CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 999, 29 April 1909, Page 12

CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

NOVEL METHODS OF OBTAINING MOTIVE POWER.

A means of obtaining motive power from the action of the sea has been invented by Mark Saunders, of Timaru. ironworker, who is applying for patent rights. The specifications are of a simple and easily understandable nature, which differentiates them from most patents specifications. They state that a pipe, or a number of pipes, each tapering towards one end, is, or are, arranging with their larger ends so disposed as to be mainly below the level of the water. These pipes are then inclined upwards to their back end, and are made to extend in a direction corresponding to the direction of movement of the waves, so that such waves in their motion will pass up into such pipes. As each wave passes into the mouth of the pipe it will imprison the air within such pipe, and compress and drive it up the pipe and into a compressed-air tank connected with the pipe. At the same time this water will be dilivered from the back end of the pipe into a trough or flume arranged to receive it, and by such flume be conveyed by gravity