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tions of the Hastings Lightning Bee 

 Escape. It is very similar in size and 

 shape to the popular Porter Escape, 

 but seems to be superior to the latter, 

 as it has four outlets or passages 

 through which the bees may escape, 

 while the Porter has but one, and it, is 

 much less liable to become clogged. 

 Both operate on similar principles. 



Fig. 1 shows the escape complete, 

 ready for the board. C is the perfor- 

 ated top, which allows free ventilation 

 from the hive to the supers. A is the 

 top opening which the bees enter on 

 leaving the supers. 



Fig. 2 shows the escape with the 

 top removed. A is an outline of top 

 entrance. B B B B are the outlets 

 from the escape to the hive. C an 

 outline of top plate; D D are side 

 walls, and E E are circular end walls. 



The ground plan shows the bees 

 passing out through the four passages 

 toward B., each bee pushing against 

 the spring as it passes out. It is im- 

 possible for them to return, there be- 

 ing only space enough for a drone to 

 leave, between the ends of E E and 

 the side walls D D, and the springs 

 hang in the center, between the above 

 mentioned walls. By simply placing 

 a suitable board, with bee space top 

 and bottom, having an escape in the 

 center, (as explained in printed direc- 

 tions which accompany each escape) 

 between the supers and the hive; the 

 escape will do the work that is most 

 dreaded, — that of harvesting the sur- 

 plus honey, with neither the taint of 

 smoke nor the capping injured, leav- 

 ing the honey in perfect condition for 

 market. It has been thoroughly test- 

 ed and is no experiment. It will 

 clear the supers in from two to four 

 hours time. One case of supers of 

 27 one-pound sections was cleared of 

 every bee in one hour and 43 minutes. 



THE PHILO SECTION FORMER & GLUER. 

 Ed. American Bee-Keeper, Dear 

 Sir: For quite a number of years 

 past, I have felt the need of a machine 

 for doing more rapid work in putting 

 together and gluing sections. I have 



made several devices for accomplish- 

 ing this, but have never been fully 

 satisfied with any of them. All of 

 those which I have heretofore invent- 

 ed were too expensive to come into 

 general use with the average bee 

 keeper, but the one I have now 

 completed, is, I think, as near 

 perfection as I can expect to 

 accomplish. My aim for the past year 

 has been for a machine that would do 

 the whole work without any hard 

 work, except filling the machine up 

 with section strips and turning a crank. 

 Everyone knows how to turn a crank, 

 and that is all that is required to 

 operate the machine. When that is 

 done, the sections are turned out all 

 folded and glued, one every two 

 seconds or thirty a minute. To give 

 you an idea of the amount of power 

 required, my boy Ernest is four years 

 old and can work the machine nicely. 



When the crank is raised to the 

 highest point, the slender board at the 

 back of the machine is pushed in, and 

 there are two little horizontal sticks 

 fastened to the end of the board that 

 push the bottom one of the section 

 strips out over the block to be folded. 

 The folding block then comes down, 

 folding the first joint, as you will see 

 in the cut. The upper part of the 

 little claws come down on the top of 

 the section, causing the lower ends to 

 turn in and bring the ends of the sec- 

 tions together. The whole block, 

 section and all, which is held up by a 

 spring, comes down until the section 

 is forced together in the V groove at 

 the bottom. The two little blocks in 

 the V groove are to make the ends of 

 the section come right so they will go 

 together easily; and while the section 

 is being pressed together, the gluer 

 comes up out of the glue and puts 

 some glue right into the groove and 

 on the end of the section where it is 

 dovetailed. Yours, etc., E. W. Philo. 



Halfmoon, N. Y., Feb. 29, 1892. 



[Mr. Philo's advt ., with a very good 

 illustration of his machine, will be 

 found elsewhere in this issue,] 



