Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-12-27
A PERPETUAL MOTION PUMP.
Converting the Rolling Sea Waves Into
Power for Pumping Water.

Converting 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
hobs 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 il
is made fast to the pier by long, strong
arms Of iron. Up from the top Of the
mammoth egg a rope runs, and after it
has passed over a pulley it stretches on
shoreward, and at last enters a wooden
building situated upon the beach. In
the building is 4 pump, and the rope is
in connection with it. The pumps lift
ing about 5000 gallons of water a 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 We're posi-
bic 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 AsDury 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 time wished that it might
be sailed. Mr.. Bond says that he viii
have no difficulty in making Lake Yves
ley salt, and he expects to do it. He
says that he 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 a valuable machine for doing
other things which need to be done eco
nomicaIly.
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 as
the motive power Of the street sprinll-
ling system at Ocean Park ran all through
the winter Of 1S89-90 without getting
out Of order, and that its operations We're
not in the slightest interfered with by
the great storm, which, it viii be re-
called, was spoken Of as 1.-THE greatest
storm for thirty years" The wave egg,
Mr. Bond says, VIII be as little liable to
disarrangeualt by heavy weather as the
wave gate was.
The new machine may be used where
ever waves rise and fail, 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 a pier, for, while the
force Of a great wave is immense, it is
not so eXerted upon the egg as to give a
shock, such, for example, rs the shock of
q cannon ball
The wave egg may be made rs its uses
may demand. The one in operation at
Ocean Grove has major diameter Of
ten feet, q minor diameter Of seven feet,
and its weight, conjoinel with the arms
by which it is fastened 10 the pier, is
about two tons. The length Of the arms
is thirty-threa feet.-New York Times.