1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: Wyatt John Pettit

Pettit's Temple Beehive

92. PETTIT, WYATT JOHN, Sudbury, Suffolk. — Inventor and Manufacturer.

Temple beehive, from which the honey may be taken without destroying the bees. This beehive is represented in the annexed cut.

The construction is intended to effect the total exclusion of drone bees from the surplus, or glass hives; to give convenience for ventilation; to supply a simple method of taking glass hives when filled, together with convenience for observation; and to prevent the necessity of swarming.

Collateral beehive, possessing all the advantages of the temple hive, with the addition of a surplus-box placed collaterally, and intended for the inside of an apiary.

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