Improvements connected with the Tips of Billiard and like Cues.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with the Tips of Billiard and like Cues.
We EDMUND SPENCER of 34 Crayford Road, Holloway, Middlesex, Jeweller
and WALTER HENRY JONES of 37 Dalmeny Road, Tufnell Park, Middlesex,
Billiard Table Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to an improved combination of parts comprising a tip
or top and an improved method of securing the parts together, also in fixing
the tip to the cue.
In most methods of building up or combining the leathers (soft and hard) and
of securing them to a billiard or like cue the process is so imperfect that after
a little use, due to the vibration caused by constant tapping the parts, separate
or the tip or top falls off. Now the object of our invention is to remedy the
known defects, for which purpose, we, after preparing the soft tip piece form a
rectangular, square or other shaped recess in the base and insert a metallic or other
appliance into the recess in which it can be retained by pressure and a cement or a
mastic of a non rigid yet strongly adhesive character, when dry, said appliance
having a peg which can be roughened for affixture in a hole prepared for it in the
end of the cue and in which it is fixed by a cement or mastic. Between the tip
proper and the cue, a disc or washer of hard leather or its equivalent is cemented
to hold to both, so that not only is the soft leather permanently fixed but the hard
leather also, these being further secured to the cue by the peg in conjunction with
the adhesive property of the cement or mastic employed.
The metal or like appliance with the peg may have short pins or points set
upright or at an angle on the upper face to further fix it to the soft leather.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said E. Spencer and W. H. Jones.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with the Tips of Billiard and like Cues.
We, EDMUND SPENCER, of 34 Crayford Road, Holloway, Middlesex, Jeweller,
and WALTER HENRY JONES, of 37 Dalmeny Road, Tufnell Park, Middlesex,
Billiard Table Maker, 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 combination of parts comprising a tip or
top of a billiard or like cue, and to an improved method of securing the parts
together, also in fixing the tip to the cue.
In most methods of building up or combining the leathers (soft and hard) and of
securing them to a billiard or like cue, the process is so imperfect that after a little
use, due to the vibration caused by constant tapping, the parts separate or the tip
or top falls off.
Now the object of our invention, is to remedy the known defects, for which
purpose, we after preparing the soft tip piece form a rectangular, square, or other
shaped recess in the base and insert a metallic, or other hard appliance into the
recess in which it can be retained by pressure and a cement, or a mastic of a
non-rigid yet strongly adhesive character when dry, said appliance having a peg
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page_text: which can be roughened for affixture in a hole prepared for it in the end of the
cue, and in which it is fixed by a cement or mastic. Between the tip proper
and the cue, a disc, or washer of hard leather, or its equivalent is cemented to
hold to both, so that not only is the soft leather permanently fixed, but the
hard leather also, these being further secured to the cue by the peg in conjunction
with the adhesive property of the cement or mastic employed.
The metal, or like appliance with the peg may have short pins or points set
upright, or at an angle on the upper face to further fix it to the soft leather.
The invention will be clearly understood by the annexed sketches, of which
Figure is a view of the underside of the tip leather A with a rectangular
recess B for the insertion and fixation of the pinned and studded, or pegged
plate C seen in Figure 2 in side elevation, and in Figure 3 a plan showing the
pins D, D, projecting from the upper face to be pressed into the tip, as seen at
Figure 4, this being a section of the tip leather A with the plate in the recess.
Figures 5 and 6 are plan and cross section of the intermediate leather E com-
pressed to the proper degree of hardness, and with a hole in its centre to go
over the stud F, as at Figure 7, and be cemented to the tip A and plate C, as
indicated by Figure 8. The top thus built up is affixed to the cue stick G by
the stud being pushed into a hole in the end of the stick G, and fastened by
cement therein, the leather washer E being also caused to adhere to the end of
the stick by the cement and thereby form part and parcel of the stick, as represented
at Figures 9 and 10 section and elevation respectively.
We do not confine ourselves to any special kind of cement, but we find marine
glue particularly useful for the purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
"1
1. The method or means of combining the several parts constituting the "tip"
for a billiard or like cue, the parts being constructed and arranged in the manner
described and shown in the drawings.
2. The pinned and studded plate C, the recess B in "tip" leather A, as and for
the purposes described.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Edmund Spencer and Walter Henry Jones.