Patent ID: 7201666

Claim:
A combination construction for a tip and point ferrule of a billiard cue, comprising; a tip, having a small cylindrical shaped object beneath said tip, and a bush shaped point ferrule, formed of plastic, both located at the front end of a shaft; compression packing located between the tip and the bush shaped point ferrule; the tip formed from a grade F4 epoxy resin reinforced glass fiber material commercially available from NEMA (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) into a rivet or mushroom shape to allow an outer most part of the shaft that is shaped into a small cylindrical shaped object to be inserted into a cavity of the bush shaped point ferrule to connect the small cylindrical object beneath the tip, the compression packing being located between the tip and the bush shaped point ferrule to absorb the counter force of striking a billiard ball that is subjected to the tip and bush shaped point ferrule so as not to damage the tip and bush shaped point ferrule; said tip having an undercut head in the shape of a flat disc and the small cylindrical object beneath said tip to defining a rivet or mushroom shape, wherein the flat disc is about 12.75˜13.3 mm in diameter, and about 5˜8 mm in thickness, while said small cylindrical object beneath said tip is about 6˜7 mm in length; and wherein said bush shaped point ferrule of plastic material is of about 19 mm in height to allow said small cylindrical object beneath said tip and said small cylindrical shaped object of the outer most part of said shaft to be capped therein and inserted into said cavity of the blush shaped point ferrule.