any equivalent device; or that the spaces between the sides of these frames and the case are to shallow to permit the bees to fill them with combs large enough to interfere seriously with the manipulations of the frames..." |
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