IMPROVEMENTS IN BILLIARD CUES
Year: 1884

page_text: I EDWARD COLLINS of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Case Manufac
turer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
BILLIARD CUES to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements in attaching the buffs to the points of
billiard cues without employing glue or other adhesive material which is liable to
failure and consequently causing the buff to leave the point of the cue.
With this view I attach to the point of the cue a ferule which may be of metal
of any suitable description or of ivory horn vulcanite bone or other like substance
capable of being tapped with a female screw the buff is fixed in a similar ferule
having a male screw which engages in the female screw upon the end of the cue
and secures the parts together. Or the end of the cue itself may have a screw
turned on it without a ferule and the ferule containing the buff may have a female.
screw and thus be screwed on to the wood end of the cue, In any of these
examples the parts are connected by screwing them together without the use of
any adhesive matter.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
100, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: I EDWARD COLLINS of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Case Manufac-
turer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
BILLIARD CUES, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed & to the letters & figures marked
thercon that is to say :-
This Invention consists of improvements in attaching the buffs or tips to the
points of billiard cues without employing glue or other adhesive material, which
is liable to failure and consequently causing the buff or tip to leave the point of
thecue.
With this view I attach to the point of the cue a ferrule which may be of metal
of any suitable description or of ivory horn vulcanite bone or other like substance
capable of being tapped with a female screw, the buff or tip is fixed in a similar
ferrule having a male screw which engages in the female screw upon the end of the
cue and secures the parts together. Or the end of the cue itsolf may have a screw
turned on it without a ferrule and the ferrule containing the buff or tip may have
a female screw and thus be screwed on to the wood end of the cue.
Or I may form a socket or ferrule of brass or any suitable material having a
screwed plug on its one end which screws into a thickness or layer of ivory wood
vulcanite or any other suitable material upon which is fastened in the ordinary
manner by means of cement glue or any suitable adhesive substance, the buff or
tip so that in the event of the buff or tip becoming loose it is only necessary to
unscrew the portion of ivory wood or vulcanite upon which the buff or tip is
fastened and substitute a fresh one by screwing the same on to the screwed plug
on the brass ferrule, before alluded to.
Inside this socket or ferrule I place a thin blank, preferably of leather―tight
up against the end for the purpose of deadening the metallic ring which might
otherwise occur in striking.
The Socket or Ferrule is then driven tightly on to the cue end and a firmly fixed
tip is obtained.
Referring to the Drawings
Fig 1 is a ferrule tapped with a female screw (a). Fig. 2 is the buff or tip with
its ferrule (b) tapped with a male screw to engage in the female screw (a) Fig 1,
and form the end of the cue as shewn in Fig 3. Fig 4 is another form of ferrule
described with the plug (c) with its screw (d) upon which screws the piece (e)
Fig. 5 to which is attached the buff or tip (f) (g) is the leather blank inside the
ferrule. Fig. 6 is an Elevation of the complete cue tip as last described.
In any of these examples the parts are connected by screwing them together
without the use of any adhesive matter.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The Attaching of the Buffs or Tips to the points of Billiard Cue's as herein set
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Dated this 20th day of February 1885.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
Agents,
Arcade Chambers, Corporation Street,
Birmingham.