Improvements in Securing Tips to Billiard and like Cues.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 9th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Tips to Billiard and like Cues.
I ALFRED LAIT 12 Portland Road Clarendon Park Leicester Commercial
Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A sewn, wired, or rivetted screw tip.
The leather, gutta percha, or other material being sewn wired or rivetted or
otherwise fastened to a screw.
Either round or square headed screws, with or without holes drilled in the
screws.
For effectually securing tips to cues.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Tips to Billiard and like Cues.
1, ALFRED LAIT of 12 Portland Road, Clarendon Park, Leicester, Commercial
Traveller, 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 has reference to billiard and like cues and consists in a new or
improved method of securing tips to the ends thereof.
According to my invention I employ a metal, wood or other screw or equivalent
capable of being fixed on the end of the cue.
This screw has by preference a flat square head or plate at one end which may be
let into a correspondingly shaped recess in the underside of the tip so as to be flush
therewith, or it may be placed on the underside so as to stand proud thereof.
The head or plate may be provided with a suitable number of holes, or its edges
may be milled, serrated or equivalently formed and through or round these a cord,
thread, wire or the like may pass into the tip to secure the latter to the former.
The invention will be fully understood by reference to the accompanying drawing
wherein
Figure 1 is a section of a tip secured on the screw in accordance with this
invention; the screw and tip being detached from the billiard or other cue.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the tip screw, shewing the position of the wire,
cord or thread when the tip is secured thereon.
The tip is removed for clearness sake.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the tip and screw secured together.
Figure 4 is a plan of the underside of the tip,
Figure 5 a section of the lower portion of the tip and
Figures 6 and 64 a plan of the working end of the tip and section thereof
respectively.
Figure 7 is a perspective view of a tip and screw, secured together according
to an alternative method.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the whole of the figures.
A represents a metal, wood or other screw which is screwed on to the end of a
billiard or like cue.
This screw has a square or other suitably shaped head or plate B which is fitted
into a recess B in the underside of the tip C or laid thereon as desired.
The head of the screw is also provided with a suitable number of holes A' as in
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page_text: Figures 1, 2 and 3, or milled or serrated edges as in Figure 7, through or round
which a wire, cord, thread or equivalent is passed to secure the tip to the screw
head.
The tip may be formed of one or more pieces of leather, gutta-percha or any
other suitable material.
In the drawing it is shewn formed in two pieces mis. :-a disc D and an approxi-
mately semi-circular piece C secured together by cement or other adhesive material,
the disc being considerably harder or more dense in substance than the piece C to
which it is secured.
The working end of the tip, i.e. the end which strikes the ball, is provided with
two slits C each of which culminates in a hole, just sufficiently large to allow the
wire or cord to pass through as shewn most clearly in Figure 6ª.
The object of the slits C¹ is to allow the connecting wire or cord F upon being
tightly drawn to become embedded in the body of the tip as in Figure 1.
The slits C are made a suitable depth in the substance of the tip C by a clean
sharp cut so that after the wire or thread has passed into the tip the edges of the
slit come closely together again and the original smoothness of the surface of the
working end thereof is practically undisturbed and unaltered.
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 :-
The method of securing tips to billiard and like cues, consisting in passing a wire.
thread or the like into the body of the tip and through or round the head of a screw
or equivalent adapted to be fixed on the end of a cue substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 8th day of March 1902
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.