Improvements in Billiard Cues and in Appliances connected therewith.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1890.
Complete Specification Left, 6th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Billiard Cues and in Appliances connected
therewith.
We, JOHN PILKINGTON, of 6, Commercial Street, Church, in the County of
Lancaster, Cabinet Maker, and GEORGE TAYLOR, of 2, Poland Street, Accrington,
in the County aforesaid, Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved means of, and appliances employed for fixing
the "tips" to billiard cues, by use of which we are enabled to fix tips to cues,
without cement, or glue as heretofore employed, and the tips are so fixed that they
can readily be removed from the cues if necessary, and are interchangeable, i.e., can
be removed from one cue, and fixed on another without any loss of time.
According to this our said invention on the end of the cue is received a detach-
able cap of brass or other metal, having one or more longitudinal slots formed in it,
so as to allow the caps to be expanded or contracted as requisite, at the outer end
of the metal cap is fixed, preferably by forming a flange on the cap, a washer or
disc of tin or other metal, in the face of which are pins (preferably three) the points
of which converge towards a common centre forming a cone.
The tip to be fixed on the cue is pressed or knocked on to the pins and against
the washer or disc of tin, the said pins converging towards one centre form a claw
which securely holds the tip in position and when in use the knocking of balls with
the tip tends to keep the same tight and rigid.
The cap having the longitudinal slots can be readily removed from the end of
one cue and placed on another one, and also acts as a preventative for split or
cracked ends of cues on which it is used.
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WALTER BRIERLEY,
Central Chambers, Halifax, Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Billiard Cues and in Appliances connected
therewith.
We, JOHN PILKINGTON, of No. 6, Commercial Street, Church, Lancashire,
Cabinet Maker, and GEORGE TAYLOR, of 2, Poland Street, Accrington, Lanca-
shire, Joiner, 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 :-
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Our invention consists in applying to the striking end of billiard or other cues a
metal socket with pins thereon upon which we affix the leather tip. Such socket
can be made in one piece, either plain, or with slits in its sides to enable it to adjust
itself to the taper of the cue, and with one or more pins rivited on its end, or,
can be made from tube, with a malleable casting having pins or points cast in one
piece, or pins rivited on, such casting then secured in the end of tube-in either
manner being as section Fig. 1. The pins or points upon which we secure the tip,
can be either straight or bent at a slight angle either outwards or inwards-as
may be found practicably to answer the best.
Our manner of fixing the leather tips upon the pins is as follows-Fig. 2. We
make a piece of hardwood or metal-cylindrical in form (f) through which we
make a taper hole (d) from end to end, that will admit of an ordinary cue passing

page_text: nearly through. We then employ a piston (9) of similar material having a recess (e)
at its point, of corresponding shape to receive the leather tip, such piston to be a
good fit in the narrow end of hole (d). We now select a tip (A) which we drop
into the widest end of hole (d) at the same time, piston (g) being in the opposite or
narrow end of hole-receives it in its, recessed end,(e). We place a socket (c) on
the end of cue-and insert it in hole (d) while the tip is resting in (e) and press it
forward' till the pins reach the underside of tip, then place the butt end of cue on
the floor, and with a blow or blows upon head of piston drive the tip level onto the
socket, the leather tip being now fast on the pins B the cue is ready for use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
Novelty in employing pins to fasten tips on with-instead of cement-and the
manner of affixing the same-combined with an adjustable and detachable socket.
We claim as an improvement--that by adopting pins-the player is constantly
driving the tip faster whereas in those cemented on, the stroke is liable to break
the cement, and the tip to fly off. Our improvements enables a player to continue
his game right through with his own favorite cue for should a tip become faulty-it
can at once be replaced, thus preventing the necessity of playing with a strange cue.
Improvements in billiard and other cues-and in appliances connected therewith.
Dated this 4th day of February 1891.
GEORGE TAYLOR.
JOHN PILKINGTON.