AN IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD CUES
Year: 1885

page_text: I WALTER BUTTERY of the firm of Burroughes and Watts of Soho Square
London in the County of Middlesex Billiard 'table maker do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD CUES" to be as
follows:
"
My invention relates to an improvement in billiard cues made in two or more
parts for convenience of carriage, whereby I propose to make a stronger joint, or
joints, with better wearing surfaces, with the division or divisions less apparent
when the cue is put together, and the cue better balanced than jointed cues of
ordinary make on any other cue of ordinary make.
I propose to join the two or more sections of my improved cue by a metal screw
upon one part entered into a socket upon the other, and my improvement consists
in providing both screw and socket with a plate or flange which I countersink into
the sections so that when the cue is put together these plates or flanges will come
together and take the wear which would otherwise result after a little use in the
production of an uneven joint rendering the cue inaccurate.
I now prefer to make these contact plates by flanges forming part of a metal
screw and socket, but I may make them separate therefrom, with opening in the
centre for the passage of the screw, and of such metal or material as I may find
give the best wearing surface, countersinking them into the end of each section
and securing them by rivets, cement, or as I may find most desirable.
My invention may be also applied to repair cues which from wear or accident
have become useless.

page_text: I WALTER BUTTERY, of the firm of Burroughes and Watts, of Soho Square
London, in the County of 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 :—
My invention relates to an improvement in Billiard Cues made in two or more
parts for convenience of carriage, whereby I propose to make a stronger joint, or
joints, with better wearing surfaces, with the division or divisions less apparent
when the cue is put together, and the cue better balanced than jointed cues of
ordinary make, or any other cue of ordinary make.
I join the two or more sections of my improved cue by a metal screw upon one
part entering into a socket upon the other, and my improvement consists in
providing both screw and socket with a plate or flange which I countersink or
recess into the sections so that when the cue is put together these plates or flanges
will come into contact and take the wear which would otherwise result after a
little use in the production of an uneven joint rendering the cue inaccurate.
The accompanying sheet of Drawing illustrates my Invention.
Figures 1 representing a cue drawn to an enlarged scale and with the joint
partly opened; the plates D being recessed and the screw C formed with a counter-
sunk head.
Figures 2 a modification of the above; the plates D being arranged so as to butt
the one against the other.
Figure 3 a cue complete ready for use.
A. being one section of the Cue.
B. is the other.
C. metal screw attached to B.
D. D. contact plates or flanges of metal or other suitable material, countersunk
into, or recessed in sections A and B.
E. shank or tail of screw.
F. metal socket to receive screw C.
G. socket in cue itself.
The contact plates D D may be flanges forming part of the metal screw C and
of the socket F (Fig. 2) or they may be separate plates as at D Fig. 1 where the
screw C screws into the socket G which is simply formed in the wood of the
cue; the plates D being however in every case recessed in the sections to which
they are applied, and when not forming part of metal-socket F or screw C they
are secured or fixed to the section by rivets, cement, or as may be found most
desirable.

page_text: My invention may also be applied to repair cues which from wear or accident
have become useless.
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:
In a Billiard Cue divided into two or more sections, providing each section with
a recessed plate or flange of metal or other material taking the wear when the
sections are joined, substantially as described.
Dated this Twenty first day of April 1886.
For the Applicant,
W. E. GEDGE,
Agent.