The Beehive & Bee Equipment Patent Archive

The patented pursuit of the perfect hive

19th century patent

Patent drawing of a head and shoulders covered by a cross-hatched netting held out by a whalebone frame, labeled with letters a, b, c, and f, tied at the neck with a drawstring.MOSQUITO GUARD.John Haven · December 4, 1860Patent drawing showing a hooped mosquito net worn over a person's head and shoulders in Fig. 1, and a detached perspective view of the netting cylinder with hoops and tie straps in Fig. 2.IMPROVED MOSQUITO-NETJohn Zengeler · March 15, 1864Patent drawing of a wooden bee-hive shown in perspective with its hinged top and front door open, revealing stacked honey boxes and a central brood chamber with comb frames, alongside a vertical cross-section labeled with interior parts.IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESJoseph Bradt · July 3, 1866Patent drawing of a wooden bee hive shown in cross-section with upper honey boxes, a lower V-shaped angular chamber containing a partitioned moth-trap with screens and a removable drawer, plus a top view of the trap bottom.IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESJames H. Crandell · April 20, 1869Patent drawing sheet showing a wooden bee-hive with peaked roof, hinged front doors, an internal honeycomb frame assembly, a glass-sided honey box, a conical ventilator valve, and a hinged front platform, all labeled with reference letters A through M across seven numbered figures.IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVES.Alonzo E. Woodhull · December 26, 1871A patent drawing showing a cross-section of a square wooden bee-hive on four legs with an inclined bottom forming an alighting board, two honey boxes labeled L and L' on top under a peaked cap, and below it a perspective and side view of the rotating slotted top boards H and J with handle I.IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESGeorge W. Armstrong and Charles F. Gillet · March 24, 1874An exploded and sectional patent drawing of a wooden bee-hive showing the outer casing, inner brood chamber with inclined partitions, stacked honey-box cases with wire-gauze vents and pivoting buttons, and the wooden forms or formers used to assemble each part.IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESOrson Colvin · July 31, 1877Two technical line drawings show cross-section views of a wooden bee-hive with internal movable comb-frames, a lower brood section, an upper section, and a sliding drawer beneath a slotted platform near the entrance, all labeled with reference letters.IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESIsham Berry Burroughs · September 18, 1877Patent drawing of a wooden bee-hive with stacked compartments containing sliding drawers, flanked by hinged doors, and a central vertical ventilating tube topped with a cap projecting above the hive, alongside a second figure showing the double-walled outer box with an air gap.IMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVESNathaniel Zink · March 4, 1879Patent drawing of a centrifugal honey extractor showing a tall cylindrical vessel with an internal spinning basket holding wire-mesh comb frames on swinging arms, driven by a crank-operated bevel gear at the top, alongside a plan view of the six-armed rotor and a detail of one comb-holder.IMPROVEMENT IN CENTRIFUGAL HONEY-EXTRACTORS.George Warren Williams · October 7, 1879Patent drawing showing three views of a wooden box moth trap with a perforated metal tube passing through it, a shorter outer sleeve tube, and a small landing plate beneath, labeled with letters A through J indicating the box, tubes, apertures, and top.Moth-TrapRobert F. Ivey · March 29, 1881A patent drawing of a man wearing a bag-shaped mosquito-net head screen that covers his face and drapes over his shoulders and chest, held by bands at the top and neck and weighted along its lower edge, with additional detail views showing the screen detached and raised up onto a hat.HEAD-SCREENHorace Garst · February 23, 1886Patent drawing of a centrifugal honey extractor showing a cylindrical vessel with a rotating frame holding wire-mesh comb-holders, gear and sprocket-chain drive mechanism, and a crank handle for reversing rotation.CENTRIFUGAL HONEY-EXTRACTOR.Charles Wesley Metcalf · March 22, 1892Patent drawing of a man wearing a bowler hat with a wire-framed mosquito net draped from the brim, alongside detailed top views of the folding concentric wire rings and metal strap hardware that form the net's expandable frame.PORTABLE MOSQUITO-NET.Ernest Wenigmann · April 26, 1892