Apiary tool with lever cam for vertical removal and transport of a bee frame
OwnerNicholas Andrew Elpelinventor
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Abstract
An apiary tool for breaking free and vertically lifting, removing, inspecting and transporting a frame from a bee hive box. The apiary tool having one or more handles, a cross member and one or more lever cams, where a lever cam includes a cam that slides underneath a bee hive frame top bar and an arcuate rolling surface. Rotation of a handle providing dual action that forces the arcuate rolling surface to hold down an adjacent frame while the lever cam pushes upward on the desired frame.
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An apiary tool for vertically lifting a frame from a bee box comprising:
- a cross member that is elongate and has a central axis of rotation in an elongate direction,
- a first handle and a second handle,
- wherein the cross member extends between and is connected perpendicular to the first handle and the second handle, the cross member longer than the bee box in a horizontal direction parallel to the frame, and
- a lever cam, where the lever cam is attached to and crosswise to the cross member and in between the first handle and the second handle, and
- wherein the lever cam rotates with the cross member about the central axis of rotation, and
- wherein the first handle and the second handle guide the apiary tool onto the bee box locating the first handle and the second handle outside opposite walls of the bee box, and the lever cam extending inside the bee box, and
- wherein the apiary tool lifts upward on the frame while holding down an adjacent frame when the first handle and the second handle are rotated about said central axis of rotation.
An apiary tool for vertically lifting a frame having a top bar from a bee box having a top bar resting ledge, comprising:
- a cross member that is elongate and has a central axis of rotation in the elongate direction,
- a first lever cam and a second lever cam,
- a first handle and a second handle, and
- wherein the cross member is longer than the frame top bar and is connected to the first handle and the second handle and extends there-between, and
- wherein the first lever cam and the second lever cam are attached to the cross member in space spaced apart relationship and rotate with the cross member about the central axis of rotation, and
- wherein the first lever cam has a cam with a gliding surface that extends below the top bar resting ledge, the gliding surface between a first point and a second point, second point further from the central axis of rotation than the first point, and
- wherein rotation of the first handle causes the first lever cam to slide the frame top bar from the first point to the second point when lifting the frame, and
- wherein the first lever cam and the second lever cam are capable of pushing upward on the frame in the bee box when the first handle and the second handle are rotated about said central axis of rotation.
An apiary tool for lifting a frame having a top bar from a bee hive having a top bar resting ledge, comprising:
- an elongate handle having opposite ends,
- a cross member attached to the elongate handle proximate one of the opposite ends and perpendicular thereto, and
- a lever cam attached to the cross member crosswise thereto and spaced from the elongate handle, the lever cam having a cam with a gliding surface, the cam gliding surface between a first point and a second point on the lever cam, and where the second point is further from the cross member than the first point, and
- wherein the cam is sized to slide between the frame and an adjacent frame in the bee hive and underneath the top bar of the frame below the top bar resting ledge when the cross member slides onto the bee hive, and
- wherein rotating the elongate handle rotates the cross member and the lever cam causing the cam gliding surface to slide the top bar from the first point to the second point, thereby lifting the frame.
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