| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Honey extractor | A honey extractor is a mechanical device to extract the honey from the beeswax or honey comb. It typically works by centrifugal force, spinning the honey out from the honey comb. With this method the wax comb stays intact within a frame and can be reused by the bees. The extractors are either tangential or radial extractors depending on how the frames are put into the extractor basket. Large commercial extractors are radial. The amount of work during extraction is reduced in the radial type because the frames do not have to be turned over. Hobbyist extractors can be hand or electric motor powered. The smallest size of extractor holds two frames. The largest commercial extractor holds more than a hundred frames. (references) | ||
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| Honey extractor | Occupations | Tends machine that extracts liquid honey from combs: Places decapped honeycombs in baskets of honey-extracting machine and closes cover. Sets clock for specified time cycle and starts extractor machine to pump honey from honeycombs to drums for storage. Stops machine when time bell rings. Removes emptied honeycombs from machine and places them in vacant supers. May cut caps from honeycombs [HONEYCOMB DECAPPER (food prep., nec)]. (references) | |
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