US1282096A - Billiard-cue. - Google Patents

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A. F. IVlcDADE.

BILLIARD CUE.

APPLICATION HLED JUNE 24.1918.

1 ,282,096. Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED FRANKLIN MCDADE, 0F LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD T0 CHAS. JACOBSON AND ONE-THIRD TO HENRY LOEIB, BOTH OF LITTLE ROCK,

ARKANSAS.

BILLIAED-CUE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1918.

Application filed June 24, 1918. Serial No. 241,613.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED FRANKLIN MCDADE, of Little Rock, in the county of Pulaski, and in the State of Arkansas, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Billiard-Cues, and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to the attachment of tips to billiard cues. Ordinarily the tips are secured by glue, which of necessity because of the time required for the glue to set, is a slow process, and besides, as a clamp must be employed to hold the tip in place while the glue is setting, there is danger that the one will be warped. The object of my in vention is to attach the tip by means that will dispense with the use of glue and its objectionable incidents, and enable the work to be done easily and quickly, and by a simple operation that calls for no special skill, and with no impairment of the quality of the cue, and to this end my invention consists in the tip-attaching means substantially as hereinafter specified and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side View partly in longitudinal section of a cue having its tip attached in accordance wiith my invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the parts shown separated, and before the attaching operation has been performed;

F ig. 3 is a detail view in side elevation, of the metal pivot or attaching member, showing its form before use.

In the practice of my invention I take a cue of familiar construction that is composed of the stick 10, reduced at its ballstriking end to provide a stem 11, a sleeve, or ivory 12 that fits over the stem; and

a tip 13, of leather, that is applied to the flush ends of the bushing and stem, against which its fiat inner face bears. The stem 11 is nicked or cut to provide a longitudinal slit 14:, extending inward from its outer end, and into such slit is placed a flat metal strip or blade 15 that is split or forked at one end to provide two prongs or fingers 16, which before use, are bent slightly out of the plane of the body of the blade, with their convex sides outermost. When thus inserted in the slit 14, the prongs project beyond the stem 11. The sleeve 12 is now slipped upon the stem, and next the tip 13 is applied to the ends of the prongs 16, which are preferably sharp, and by blows upon the tip, as by striking it against the floor or other object, it is driven upon the prongs, and simultaneously the blade 15 is driven farther into the stem, and the prongs are bent or turned laterally outward into the body of the tip, in opposite directions, and form hooks embedded therein, as shown best in Fig. l, which securely hold the tip, such outward bending of the prongs taking place because of the initial bend given to them as shown in Fig. 3. The sleeve or ferrule encircling the stem prevents the latter from being split by the driving of the blade 15 into it, and at the same time assures such a tight grip of the stem on the blade as to firmly hold the latter and the tip, to the one.

I claim A cue having tip-attaching means, consisting of a sleeve surrounding the stick at the tip end, and a blade entering the sleevesurrounded portion of the stick and reaching substantially from side to side of the stick-inclosed portion and expanding the latter against the interior of the sleeve, and having an integral pronged extension embedded in the tip.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

ALFRED FRANKLIN MoDADE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 4 Washington, D. 0.

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