An Improved Billiard Cue.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 11th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Billiard Cue.
I, BARNABAS VON BALAJTHY, Royal Hungarian Chief Mining Commissioner, of
Oravieza-Banya, in the Empire of Austro-Hungary, 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: --
This invention relates to an improved form of billiard cue and it consists
generally in arranging the cue in two portions with a ring of elastic material
between the front or striking part and the rear or haft.
The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrate in part longitudinal section at
Figure 1 and plan at Figure 2 a billiard cue constructed in accordance with the
present invention.
On the accompanying drawings and at Figure 1, the line a, x, passes through
the centre of gravity of the billiard cue and immediately above this line the
elastic ring e is placed, so that it lies between the front or striking portion 6 and
the rear or haft a. The blow or push delivered by the player is therefore
transmitted in an elastic manner from the haft a to the striking portion b.
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The position of the ring c being as stated slightly in advance or above the
centre of gravity of the cue the whole impulse is therefore conveyed by the said
elastic washer.
The portions a, b, c, are connected together by a rod d and thereby stiffened,
and the upper end of the said rod is screwed and fitted into the front portion b
of the cue while the remaining portion passes through a clearance hole in the
haft a and is secured at the bottom by a screwed nut or washer g fitting upon the
screwed lower end of the rod.
The clearance hole in the haft a is of larger diameter than the rod d so that the
impulse or push given to the haft a may not effect the rod d. The screwed washer
or nut g is arranged so that it may be moved by hand.
:
The end of the haft a adjacent to the ring e is formed with a slight conical
depression that is to say the lines e f, (as clearly shown at Figure 1) enclose
on their cross section such an angle that the lines of the impulse or blow transferred
from the conical depression to the elastic washer automatically accommodate them-
selves to that point of the part 6 of the cue which strikes the ball.
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. A composite billiard cue so constituted and arranged that between the rear
part or haft and the front or striking part a ring of elastic material is introduced,
these several parts being connected together by means of a rod screwed at one end
into the front part passing through the washer and a clearance hole on the haft
where an external adjustable nut screws on and holds the said parts together.
2. In a billiard cue constructed as specified in the preceding claim providing
the end of the haft adjacent to the elastic washer with a slight conical depression
so that the lines of the impulse or blow transferred from the said depression to

page_text: the said washer automatically accommodate themselves to the striking point of
the cue.
3. The improved billiard cue substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.