Improvements in Tips for Billiard Cues.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tips for Billiard Cues.
I ARTHUR HARRIS of 22, Clarendon Street, Leamington, House Painter, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in tips for billiard cues, and has for its
object to provide a simple arrangement by means of which these tips can be more
securely fixed in position than is at present the case.
Billiard cues as fixed in the ordinary manner are very liable to come off owing
to the constant jarring which breaks the cement.
In carrying out my invention, according to one arrangement, I propose to
compress the leather tip into a ferrule or thimble shape. This forms a socket into
which the end of the cue is placed, the cue being cut away at the end to receive
the ferrule. The top of the ferrule is made of the usual thickness and form of
cue tips. The ferrule is secured to the cue by cement, and will thus remain fixed
in position until worn out.
Instead of forming the tip and ferrule from leather, compressed felt may be
employed, moulded into the required shape.
According to a slightly modified arrangement the tip may be formed with two
three or more radial prongs. The end of the cue is grooved to receive these
prongs, which are cemented in position.
Dated this 5th day of November 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Tips for Billiard Cues.
I, ARTHUR HARRIS of 22, Clarendon Street, Leamington, House Painter, 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 improvements in tips for billiard cues, and has for its
object to provide a simple arrangement by means of which these tips can be more
securely fixed in position than is at present the case.
The tips to billiard cues, as fixed in the ordinary manner are very liable to
come off, owing to the constant jarring which breaks the cement.
In carrying out my invention I propose to fix to the end of the cue, a ferrule or
thimble of compressed leather, the end of the cue being reduced and fitting into
the recess in the tip. The top of the ferrule is made of the usual thickness and
form of cue tips, and the ferrule being secured to the cue by cement.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 shows a section of the end of the cue, Fig. 2 being a plan, and Figs. 3
and 4 showing a modification.

page_text: Referring to 'Figs. 1 and 2 the leather tip A is formed with a circular recess
or hollow a, the end of the cue B being reduced at b to fit into this recess.
As shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the tip A' is formed with radial prongs or pro-
jections a' which fit into grooves in the end of the cuc B₁ the two being
cemented together.
The tip may be made from compressed felt or any other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) In an improved tip for billiard cues the tip being formed from compressed
leather or the like having a recess or hollow in it and a projection on the end of
the cue to fit the recess in the tip, substantially as described and for the purposes
:specified.
(2.) In an improved tip for billiard cues the tip being formed with radial
prongs, or projections and grooves in the end of the cue, substantially as and for
the purposes specified.
(3.) Improvements in tips for billiard cues substantially as described and
shown in the accompanying specification and drawings, and for the purposes
specified.
Dated this 6th day of August 1896.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.