An IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE CUES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Greenwood and Julius Fabian, both
of Hoxton, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "An
IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE CUES.”
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Sealed the 19th August 1870, and dated the 17th June 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Greenwood
and Julius Fabian at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 17th June 1870.
We, THOMAS GREENWOOD and JULIUS FABIAN, both of Hoxton, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE CUES," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention has for its object to render a billiard or bagatelle cue
capable of being readily converted into a walking stick, whereby the
hand of a player by its frequent use in a more portable form may
more readily accustom itself to the use of the cue, which is well known
to he of advantage in playing. For this purpose we divide the cuc at
or near the middle, and connect the two parts by a socket, or by screwing
the one to the other. The handle or butt end of the cue we make

page_text: hollow to receive the other or smaller part, which is unscrewed and
enclosed therein, thus forming a walking stick, the butt being closed
by a suitable cap. We also provide a ferrule to be screwed on the
smaller end of the butt in place of the part of the cue removed, to
prevent damage to the socket or screw joint when employing the cue
as a walking stick.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Greenwood and Julius Fabian in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th December 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
GREENWOOD and JULIUS FABIAN, both of Hoxton, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Thomas Greenwood and Julius Fabian, Her
special licence that we, the said Thomas Greenwood and Julius Fabian,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Thomas Greenwood and Julius Fabian, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD
AND BAGATELLE CUES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Thomas Greenwood and Julius Fabian, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Greenwood and Julius
Fabian, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon (that is to say) :-
Our Invention has for its object to render a billiard or bagatelle cue
capable of being readily converted into a walking stick, whereby the
hand of a player by its frequent use in a more portable form will better
accustom itself to the use of the cuc, which is well known to be of
advantage in playing. For this purpose we divide the cue at or near the
middle, and connect the two parts by a socket joint, or by screwing the
one to the other. The handle or butt end of the cue we make hollow to
receive the other or smaller part, which is unscrewed and enclosed
therein, thus forming a walking stick, the butt being closed by a suitable
cap. We also provide a ferrule to be screwed on the smaller end of the
butt in place of the part of the cue removed to prevent damage to the
socket or screw ioint when employing the cue as a walking stick.
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures
marked thereon (that is to say) :—
Our Invention has for its object to render a billiard or bagatelle cue
capable of being readily converted into a walking stick, whereby the
hand of a player by its frequent use in a more portable form will better
accustom itself to the use of the cuc, which is well known to be of
advantage in playing. For this purpose we divide the cue at or near the
middle, and connect the two parts by a socket joint, or by screwing the
one to the other. The handle or butt end of the cue we make hollow to
receive the other or smaller part, which is unscrewed and enclosed
therein, thus forming a walking stick, the butt being closed by a suitable
cap. We also provide a ferrule to be screwed on the smaller end of the
butt in place of the part of the cue removed to prevent damage to the
socket or screw joint when employing the cue as a walking stick.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
In Figures 1 and 2 our Invention is illustrated in the form of a cue
and of a walking stick respectively; Figure 3 is a central longitudinal
section of the same when arranged as a walking stick showing the small
end of the cue disposed within the "butt;” and Figure 4 shows detached
views of the several parts used to form a cuè and a walking stick.
The cue shown complete in Figure 1 as before mentioned is divided
into two parts A and B, of which the top part B, or that of smaller
diameter, is also the shorter to admit of its being enclosed within the
butt A, which is bored or made hollow to receive the part B, as shown
in Figure 3. The two parts A and B are united at C by a screw joint,
the screw pin a fixed in the end of one part being received in a corre-
sponding screwed socket & recessed into the corresponding end of the
other part of the cuc. The butt end of the part A is covered by a cap D
screwed on or otherwise attached, so that the part B is completely
enclosed. Thus the preservation of the leather tip with which the cue
is pointed as usual is ensured when not in use. E is a metal ferrule to
be screwed on to the smaller end of butt A, as shown in Figure 3, when
used as a walking stick, to prevent damage to the screw pin a. This
ferrule also serves to protect the screw socket made in this end of the
part A when the pin a is carried on part B, in which case the ferrule E

page_text: instead of having a screw hole tapped in it would be furnished with a
pin to fit into the said socket in the small end of part A. The weight of
the cue being the same in either form becomes familiar to the hand,
which proves advantageous in playing billiards or bagatche.
Having described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of 5
performing the same, we declare that what we claim as our Invention
to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
rendering a billiard or bagatelle cue adaptable for use as a walking
stick, substantially as set forth and illustrated in the Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Greenwood, for myself and 1
on behalf of the said Julius Fabian, have hereunto set my hand
and scal, this Fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy.