Improvements in Cue-tip Fasteners.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cue-tip Fasteners.
I, HENRY MORTON CRIDER, of Knightstown, in the County of Henry and
State of Indiana, United States of America, Painter, do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN CUE-TIP FASTENERS, 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 devices for fastening tips to billiard-cues, and will be
understood from the following description.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line a a.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view, the fastening device raised. Fig. 4 is a perspective
view of the upper end of the device, the tip detached from the hooks, the latter
sprung out to release the tip. Fig. 5 is a section on the line y y, Fig. 2.
In detail, 1 is the cue, and 2 a metal tube, having grooves 9 formed in its sides
to admit the wires 7. This tube is shouldered below at 3 to fit a projection on the
screw-collar 5, which works over a threaded ring 6, slipped on the tube 2, and to
the inside of this ring are connected spring-wires 7, having hooks on their upper
ends for entering the sides of the leather tip 8. This tip is shouldered beneath to
fit in a corresponding opening 4 in the top of the tube 2. The upper end of this
tube is re-enforced outside for strength, and the wires 7 pass through openings
therein. The upper end of the cue is extended through the tube to a line with its
shoulder 4 and forms a seat for the tip 8, the cue being, preferably, screwed into
The collar 5
the tube, as shown in Fig. 2, though they may be united by cement.
fits loosely about the tube 2, and after the hooked ends of the wires 7 have been
inserted in the leather 8 they are pulled down until the threaded exterior of the
ring 6 engages with the threads of the collar 5, and by turning down the latter the
ring with its wires are drawn downward and the tip is seated upon the top of the cue
and held in place. The wires are preferably elastic and are sprung out to admit
the tip, as shown in Fig. 4, and when the latter is set in place and drawn down the
wires slide into the grooves 9, and these prevent any lateral movement of the tip.
If desired, the sliding ring might move directly on the cue, the tube 2 being
dispensed with; but this would not be so strong a construction, and is therefore
objectionable, the essential feature of my invention being the gripping of the tip by
hooked wires connected to a sliding ring mounted on the cue and drawn down and
locked by engagement with a collar mounted below.
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. A cue-tip fastener comprising a tube secured to the upper end of a cue, a ring
sliding upon such tube, wires connected thereto having hooks at their upper ends
for entering the sides of the tin. and a collar loosely mounted on the lower end of

page_text: such tube, threaded inside, and engaging with threads on the outside of the sliding
ring, substantially as shown and described.
end of a cue, a
of such tube, a
2. A cue-tip fastener comprising a tube secured to the upp
collar having a threaded flange loosely mounted on the lower
ring sliding upon the tube, wires connected therewith sliding in grooves in the sides
and through openings in the re-enforced upper end of such tube, such wires having
hooks for gripping the edges of the tip, in combination with a leather tip having a
shouldered base seated in a similar opening in the top of the tube and with a cue
connected to the tube, its upper end forming a support for the bottom of the tip,
substantially as shown and described.
3. A cue-tip fastener comprising hooked wires for clutching the tip, connected to
a ring sliding upon the cue, its outer surface threaded for engagement, and in
combination with a collar loosely mounted on the cue below such ring and threaded
inside to engage with the outer face of the ring for drawing the tip down upon
and holding it to the upper end of the cue, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 1st day of May 1891.
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.