ADVERTISEMENT. 



Patent No. 22,500, dated January 4th, 1859, was granted 

 to me for improvements in Bee Hives ; but, owing to defect- 

 ive specifications, I now believe it is inoperative, and have 

 made application to the Commissioner of Patents to be allowed 

 to surrender the same, and ask for new letters patent for the 

 same invention, to be issued for the residue of the period for 

 which the original patent was granted. 

 -The following are the claims of the amended specifications : 



What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by let- 

 ters patent, is 



1st. Adjusting the narrow comb frames to a bee hive, so 

 that they may be removed through the side or door of the 

 hive. Substantially as set forth, 



2d. Providing the comb frames with clamps for confining 

 the comb. Substantially as set forth. 



3d. A store honey box, made in sections, which are tempo- 

 rarily united, so that one or more sections, or the whole series 

 of sections, may be taken away from the hive at will, and thus 

 the honey sold by the whole box, or narrow sections of a box, 

 at the market, and thus the wants of a purchaser suited, and a 

 frame, or support for him to transport the honey in, is furnished 

 at a slight extra cost. Substantially as set forth. 



4th. The combination of an air chamber below the bottom 

 of the hive, ventilating passages, and a curtain for excluding 

 the light from the interior of the hive. Substantially as set 

 forth. 



J. S. HARBISON. 



