Improvements in Attaching the Tips of Billiard Cues.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 24th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Mar.. 1:95
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching the Tips of Billiard Cues.
I RUPERT ROBINSON, of Broomfield House, Dore in the County of Derby,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a simple method of attaching the leather tips of billiard
cues, so that they shall be firm and solid.
In carrying my invention into effect I prepare the end of the cue by turning it
down so as to leave a short central pin or projection, and I form upon this a screw
thread. I make the tip of leather and of sufficient depth to allow of a central hole
being made in it upon the under side to correspond with the pin upon the cue.
This hole may be prepared with a screw thread or if desired it may be left plain
but in either case it is so arranged that it will screw upon the pin.
In one case the prepared thread in the tip fits the thread upon the pin, in the
other the thread in the tip is formed by turning the tip round when forcing it upon
the pin.
The adjacent surfaces of the cue and tip may be cemented in addition if desired,
I may also instead of making the screwed pin out of the continuous wood of the
cue, make it of metal or other wood or material and let it into the end of the cue.
Dated the 19th day of April 1894.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.
I RUPERT ROBINSON of Broomfield House, Dore, in the County of Derby,
Manager, 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 relates to a simple method of attaching the leather tips of billiard
cues that have hitherto been simply glued or cemented upon the flat end of the cue,
and are constantly becoming loose.
I carry out the invention preferably as illustrated in the annexed sheet of
drawings.
I make the tip A, of leather or of other suitable material, and form a hole or
recess in the centre of the flat underside.
I make a corresponding hole in the en of the cue, but of greater depth, and I
prepare a pin of metal, wood, ivory or other material that is sufficiently strong for
the purpose, to fit into the two holes before mentioned. The pin is marked B.
I prefer to have the pin screwthreaded from end to end, so that it can be screwed
into the hole formed in the cue C, forming its own thread during the operation,
and accomplishing the same result in the recess of the tip. Such a pin would be
first screwed into the cue leaving a short end projecting therefrom, upon which the
tip would then be screwed.

page_text: I may use a plain pin if desired, or one screwthreaded only at one end, either
that which enters the cue, or the tip, and the pin may be either solid or tubular.
Cement may be used in addition to the above method.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The improved method of attaching tips to billiard cues, by means of a solid or
tubular pin let into both parts, as herein before described and substantially as
shown.
2. Attaching a tip to a billiard cue by means of a pin screwed into a hole
prepared in the cue, and its opposite end into a hole prepared in the tip, either with
or without cement, or glue, as hereinbefore described and shown.
Dated the 23rd day of January 1895
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Agent for the Applicant.