An Improved Appliance or Implement for Shaping the Tips of Billiard Cues.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1892-Accepted, 3rd Sept., 1892
GUME DILE SERCITICATION.
An Improved Appliance or Implement for Shaping the Tips of
Billiard Cues.
1, Charles KELLER of 16, Rue de Phalsbourg, Nancy, in the Republic of
France, 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 improved appliance or implement for shaping the tips of billiard cues
consists in the manufacture and use of a frame of any suitable form and material in
which a visibly ovoidal cavity is formed, that is to say, a cavity which is widest at
its mouth and contracts gradually to its bottom in such a way as to suitably
embrace the clastic surface of the tip. The surface of this cavity is roughened,
so acting as a rasp or file, the nature itself of the substance used may be rough,
or else the cavity may have applied to it a suitable roughened substance, or be
rendered so.
The article having one or more cavities may be varied in shape, and I have
shown, by way of specimens, two such on the accompanying drawing.
In the arrangement shown in section in Figure 1, and in plan view in Figure 2,
the appliance or implement has several cavities of preferably dissimilar dimensions.
It is fixed on the floor or ou a vertical wall, or even it may have a suitable foot or
support. The tip of the cue is inserted in the cavity or in one of the cavities,
if there are several, and it will be sufficient to twist round the cue in order that
the leather tip may be rounded to the desired extent and in an even manner.
The rasping of the leather tip may be also effected by holding the cue firm
and using the tool in the same manner as the pieces of chalk are used by
billiard players. In this case, it may be of the form shown in Figure 3, or any
other suitable one.
The substance of which the appliance or implement is made may be either an
artificially grained substance, such as that used in emery mills, Hint, glass or any
other material sufficiently hard to file leather or it may be a natural granular
substance such as sandstone, or an artificial substance such as porcelain faience,
terra cotta, metal which has a grained surface or has been cut so as to form a
concave file or rasp of the above mentioned ovoidal form; or, finally, it may be any
suitable solid body having ovoidal cavities, on the sides of which there have been
fixed, by means of an agglutinant or by any other suitable means, the grains of
a sufficiently hard substance, as is done in the manufacture of sand paper or
polishing cloth.
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 :-
The improved appliance or implement for shaping the tips of billiard cues
hereinbefore described, and consisting essentially of an appliance or implement
with an ovoidal cavity or ovoidal cavities having practically the same form as the
tip, the surface of which is naturally, or is rendered artificially, sufficiently
roughened to act on the leather as a file or rasp.
Dated this 29th day of July 1892
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.