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Wave pump apparatus

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5777848
A wave pump apparatus includes a number of upstanding cylinders connected together by a subframe. Each cylinder mounts a float on the outside of the cylinder connected to a piston within the cylinder. The upstanding cylinders are spaced approximately a distance of half of an average wave length of a particular wave pattern such that as certain floats are moving upwardly, other floats are moving downwardly. Each cylinder is connected to a chamber at the bottom thereof with an inlet valve and an outlet valve, such that as the piston in the cylinder is moving upwardly , it will draw in water, and as the piston moves downwardly in the cylinder, it will pump the water.
Assignee:
IFI; EDB-82-038955
Patent Number(s):
US 4302161
OSTI ID:
5777848
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English