Eureka Reporter | 1905-03-31 | Page 6 | Power from Siphon Pump

POWER FROM SIPHON PUMP S mple device of french inventor Is of real worth A french inventor by an harily simple device believes he has harnessed one of the elemental p es t physics the siphon every schoolboy who has owned a bent glass tube knows that water can be raised above its own level provid ri r if FIG I 1 arrangement of the siphon pump ed it pass s through an air tube to a lower level at the further end M michel of paris makes use of the siphon to construct an automatic pump or elevator as he calls it that without power other than that ot action will raise water to any required regu ired bright in other he interrupts the siphon at its highest po nt long enough to throw out a quan city of water these interruptions are so rapid that a constant stream Is thrown in seme cases amounting to 90 per cent of the water raised from the first j lev el up to the present time that has been held to be an impossibility and the siphon has been used solely for transferring liquids from one recep to another