Patent ID: 8075415

Claim:
A cue stick handle having a longitudinal length extending from a joint screw end to a butt end, said cue stick handle comprising: a hollow exterior casing comprising one or more rigid, conical members extending along a substantial portion of the longitudinal length; an inner core constructed with a plurality of interconnected components, including a rigid inner core confined within the hollow exterior casing for a first length that is less than a total length of the inner core and that extends between an anterior end, which is proximate to the joint screw end, and an opposed posterior end, which is proximate to the butt end, wherein said rigid inner core is made of a hard, tensile material that has structural characteristics of rigidity that are substantially similar to steel and enables the cue stick handle to exhibit such structural characteristics in at least a forearm section of the cue handle, while other components of the inner core exhibit different structural and functional characteristics; and wherein the interconnected components are linearly coupled via one or more mechanisms at the anterior end and the posterior end of the rigid inner core, said mechanisms enabling a substantially permanent attachment of the rigid inner core to other components and includes one or more of (a) threaded grooves on end surfaces of the rigid inner core interlocked with threads on a portion of a component attached to the respective end surface of the rigid inner core, or vice versa; and (b) a mastic applied between connecting surfaces of the rigid inner core and adjacent surfaces of a component coupled to the connecting surface.