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made invertible, Mr. Heddon has felt himself com- 
pelled to abandon the hanging Langstroth frame, and 
adopt a modification of the standing form of Quinby, 
with wide ends. This frame he dovetails together, in 
the manner of section-boxes. The top and bottom 
bars are ^in. by ^in. by iS^^in., while the end pieces 
are fin.' by ifin. by 5|in. — i.e. (to preserve the before- 
mentioned bee-space), fin. shallower than the body-box 
itself, within which the length of the frame has ^in. 
play. It will be seen that the end pieces of these 
frames are ^in. wider than the top and bottom bars ; 
hence, the space between any two top bars, or bottom 
bars, will always be ^in., by which the bees pass 
freely from section to section of the hive body. To 
prevent these frames falling through the body-box, 
the inside measure of which is ^^in. greater than 
their external length, strips of tin [tr , tr\ B, 
Fig. 34) are nailed on to the lower rabbets of the 
end pieces [ep, ep). These tin strips project -fin., 
and give a resting-place for the frames which stand 
upon them. As the outside width of the body-box 
is I3in., and the thickness of the sides {sp, sp) fin., 
1 1 Jin. intervenes between the latter. Eight of the 
frames, each ifin. wide, occupy iiin. of this, so 
that the Jin. play provides the additional space re- 
quired on the outside of the outer combs. To divide 
this equally, a narrow offset {os, A), fin. thick, is 
nailed into the corner, on to the side {sp) ; against 
this the outside frame rests. Wooden thumbscrews 
{s, s. Figs. 33 and 34), that have been previously boiled 
in tallow, are now tapped into the sides, so that their 
ends work on the edges of the wide sides of the 
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