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Patent # 483269 Dated February 12, 1907
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I Philip Brasher, a citizen of the United Sates, residing in
the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, in the county of Kings and State of
New York.
My invention relates to the protection
of objects from the action of waves of the ocean or other bodies of water, and
has for its objects the protection of beaches, bulkheads,
piers, light-houses, and other objects or structures exposed to wave action and
the protection of light-ships and other vessels and the protection of harbors
and the formation of
artificial harbors.
I have found that by discharging a compressed elastic fluid,
such as air, beneath the surface of the water at a substantial distance from the
object to be protected I can effect
a substantially complete destruction of the waves, so that the waves approaching
an object will be substantially annihilated by the wave-destroying action of
the rising globules
or bubbles or columns of expanding elastic fluid and the object effectively
shielded or protected from wave action. In using this new method of
protection from wave action
I may employ a wide variety of means adapted to various conditions of use, and
these means are generically of novel construction, and several varieties thereof
are shown in
drawings and hereinafter described, and a single species thereof is hereinafter
claimed.......
