How do water pumps produce smooth, steady streams of water if the pump is moving up and down?

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My understanding may be wrong, but I’m fairly sure I’ve seen water pumps moving up and down or back and forth. Wouldn’t that produce little bursts of water? How does it get so smooth and consistent?

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I’m not positive… but I would say that once the pump has pulled the water up into the pipe it equalizes and creates a steady flow since the air was replaced with water. Saying that there’s gasket or diaphragm that’s continuously catching the water as you pump giving it a steady flow while the handles moving. Pausing the motion would cause the bursts. So the stream would flow as steadily as you pump it. Again not positive. It’s how I understand it to work though.

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