It sounds too good to be true - honey direct from the hive with just the twist of a tap.

In Canberra on Monday an Australian father and son team of inventors will reveal to the world an ingenious design they hope will spark a backyard beekeeping revolution.

Sweet success: Father and son inventors Cedar (left) and Stuart Anderson are set to crowdfund full production of their innovative hive. Credit:Elizabeth Milne

Sick of smoking their bees and dismantling hives to retrieve honey, Cedar Anderson and his father, Stuart, began working on a more efficient beehive design a decade ago from their home on the NSW north coast. After years of building and testing prototypes they are about launch a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to bring the system into full production.

The flow frames at the heart of the design fit inside a standard bee box, but unlike traditional frames contain partially formed honeycomb cells that slope down at an angle. In the hive the bees fill the cells and seal the top with wax. Once filled, the turn of a handle on the unit splits the cells in half, allowing the honey to flow down the middle and out through a pipe at the bottom. Cutaway sections on the outer box allow beekeepers to see when the transparent cells are full.