Patent ID: 6267686
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: A63D

Abstract:
A pool stick for billiards training, comprising:an elongate body having a front body portion and a rear body portion, with a major longitudinal axis which extends through said rear body portion and through at least an adjoining portion of said front body portion, said front body portion having a laterally offset, outermost tip portion with a minor longitudinal axis therethrough, a portion of said front body portion between said outermost tip portion and said adjoining portion of said rear body portion comprising a guide portion which is laterally offset relative to the adjoining portion of the front body portion and to the rear body portion, said guide portion having a median longitudinal axis therethrough, said major, minor, and median axes being parallel to one another, and wherein the outermost tip portion, the adjoining portion of the front body portion, and the rear body portion are coaxial;a tip means attached to said outermost tip portion of said front body portion for contacting a billiard ball; andwherein a user grips said rear body portion with a rearmost hand and slidingly supports said front body portion with a frontmost hand on said guide portion, such that during a stroke of the pool stick any rotation is about a movable, actual axis which extends through a pair of movable support points through said guide portion and said rear body portion, respectively, where the frontmost and the rearmost hands, respectively, support the pool stick, said tip means not lying on said actual axis of rotation of the pool stick such that rotation of the pool stick about said actual axis causes lateral rotational movement of said tip means about said actual axis which is visible relative to said guide portion and to other references such as a billiard ball.