Beekeeping systems, apparatus, and methods
OwnerVallie Hayden McMahon, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A beekeeping apparatus includes a bottom side having an arcuate groove defined therein, the arcuate groove being sized and dimensioned to correspond to the rim of a repository; and a top side including a recessed area defined therein, the recessed area being sized and dimensioned to correspond to a beekeeping frame, and a plurality of generally rectangular openings defined through the recessed area, the rectangular openings each being sized and dimensioned to receive and retain a portion of a beekeeping frame, and collectively being sized and dimensioned to receive and retain portions of different sizes of beekeeping frames.
Claims6
A beekeeping apparatus comprising:
- (a) a bottom side having an arcuate groove defined therein, each of two ends of the arcuate groove extending through a planar face of a first side of the beekeeping apparatus at a different point and the arcuate groove being sized and dimensioned to correspond to the rim of a bucket having a generally circular cross-sectional shape such that the beekeeping apparatus can be mounted onto the rim of the bucket with the rim of the bucket received within the arcuate groove;
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- (b) a top side including a plurality of receiving slots, each of the receiving slots being defined in a recessed area of the top side of the beekeeping apparatus;
- (c) wherein each of the receiving slots of the plurality of receiving slots is sized, dimensioned, and spaced to receive a protruding portion of a beekeeping frame.
A method comprising molding a plastic beekeeping apparatus including
- (a) a bottom side having an arcuate groove defined therein, each of two ends of the arcuate groove extending through a planar face of a first side of the beekeeping apparatus at a different point and the arcuate groove being sized and dimensioned to correspond to the rim of a bucket having a generally circular cross-sectional shape such that the beekeeping apparatus can be mounted onto the rim of the bucket with the rim of the bucket received within the arcuate groove;
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- (b) a top side including a plurality of receiving slots, each of the receiving slots being defined in a recessed area of the top side of the beekeeping apparatus;
- (c) wherein each of the receiving slots of the plurality of receiving slots is sized, dimensioned, and spaced to receive a protruding portion of a beekeeping frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.