1884 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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to meet with us next winter; and I hereby earnestly 

 request that you arrange matters so that you can be 

 with us, if possible, if we are spared to see that 

 time, and we promise you shall have no such experi- 

 ence as you had at the Columbus Convention. See 

 page 88. Jonas Scholl. 



Lyon's Station, Ind., March 18, 1884. 



Friend 8., your report is just to the point. 

 Nothing would give me more pleasure than 

 to meet with you ; but I am afraid to make 

 promises so "long ahead. I suppose you 

 mean by that last sentence, that you won't 

 have intoxicating liquors sold, right under 

 where the conventiou meets. I should sup- 

 pose not, if you have a lady to preside. May 

 God bless the new departure ! 



AUTOMATIC HONEY-EXTRACTOR. 



IE send you a cut to-day of our automatic 

 honey-extractor. You may copy the de- 

 scription of it from the A. B. J. for April 3. 

 G. W. Stanley & Bro. 

 Wyoming, N. Y., April, 1881. 



We give a description of the extractor as 

 directed, as follows : 



I would like to describe my honey-cxtractor,which 

 not only takes the honey from four combs at once, 

 but also reverses or changes sides with the combs, 

 utter one side has been extracted entirely, by re- 

 versing the motion of the crank. The comb-bas- 

 kets, or pockets to hold the combs, aro made of wire 

 cloth, large enough to contain the size of the comb 

 used, with sufficient space inside so that the combs 

 may be conveniently placed in the comb-baskets, 

 without injury to the combs. 



A HGNEY-EXXltACTOK TO I'.KVKKSK Til P; COMBS 

 WHEN THE JIOTION IS REVEKSED. 



As the machine stands at rest, the comb-baskets, 

 hanging from the outside of the reel, point directly 

 toward the center. The top of the reel is made by an 

 iron cross attached to a hoop that will just revolve 

 inside the can. Midway between where the arms of 

 the cross are attached to the hoop, are fastened 

 four small metal hooks, to support the four comb- 

 baskets. The bottom of the reel is made with a 

 cross, like the top, with the exception of having a 

 croBs-piece at the end of each arm. Two holes are 



drilled through these cross-pieces near the ends, 

 three inches apart, and through those holes are pass- 

 ed the two roils of an arch, which rises three inches 

 above the cross-piece. A vertical rod passes through 

 the two crosses iit the center. The pinion to con- 

 nect with the ciiggear whi^cl at the top is placed 

 near the top of the rod with the end of the rod run- 

 ning through the pinion and into a bearing in the 

 casting that forms one of the bearings for the crank 

 shaft. The bottom of the vertical rod rests on a 

 cross-bearing at the bottom of the can. The lower 

 cross is fastenpd to the vertical shaft, by means of a 

 set screw; after which the upper cross is turned, so 

 that the hooks come directly abave the center of th© 

 arches at the bottom of the reel; the top cross is 

 now secured to the vertical shaft by another set- 

 screw. 



To make every thing secure, and also to form the 

 sides of the reel for the comb-baskets to swing 

 against, we provide as follows: Take a strong gal- 

 vanized rod, and fasten one end to the hook at the 

 top of the corner of No. 1, and the other end to the 

 bottom of corner No. 2; now take another rod and 

 run from the top of corner No." to ihe bottom of 

 corner No. 1; fasten securely ar. the ends, and at the 

 center where the two rods cross. When all sides aro 

 provided for in this way, the reel is complete. 



The comb-baskets are made to slip on to the hook 

 at the top, and at the bottom they have a double 

 crotch that fits the arch at the lower corner-. 



As the extractor stands at rest, the comb-baskets 

 all point toward the center, and the crotches rest 

 squarely against the rods of the arch at the bottom 

 corner. 



As the reel begins to turn, the comb-baskets are 

 all thrown off the vertical center, and all pass around 

 in one direction, resting on one rod of the arch, and 

 take their place against the sides of the reel. 



As the comb-baskets pass around to the sides of 

 the reel, the edge that hung next to the center will 

 be carried upward about one inch; hence, as soon 

 as the motion stops, the weight of the combs and 

 baskets carries them back again, pointing toward the 

 center. By reversing the motion, the comb-baskets 

 are carried around in the opposite direction, and the 

 honey is thrown from the other side of the combs. 

 By applying the •' brake " to the pulley near the up- 

 per end of the rod, tho motion is again stopped, and 

 the combs ag^iii swing back, pointing toward the 

 center, and the combs aro removed. 



In order to make the action of the comb-baskets 

 more rapid, we attach one end of a smnll coil spring 

 to tho bottom of the comb-basket, and the other end 

 to the rod of the arch on the same side. This holds 

 the bottoms of tho comb-baskets in place, and aids 

 in bringing them back to the center more quickly, 

 so that they will be ready to remove as soon as tho 

 motion stops. The extractor will work well without 

 the springs, but time will be saved by using them. 



The above device for reversing the combs 

 is certainly quite ingenious, friends SUuiley 

 i^ Hro. ; but I hope you will excuse me if [ 

 suggest some of the objections that occur to 

 me While 1 am about it, perhaps it may be 

 well to say. that our columns are alwa.ys 

 open to descriptions of new inventions, im- 

 plements, etc. ; and where tlie articles pos- 

 sess merit, I am quite willing their owners 

 insert advertisements in tlie same issue ; or 

 they may give prices in the reading columns, 

 M they choose. Jiut if they use our columns 



