Improvements in Means for Fixing Tips to Billiard Cues.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Fixing Tips to Billiard Cues.
I, LEON JEAN MARIE FRANÇOIS DECHEN, of 3, Rue de Saus, Alger, France,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a detachable tip carrier for fixing tips to billiard cues
which can be applied to any kind of billiard cue, irrespective of construction,
quality, shape or size.
The tip when fixed to the cue, cannot get loose, being only removed when worn
out, and even if from any unforeseen cause, it should be rendered unserviceable,
it can be instantaneously replaced.
The invention has moreover the advantage of enabling the players to keep by
them the tips which they may have selected.
The tip carrier is composed of a tube fixed to the billiard cue by a transverse
pin, the free end of the tube being internally screw threaded for the reception of
the externally threaded end of a second tube which is of a cylindro-conical
shape.
Against the free edge of the second tube lodges a shoulder on the tip, which
may be of varied form.
The head of the tip is tightly pressed against the second tube by means of
a nut which has its point of support against the base of the second tube, and
is engaged by a screw, which is divided into several branches or ribs having hook
shaped ends, which hooks penetrate the foot of the tip.
By the different modes of fixing the various parts, a perfectly rigid billiard cue
is obtained which notwithstanding can be easily taken apart for quickly replacing
the tip, in case of its being worn or an accident occuring.
Having thus described the principle of the invention, the object of which is to
substitute a mechanical method of fixing for the glueing of the tips on to the
billiard cues, as heretofore, some modifications of the invention will now be
described. The arrangement first described may be simplified by substituting a
straight screw for the screw with ribs or branches. the head of which said
straight screw should be sunk into the material of the tip or again the screw
may be arranged so as to be able to fix it to the tip by a transverse pin, and again
the tip may be attached to the second tube and kept thereon by means of a
transverse screw.
Finally, and in order to reduce the invention to the simplest form, the cylindro-
conical tube may be secured to the billiard cue by any means whatever.
Dated this 26th day of September 1898.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, LÉON JEAN MARIE FRANÇOIS DÉCHIEN, of 3, Rue de Saus, Alger, France,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement:-
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This invention relates to a detachable tip carrier for fixing tips to billiard cues
which can be applied to any kind of billiard cue, irrespective of construction,
quality, shape or size.
The tip when fixed to the cue, cannot get loose, being only removed when worn
out, and even if from any unforseen cause, it should be rendered unserviceable,
it can be instantaneously replaced.
The invention has moreover the advantage of enabling the players to keep by
them the tips which they may have adopted.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shows in longitudinal section my im-
proved method of fixing tips to billiard cues.
A is a tube fixed to the billiard cue X, by means of a pin or peg a.
The upper
free part of the tube A is internally screw threaded for the reception of a second
cylindro-conical tube B, on the upper part of which lodges the tip C by means
of its shoulder c. Of course these tips C may be manufactured in any form.
The said tip C is solidly fixed to the upper part of the tube B, by means of a
nut 1 which may be adjusted on the screw E against the base of the tube B. The
screw is divided into several branches e, whose extremities are hook shaped, which
hooks penetrate into the lower part of the tip C.
By means of these different methods of fixing the various parts C, B, A, and X,
a perfectly rigid billiard cue (see Fig. 2) is obtained which nevertheless, can be
easily taken apart for quickly replacing the tip.
Having now described the principle of this invention, the object of which
is to substitute for the glueing of the tips on to the billiard cues, as hitherto
adopted, a mechanical method of fixing same modifications will now be described.
To simplify the arrangement above described and represented in Fig. 1 a straight
screw E (see Fig. 3) may be used with its head imbedded in the material of the
tip or the screw E2 (Fig. 4) may be arranged in such a manner that it may
be fixed to the tip C by means of a pin or peg a. The tip C may also be fixed
directly to the terminating piece B of a billiard cue, by means of an ordinary
screw as shown in Fig. 5.
And finally and in order to reduce the invention to its simplest form, the tip
may be secured to the cylindro-conical tube B, as shown in Fig. 6 and the latter
secured to the billiard cue X by any suitable means.
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:-
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(1). A tip-carrier" for billiard cues rendering the tips easily interchangeable,
characterised be a tube A forming part with or secured to the billiard cue, sur-
mounted by a cylindro-conical piece B secured thereto against the upper edge of
which said piece B the tip C is tightly pressed by means of a screw E, with a
nut D, bearing against the base of the piece B the said screw E being capable of
being hooked on to, sunk in or pinned in or to the tip substantially as described
with reference to Figs. 1 to 4 of the accompanying drawings.

page_text: (2). The modified form of my invention shown in Figs. 5 and 6 of the accom-
panying drawing.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.