Improvements relating to Tips for Billiard and Bagatelle Cues and like purpose.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1897-Accepted, 18th Dec., 1897...
Improvements relating to Tips for Billiard and Bagatelle Cues and
like purpose.
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I, GEORGE BURLEY, of 89 Tavistock Crescent, Westbourne Park, London,
Watchmaker do hereby declare the nature of this inventon to be as follows:-
This invention refers to the method of fastening on the tips of cues used for
bagatelle, billiards, and like purposes.
Instead of attaching them by glue or by means of a socket with screw, I employ
a small tube or open end ferrule which fits tightly to the end of the stick. This
tube may be straight or very slightly tapered, and its outer end which receives
the tip is slightly contracted or turned inwards so as to hold it securely. The
end of the cue bears against the tip in the rear and helps to keep it firmly in
position. Tips attached in this way are not liable to come off or to become out
of truth with the cue.
My improved tip-holder can be made of bone, vulcanite, ivory, metal, hard
rubber, or any suitable material.
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S. S. BROMHEAD,
gent for Applicant, 97 Newgate Street, London, E.C.,
Improvements relating to Tips for Billlard and Bagatelle Cues and
like purpose.
I, GEORGE BURLEY, of 89 Tavistock Crescent, Westbourne Park, London.
Watchmaker, 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 invention refers to the method of fastening on the tips of cues used for
bagatelle, billiards and like purposes.
Instead of attaching them by glue or by means of a socket with screw, I
employ a small tube or open end ferrule which fits tightly to the end of the
stick. This tube may be straight or very slightly tapered, and its outer end which
receives the tip is slightly contracted or turned inwards so as to hold it securely.
The end of the cue may bear against the tip in the rear and help to keep it
firmly in position, or if referred the ferrule may be nicked, indented or chan-
nelled to form a bearing or shoulder on which the end of the tip can rest, with
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page_text: or without a metal disc. Tips attached in this way are not liable to come off
or to become out of truth with the cue.
I will now describe the invention with reference to the accompanying draw-
ings which shew three different forms of the billiards cue ferrule.
Fig. 1 shews an elevation of a cue tip ferrule made in accordance with my
invention.
a is the ferrule which preferably tapers as shewn. is a portion of the stick,
and c is the tip made of leather or other suitable material inserted from the back
or large end of the ferrule. The tip c is held in place by the taper of the ferrule.
and by a slight contraction in the end or an internally projecting flange f, and
is supported by the end of the stick behind it.
Figs. 2 and 3 shew an elevation and transverse section of another form of my
improved tip in which an annular recess d is added as a support to keep the
tip c in place. The tip in this form of ferrule can be inserted from the front end
and cemented if found necessary.
Fig. 4 shews a section of a modification of the annular support.
In this case the cue tip is retained in place by one or more V-or other shaped
tongues e cut in the side of the ferrule a and bent in under the cue tip c after it
is in place.
The ferrules may or may not taper, and would fit the billiard cue tightly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said In-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I leclare that what
claim is:
1. In a tip for billiards, bagatelle and the like the method of fixing by means
of a tube or ferrule, as herein shewn and set forth..
2. In a ferrule for holding cue tips, the contracted edge f with or without the
annular support d or the inwardly projecting tongues e, as herein described and
set forth.
Dated this 1st day of November 1897
S. S. BROMHEAD,
Patent Agent, 171 Queen Victoria St. London,