Improvements in Apparatus for Use in Re-tipping Billiard Cues.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Use in Re-tipping Billiard Cues.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK HOWARD, of "The Pegasus," Green Lanes, Stoke New-
ington, in the County of London, Billiard Saloon Proprietor, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to apparatus for use in re-tipping billiard cues whereby
the end of a cue and the face of a tip can be surfaced with mechanical accuracy.
In carrying out my invention I provide a support into which the end of the
cue can be held rigidly whilst being surfaced and at the front of the said support
I arrange a guide upon which a block carrying a file may be reciprocated for
the purpose of evenly filing the end of the cue which is carried in the said
support.
For facing the tip I provide a holder or dummy for the tip, the said holder
or dummy having a hollow or recessed end into which the rounded end of the tip
can be placed and being adapted to lie in the support for the cue whereby the
file can be caused to act upon the face of the tip in exactly the same way as it
acts upon the end of the cue.
In practice the support for the cue and the guide are made detachable so that
they can occupy little space and permit of being closely packed in a box contain-
ing the requisites for applying tips to cues.
Dated the 20th day of June 1899
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Apparatus for Use in Re-tipping Billiard Cues.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK HOWARD, of "The Pegasus," Green Lanes, Stoke New-
ington, in the County of London, Billiard Saloon Proprietor, 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: -
My invention relates to apparatus for use in re-tipping billiard cues whereby
the end of a cue and the face of a tip can be surfaced with mechanical accuracy.
In carrying out my invention I provide a support into which the end of the cue
can be held rigidly whilst being surfaced and at the front of the said support I
arrange a guide upon which a block carrying a file or the like may be reciprocated
for the purpose of evenly filing the end of the cue which is carried in the said
support.
For facing the tip I provide a holder or dummy for the tip, the said holder
Price 8d.1

page_text: or dummy having hollow or recessed ends or ferrules into which the rounded
ends of the tip can be placed and being adapted to lie in the support for the cue
whereby the file or the like can be caused to act upon the face of the tip in
exactly the same way as it acts upon the end of the cue.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can be
carried into practice by reference to the 'accompanying drawing, in which:
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of apparatus constructed according to my
invention for use in re-tipping billiard cues:
Figure 2 is a plan of the same :.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the file and the block carrying the same.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal elevation of the tip holder or dummy with a tip
placed therein; and
Figure 5 is an end elevation of the said holder.
Figures 4 and 5 are drawn to a larger scale than Figures 1 to 3.
a is a block serving as a support for the cue b, Figure 1, and e, e are pins on
the said block between which the cue can be held rigidly whilst being surfaced;
the tip end of the cue being placed in a V-shaped recess a made in a transverse
e is the guide or
block or head d and lined with cloth or other like material.
way which I form in the head d, the bed. f of such guide or way being advan-
tageously made of glass, in order to afford a good slippery and wear resisting
surface. y is the file and h is the block carrying the same and adapted to be
reciprocated in the guide or way e.
To make use of an apparatus of this construction for the purpose of evenly filing
the end of a billiard cue b, it is only necessary to place the cue between the
pins e, upon the block a as shown in Figure 1 with its end in the V-shaped
recess a¹ and to reciprocate the block h with the file g against the end of the cue b.
Figures 4 and 5 illustrate the holder or dummy which I provide for the tip,
the said holder consisting of a stick or rod i having different sized ferrules jat
its ends to suit different sizes of tips the said ferrules being notched, as shewn,
in order to grip the rounded or leather part of the tips and prevent them shifting
while being faced. The stick i with the tip k at its end being placed in the sup-
porta, the tip can be faced or filed in the same manner as the end of the cue by
operating the block or file holder has will be well understood.
In practice the support a for the cue and the guide e are made detachable, that
is to say, the support is provided with pins shewn in dotted lines at 1, and the
guide is made with corresponding holes to receive such pins. The two parts can
be therefore separated so that they will occupy little space and can be closely
packed in a box containing the requisites for applying tips to cues.
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. Apparatus for use in re-tipping billiard cues, consisting of a block or cue
support having pins for allowing the cue to be rigidly held in position, a guide
or way having a V-shaped recess for receiving and holding the end of the cue,
and a block carrying a file or the like and designed to be reciprocated in the said
guide or way, the whole being combined substantially in the manner herein before
described, and illustrated in Figures 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawing.
2. The use in combination with apparatus of the kind claimed in Claim 1 of
a stick or rod having hollow or recessed ends or ferrules adapted to hold billiard
cue-tips whilst being faced or filed, substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of the accompanying drawing.
Thn 20th day of March 1900.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.