The Dickinson press., 1890-09-06
A PERPETUAL MOTION PUMP.
Converting the Rolling Sea Waves Int
Power for Pumping Water.

Converting the Rolling Sea Waves Into
Power for Pumping Water.
Underneath the pier of the Bond Wase
Power company at Ocean Grove, n. j.,
q mammoth iron egg floats upon the top
Of tho waves. In mild weather tho egg
bobs up sercnely, rising to a height Of
about fourteen inches above the dead
level of the sea, but when the weather
is rough and great rollers come rushing
in tho egg rises forcefully upward five
feet or more. It cannot get loose, for it
is made fast to the pier by long, strong
arms of iron. Up from the top of the
mammoth egg n rope runs, and after it
has passed over q pulley it stretches. on
shoreward, and at last enters a wooden
building situated upon the beach. In
the building is pump, and the rope is
in connection with it. 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 mako the ocean, by the motion of
its waves, pump enough of itself into
Wesley lake to make that lake n 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 a
health menacing body of water, and they
have for some timo wished that 1t 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 q 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
toughest weather and that it is built
with an especial view to making it run
with very little supervision. He says
that the wave gate which is in use Us
the motive power of the street sprink-
ling system at Ocean Park ran all through
the winter of 1ss9-9O without getting
out Of order, and that its operations were
not i'll the slightest interfered with by
the great storm, which, it will be rc.
called, was spoken of as "the greatest
storm for thirty years" Tho wave egg
Mr. Bond says, will be as little liable te
disarrangement by heavy weather as the
wave gate was.
Tho new machine may be used where.
ever waves rise and fall, and there need
not necessarily be a pier to hold it to its
work. 1t may be kept in place by piles
quite as well as by pier, for, while the
force of q great wave is immense, it is
not so cxerted upon the egg as to give a
shock, such, for example, as the shock OF
cannon ball.
The wave egg may be made as its uses
may demand. Tho ono in operation al
Ocean Grove has major diameter ot
ten feet, a minor diameter Of seven feet
and its weight, conjoined with the az ms
by which it is fastened to the pier, il
about two tons. Tho length of the arms
is thirty-three feet.-New York Times.