Improvements in Billiard-oues.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 28th Sept., 1898
GODIFLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Billiard-oues.
1, WILHELM CONEN, of 48 Caoilienstrasse, Cologue, in the German Empire,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
Bame is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention relates to billiard cues and is chiefly designed to provide improved.
means for securing in position the leather or other "tips" thereof.
Heretofore the leather "tips" of billiard cues have been fastened either directly
to the cues or sticks by means of glue, or they have been secured in metallic tubes
which were then attached to the sticks or cues. In both methods of fastening,
renewal of the leather was ouly possible either by regluing or by renewing the
tube carrying the leather, or by inserting a fresh leather in this tube, which could
only be undertaken by a skilled workman.
By the present invention, these disadvantages are obviated, and the leather tip
can be easily replaced by anyone, so that, on the loss or detachment of a leather
"tip," the lost or detached tip can be immediately replaced by a new one, and it is
therefore not necessary to change the billiard cue.
In the accompanying drawing :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation,
Figure 2 a longitudinal section, and
Figure 3 a transverse section of the tip-end of a billiard-cue having my improve-
ments applied thereto.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are respectively an elevation, a longitudinal and a transverse
section showing the spring-tube for securing the leather "tip."
Figures 7 and 8 are an elevation and transverse section respectively showing a
socket to be secured to the stick or cue, for receiving the spring-tube.
Figure 9 shows a modified form of spring-tube.
The leather or other tip a is shouldered or reduced on its under side. Over the
projection so formed engages the upper inwardly-bent edge of a tube b. This
tube b is incised at suitable positions, for example, it is provided with several
slots extending from the top nearly to its lower edge. In this manner spring
arnis are formed, the inwardly-turned upper edges or jaws of which are capable
of being pressed together. The tube b is also provided with a groove or channel o,
which has a conical depression d' at its upper end.
The tube 6 can either be open at both ends, Figures 4 and 5, or it can be closed
at its lower end by means of a plate, Figure 9.
In the tube is introduced a wood-plug or the like, in order to render yielding
or pressing together of the said tube impossible during play.
On the billiard-cue or stick is fastened a socket d which is provided at its lower
end with a strengthening ring d' and can be covered or coated with any suitable
material as shown. This socket serves, on the one hand, to prevent splitting of
the billiard stick, and also for the reception of the tube b. The said tubo as it is
introduced into the socket d engages by means of its channel or groove, with a
projection in the interior of the socket, this projection entering the depression c¹ at
the end of the groove. By this method of attachment, turning of the tube b and
therefore of the leather tip, is prevented during use of the cue.
During the introduction of the tube 6 into the socket d, the arms &* are pressed
together and thereby the leather tip is securely held by means of their inwardly
bent edges or jaws.

page_text: After withdrawal of the tube 6 from the socket d, the leather tip can be directly
removed, by reason of the spring arms, and replaced by a fresh one.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said iuveu-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A billiard cue the leather or other tip of which is secured in position by means
of a tube having spring arms provided with inwardly-turned edges or jaws and
adapted to be inserted into a socket mounted on the billiard-cue or stick so that
the said edges or jaws are firmly pressed into a projection on the leather tip, turning
of the tube and leather tip being prevented by a projection on the interior of the
socket arranged to engage with a groove provided in the tube, substantially as
described with reference to Figures 1 to 8 or to Figure 9 of the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 25th day of August 1896.
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.