Patent ID: 6890264

Claim:
A device in combination with a conventional billiard cue having an elongated, tapered shaft with a cushioned tip, the combination comprising: a) a body having a sidewall and an endwall, the sidewall having an outer surface and an inner surface, and the endwall having an outer surface and an inner surface, and a chamber, defined by the inner surfaces of the sidewall and the endwall, into which the shaft is inserted until the cushioned tip seats against the inner surface of the endwall; b) a soft cushion mounted at the outer surface of the endwall for impacting billiard balls; c) a radially inwardly facing groove formed in the inner surface of the sidewall; and d) an o-ring removably mounted in the groove for seating against and frictionally engaging a radially outwardly facing surface of the tapered shaft of the billiard cue, thereby removably mounting the body to the conventional billiard cue at the shaft's tip.