Improvements in Cues for the Game of Billiards and other like Games.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1900-Accepted, 3rd Nov., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cues for the Game of Billiards and other like Games.
I, ERNEST SANFORD NEW, The Voltage, Woking, Surrey, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to cues for the game of billiards and other like gamer
and consists of a new method of attaching tips thereto.
The object of the present invention is to provide a means by which the tips
can be more readily and more securely fixed to the cues.
It has been hitherto the practise to secure a prepared usually leather tip
direct on to the end of the cue, which is usually made of wood, by means of
some suitable cement or its equivalent.
According to the present invention I fix on to the end of the cue a small
block of celluloid of the same diameter as the cue. This I do either by a screw
countersunk into the celluloid or by mitreing or dovetailing and cementing or by
a combination of these methods.
I may cement a thin sheet of celluloid of the same diameter on to the top
of this block in order to completely bury the head of the screw & leave a
flat surface to receive the tip by means of a cement consisting of a solution of
dissolved celluloid such as celluloid dissolved in acetone.
By means of preparing the cue in this manner I am enabled to use a cement
consisting of a solution of dissolved celluloid such as celluloid dissolved in
acetone to firmly cement the tip on to the cue so prepared.
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Such tip I may previously prepare with lower or contact surface of celluloid
and in any convenient manner.
Tad this Coventh day of December 1899
Improvements in Cues for the Game of Billiards and other like Games.
I, ERNEST SANFORD NEW, The Voltage, Woking, Surrey, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
.
My invention relates to cues for the game of billiards and other like games
and consists of a new method of attaching tips thereto.
The object of the present invention is to provide a means by which the tipa
can be more readily and more securely fixed to the cues.

page_text: It has been hitherto the practise to secure a prepared usually leather tip
direct on to the end of the cue, which is usually made of wood, by means of
some suitable cement or its equivalent.
According to the present invention I fix on to the end of the cue a small
block of celluloid of the same diameter as the cue. This I do either by a screw
countersunk into the celluloid or by mitreing or dovetailing and cementing or by
a combination of these methods.
I may cement a thin sheet of celluloid of the same diameter on to the top
of this block in order to completely bury the head of the screw and leave a
flat surface to receive the tip by means of a cement consisting of a solution of
dissolved celluloid such as celluloid dissolved in acetone.
In order that the nature of my invention may be the more fully understood
I refer to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 represents a section of the end of a cue to which the leather tip
is affixed in the manner above described.
Figure 2 represents a view of a cue in which the celluloid block is affixed to
the end by dovetailing in the manner described as a variation of the method of
construction shewn in Figure 1.
Figure 3 displays a variation in the structure of the celluloid block in the
manner of attaching it to the cue.
In these figures:-
a is the end of the wooden cue; b is the block of celluloid attached thereto;
c is the screw by which the said block b is firmly secured to the end of the cue;
d is a plate or sheet of celluloid cemented to the top of the block 6 by means of
cement consisting of a solution of celluloid in acetone; f is the leather tip which
is secured or cemented to a sheet or plate of celluloid e by means of the same
cement.
In the method of construction displayed in Figure 2
jection of the celluloid block b.
is the dovetailed pro-
The form of block shewn in Figure 3 is provided with an elongation or
neck which is screw-threaded and is adapted for screwing in to a corresponding
hole in the end of the wooden cue.
In carrying out my invention in practice I provide the flat surface of the
leather tip with a celluloid facing by cementing thereto as already indicated,
the thin plate or sheet e with celluloid cement. But I may omit this celluloid
plate and instead of employing it may prepare the under surface of the tip f by
saturation with the solution of celluloid in acetone and subsequently dry it.
The block b is secured to the end of the cue a in the manner clearly shewn in
Figure 1, that is to say, by screwing it on by means of the ordinary wood
screw c, the upper part of the block 6 being countersunk to accommodate the
head of the screw c and to enable it to lie flush with the surface of the block.
I then secure to the surface of the block b the thin plate of celluloid d by
cementing it with the already described cement to the top of the block b. There
is then presented a flat continuous surface of celluloid. This is then moistened
with the acetone solution and the celluloid prepared surface of the tip f, which
is likewise preferably, though not necessarily, moistened with the said solution,
is applied to it and held thereto by an ordinary screw press such as are employed
for affixing the leather tips in the ordinary way or by other convenient means.
Instead of affixing the block b to the end of the cue in this manner, I may
employ a method of construction clearly displayed in Figure 2, that is to say, I
provide the block b with the projection g shaped as shewn, and I dovetail the
end of the cue so as to correspond in shape and size with the projection g, I then
slide in the block b and the projection from the side and secure in position by
the employment of cement preferably the above described solution of celluloid
in acetone which is previously applied to one or both of the surfaces designed
.to fit one another.
I may likewise secure the block 6 in position by means of the arrangement

page_text: isplayed in Figure 3, that is to say, by constructing or providing it with a
crew-threaded neck h, which is screwed into a corresponding bole in the end
of the cue and retained in that position preferably by the use of cement.
In the method of construction shewn in Figure 2 the top of the block b being
continuous there is no necessity to affix thereto the additional plate d which is
accordingly omitted in Figure 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. In cues for billiards or the like games the method of affixing the leather
tip to the cue by providing the same with a celluloid facing or surface, securing
to the top of the cue a block of celluloid by means of a screw, providing the said
block with a continuous surface of celluloid by cementing there over and thereto
a thin plate or sheet of celluleid and by cementing thereto the celluloid faced
leather tip, by wetting both the surfaces to be cemented with acetone solution
substantially as described.
2. In cues for billiards or the like games the method of affixing the leather
tip to the cue by providing the same with a celluloid facing or surface, securing
to the top of the cue a block of celluloid by means of dovetailing it thereto, and
by cementing thereto the celluloid faced leather tip, substantially as described.
3. In cues for billiards or the like games the method of affixing the leather
tip to the cue by providing the same with a celluloid facing or surface, securing
to the top of the cue a block of celluloid provided with a screw-threaded projec-
tion by screwing the same into a corresponding screw-threaded hole in the end
of the cue and cementing thereto the celluloid faced leather tip, substantially
as described.
4. A billiard cue in which the leather tip, faced with celluloid, is affixed to the
celluloid biock secured to the end of the cue by means of a screw, the said block
of celluloid so secured being faced with a plate or sheet of celluloid, substantially
as described.
5. A billiard cue in which the leather tip, faced with celluloid, is affixed to
the celluloid block secured to the end of the cue by dovetailing, substantially
as described.
6. A billiard cue in which the leather tip faced with celluloid, is affixed to the
5 celluloid block provided with a screw-threaded projection integral with the said
block and screwed into the cue so as to secure the block thereto, substantially as
described.