METHOD AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING APICULTURE HONEYCOMBS

• US 20100102486A1
• Filed: 02/01/2008
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Breat SL
• Original Assignee: Breat SL
• Inventors: Vidal, Carlos Ferrer
• Granted Patent: US 7,897,091 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 264/405
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 47/04 Artificial honeycombs
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 43/222 characterised by the shape of the surface
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 99/0089 Producing honeycomb structures consisting of porous ceramic ware C04B38/0006

Abstract

The method comprises differentiated separation of the strips holding the silicone cores with respect to the honeycomb produced, by simply curving one of the strips corresponding to one of the faces of the honeycomb and by progressive action of pulsed magnetic fields in the other of the strips holding the silicone cores, progressively separating the honeycomb and preventing breakages in the walls of the same. In a device equipped with an alignment of electromagnets which act on the strip bearing the elastic cores to be separated and which exert an action of pulsed magnetic fields on the same, progressively separating the strip from the honeycomb.

Claims

1. A method for the manufacture of an apiculture honeycomb, comprising:

a) feeding liquid wax into an assembly of two continuous bands of resilient silicone cores with separations between the cores to form cells and walls of the honeycomb;

b) separating the bands of silicone cores from the honeycomb, wherein;

i) a first band of silicone cores is separated from the honeycomb by simple curvature of the band away from the face of the honeycomb; and

ii) a second band of silicone cores is removed from another face of the honeycomb by the progressive action of pulsed magnetic fields on that band, thereby effecting the progressive separation of the honeycomb from the silicone cores.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the separation of the band by means of pulsed magnetic fields is carried out after the separation of the band corresponding to the opposite face of the honeycomb.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the band that receives the pulsed magnetic fields is the upper band of the honeycomb, in its zone of advance after the zone of coincidence with the lower band.

4. A device for the manufacture of apiculture honeycombs, comprising an alignment of electromagnet assemblies disposed along a path of a band of resilient cores and that exert pulsed magnetic fields on the band of resilient cores to effect progressive separation of the band of cores from the honeycomb.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the electromagnet assemblies have a central core and two lateral supports, the central core having greater separation from the band than the lateral supports in order to effect the transverse curvature of the band by the magnetic field.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the resilient band includes a laminar metal strip on the face opposed to the magnets, and wherein the silicone cores contain iron powder.