Show Jing ing and Falling Waves Are Made to Pump and Compress Air tD 0 d r END 4 IS I ti I kp L V- V n. n p S A DEVICE for tor u utilizing the power that th the o ocean n A waves dissipate In profitless ebb and flow h hN has N et been boon Invented by Herbert E. E Fisher ot of San Francisco A float Is s provided from opposite ends of ot D which weighted d db disks ks are suspended pendulum fashion These disks are conical in shape They take I tago rage of or the force of ot waves flowing against them W While lUe r one of the pendulum like 1 devices dece is being raised the corresponding one on on the opposite end of the float Is isN N depressed by the w waves The he pendulum like de device at t each ach end of the the float j hate has two similarly shaped shape disks c conical and shallow tl the lower with its apex up the upper with Its apex down doi The upper disk contains an air chamber pro pro- tooted by a covering o of ot water proof material Which i la is I normally held in an upwardly expanded position by ribs Tubes extend from this chamber up to a an air tb receiver on the float When a wave forces the lower disk upward It caus causa causes a collapse a of the pivoted ribs support the tie waterproof water I proof covering o of the air chamber th thus compressing I the air in the chamber and driving it ft up past a check valve through one o of the tubes to the air receiver on the float As the wave recedes the disk j is car car- V ried ned downward by the weight of or the e l lower anchoring disk thus again expanding the theair air chamber chamb i and drawing in a fresh frh supply sUPPly of cf air through the other tube In this way waya a steady flow of air is compressed into the receiver on the float from which point it may be conveyed to an air motor and the useful work power oW r transferred into In the accompanying diagram the disk ac at the right is falling arid collapsed that at atS at'S atthe atthe the left is rising and and expanded S 'S |