Improvements in Billiard Ques or the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1895
געע VUI
Improvements in Billiard Ques or the like.
I, JAMES ARTHUR INCHBOARD, 36 Cotswold Street, Holt Road, Liverpool,
Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
hanner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
nd by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in billiard cues or the like, and has for its
object to provide means for fixing the tips upon cues whereby, such tips will be
perfectly secure and free from liability to become displaced, a further object being
to so form the said tips, as to render a stroke with a cue fitted with such tips more
certain and effective than heretofore.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into effect reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative
drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a billiard-cue complete, constructed according to my
invention,
Fig. 2 being a longitudinal elevation of
same, while
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of my improved form of tip.
In the drawings, a is a socket formed in two longitudinal halves and provided
with a screw-threaded shank a' adapted to screw into the tapped forward end
of the cue b.
The forward portion of the socket a is enlarged in diameter so that the surface of
same will be on a plane with the surface of the cue, the said culargement also being
This tip is sub-
to provide a sufficient interior space to receive the tail of a tip c.
stantially of the form shewn in Fig. 3 that is to say, it has a dove-tail rear
portion c which is adapted to fit securely within the socket a, the front of such
socket being bevelled upon the interior as at a³, so as to diminish the interior
space at that point, to conform to the dove-tail shape of the said rear portion c¹
of the tip c.
By the peculiar construction of the tip and the divided socket into which the
tail of same fits, a perfectly secure joint will result.
I preferably provide the socket a, with a milled outer periphery a' for convenience
in unscrewing and screwing same, and further provide an india-rubber or other
washer d to secure a more perfect joint between the opposing shoulders of the
Bocket a and the cue b.
A similar washer may be provided between the tip c and the socket a if found
5 desirable.
face of such tip c.
I preferably form the tip c with a circular groove or channel upon the face of
same, a short space from the edge, so as to provide a rim running around the
With this form of tip, a more certain stroke can be made with a cue provided
0 therewith than heretofore was possible so that the risk of making a miss-cue will be
reduced to a minimum.
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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 1
claim is :-
1. In billiard cues or the like, a longitudinally divided socket adapted to receiv
the dove-tail rear nortion of a tip, and having a sorew-threaded shank adapte

page_text: to screw into the tapped forward end of the cue, substantially as described and
shewn.
2. In billiard cues, or the like, a socket formed in halves, having the inner side of
the mouth bevelled to grip the dove-tail of a tip, said socket having a screw
threaded shank to screw into the end of a cue and a milled outer periphery,
substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated.
3. In billiard cues or the like a tip having a dove-tail and a face provided with a
circular groove thereon substantially as described with reference to Fig. 3.
Dated this 19th day of September 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.