The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-09-05
A PERPETUAL MOTION PUMP.
Converting the Rolling Sea Waves Into
Power for Pumping Water.

Converttng the Rolling Sea waves Into
Power for Pumping Water.
Underneath the pier Of the Bond Wave
Power company at Ocean Grove, N. j.,
mammoth iron egg floats upon the top
of the waves. In mild weather the egg
bobs up serenely, rising to height Of
about fourteen inches above the dead
level Of the sea, but when the weather
Is rough and great rollers come rushing
In the egg rises forcefully upward five
feet or more. 1t cannot get loose, for 1t
is made fast to the pier by long, strong
arms of iron. Up from the top of the
mammoth egg u rope runs, and after 1t
has passed over pulley it stretches on
shoreward and at last enters wooden
building situated upon the beach. In
the building is n pump, and the rope is
In connection with 1t. The pumps lift
ing about 5000 gallons of water min
ute, raising it distances equivalent to the
height of the waves.
The explanation Of the apparatus and
the work it is doing is that Mr.. N. o.
Bond, whose namesake the Bond Wave
Power company is, has successfully
completed an experiment undertaken
primarily to determine if it were posi-
BILE to make the ocean, by the motion of
its waves, pump enough of itself into
Wesley lake to make that lake body
Of salt water There are people living
in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove who,
considering that the sources Of the water
of Wesley lake are in the swamp lands,
judge that the lake is to some extent
health menacing body of water, and they
have for some time wished that it might
be salted. Mr.. Bond says that he will
have no difficulty in making Lake Wes-
ley salt, and he expects to do it. He
says that he is perfectly satisfied that his
new wave machine will not only do the
work which it was especially devised to
do, but he is also assured that it will be
found valuable machine for doing
other things which need to be done eco
nomically.
He says that the machine is strong
enough to work comfortably In the
roughest weather and that it is built
with an especial view to making 1t run
with very little supervision. He says
that the wave gate which is in use as
the motive power Of the street sprink-
ling system at Ocean Park ran all through
the winter Of 1S99-90 without getting
out of order and that its operations were
not in the slightest interfered with by
the great storm, which, 1t will be re-
called, was spoken of as "the greatest
storm for thirty years." The wave egg,
Mr. Bond says, will be as little liable to
disarrangement by heavy weather as the
wave gate was.
The new machine may be used where
ever waves rise and fall, and there need
not necessarily be a pier to hold 1t to Its
work. 1t may be kept in place by piles
quite as well as by pier, for, while the
force of great wave Is immense, 1t is
not so exerted upon the egg as to give a
shock, such, for example, as the shock of
q cannon ball.
The wave egg may be made as its uses
may demand. The one in operation at
Ocean Grove has major diameter of
ten feet, minor diameter Of seven feet,
and its weight, conjoined with the arms
by which it is fastened to the pier, is
about two tons. The length of the arms
is thirty-three feet.-New York Times.