Improvements in and relating to Billiard and other Cues and Tips.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Billiard and other Cues
and Tips.
I, HARRIS MISENER, of 18 Great Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields, London, E.
Manufacturer, 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 improvements in and relating to billiard and other cues
and tips, and my invention consists in improved means for attaching a tip to its cue
as will be hereinafter described.
In order that my invention may be readily understood reference is made to the
accompanying drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts throughout the several figures and in which :-
Figure 1, shows a perspective view of my improved device, the tip being detached
therefrom.
Figure 2 shows a part of a cue having a socket attached to it, as will be
hereinafter described.
Figure 3, shows the top of a billiard cue having the tip attached to it by means
of my improved device.
In carrying out my invention I provide the playing end of the cue A with an
internally screwed socket B, which socket is adapted to receive the externally
screwed end of a gripping device C which consists of two hingedly connected parts,
as shown, the free end of each of which parts is formed with a recess e so that the
end d of the tip D may be readily gripped when the gripping device is closed on
said end d and screwed into the socket B as shown in Figure 3.
The tip D for the purpose of my invention, is preferably made thicker than
ordinary tips so as to allow a sufficient portion of said tip to project when the
portion d thereof is gripped as described.
By means of my invention a tip may be readily fixed to the cue without the
employment of any adhesive, and tips may be made and used of material hitherto
unusable on account of the said material not readily adhering to the cue; and a
further advantage appertaining to my invention is that the tip is not likely to
become detached by the vibration caused in using the cue, or in chalking the tip or
otherwise, and also that different tips may be used with one cue by merely changing
them say for different strokes.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the construction of the
different parts exactly as described and shown, as the same may be varied without
departing from my invention, and I may employ metal or any material or materials
which in practice I find most suitable.
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 :-
1. The combination with a billiard or other cue of means for enabling a tip
to be attached to said cue by being gripped, substantially as described and
illustrated.
2. A billiard or other cue A provided with an internally screwed socket B
adapted to receive the externally screwed part of a gripping device C, consisting

page_text: of two hingedly connected parts, the free end of each of which parts is formed with
a recess e so that the end d of a tip D may be readily gripped between said free
ends of the gripping device, substantially as and for the purposes described and
illustrated.
Dated this 8th day of January 1896
HARRIS MISENER,
By his Agents, Horn, Son & Co.,
151 Strand, next Somerset House, London, W.C.