US256501A - John recktenwalt - Google Patents

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' l J. RECKTBNAWALT.

` CLAMPPOR HOLDING THE TIPS'OF BILLIARD GUES. No. 256,501.

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Patented Apr. 18, 1.882.

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UNITED STAT-'Fs' PATENT OFFICE.'

-JOHN RFOKTFNWALT, OF BUFFALO, NFW YORK, AssIeNOn OF ONF-HALF To JOHN KRFITNFR, OF sAMF PLACE.

CLAMP FOR HOLDING THE TI'PS OF BILLIARD-CUES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,501, dated April 18, 1882.

Application liledrJanuary 30l 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN RECK'FFNWALT, of Buii'alo, in the county ot' Erie and'State of New York, have invented certain new and uscful Improvements on a Glamprfor Holding the Tips of Billiard-Cues; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said iuvention, taken in connection with the accompany ing sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, :o and exact specifieatiomwhich will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my present invention is the production of a simple, cheap, and convenient clamp for holding the'leather tips of billiardcues to the wooden stick; and it consists essentially in such novel combination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed r zo ont in the claims.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate my said invention more fully, Figure 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a seetional elevation, of my improved clamp. Fig.

3 is a plan ofthe same, and Fig. 4 a sectional plan in line .r x Ot' Fig. l.

Like 'parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the iigures.

Ain these drawings represents the usual billiard-cue having on its upperend the common leather tip A. A, and to retain the same in position until the cement has thoroughly set and dried I employ va clamp consisting ot' a socket, C, connected 3,5l with a bifurcated yoke, D, by means of a T brace or bar, B. v'In the socket C there is an oblong or circular passage, A, Fig. 4, and transversely an opening, K. In this opening is located a clampingplate, I, the front surface 4o of which is concave orcurved, so as to lit the l external contour of the cue A, and thereby prevent marring the samewhen in use. This clamping-plate I is swiveled to a fasteningscrew, J, in any convenient and suitable manner, said clamping-screw being passed through a boss or hub, C', on the end of the socket C.

In the bifurcated Vpart D of this clamp is located a sliding nut, E,t`or a clamping-screw,

G', said clampingscrew being provided with This tip is glued onto the cue4 a swiveling plate or disk, H, the under side of 5o which is concaved to correspond with the con tourot the cue-tip to beV held by said plate. This nut E may be made of one piece, or it may be made in two pieces by providing the upper end of said nut with a screw-thread and applying a nut, F, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

In the bifurcated part D is a stop, d, to prevent the nut E and its clampingascrew G from being withdrawn from said part D.

In operation the clamp, as described, is ap- 6o plied to the upper end of a cue, andr securely fastened thereto by turning the clamping-screw J by the head J in such a direction as to cause the plate I to press upon said cue. Now the leather tip A is applied to the end of the V cue A, and then securely held thereto by causing the swiveled disk H to impinge upon the same with snflicient force applied through the screw GG. I

Billiard-cues vary considerably in size, and 7o to accommodate all the different sizes of the same the opening A inthe socket C is made large enough to accomplish that object; but since the position of the axial line of the cues varies with theirdiameter, I have made the upperclamping-screw, G', adjustable, and thereby enable its being always brought in line with said cue.

It will be readily perceived that this clamp (shown in nearly full size in the drawings) is So very simple in construction, and cau be supplied to the trade at a very low ligure. It is not only adaptedfor use in factories where the manufacture or production of billiard-cues is carried on, but it'is also a very convenient 85 and serviceable article for all billiard-table owners, who, with the assistance ot' a few of the clamps described, can always do their own repairs and retipping, thereby saving a large amount of money otherwise expended for 9o such repairs.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new 'and desire to secure to me oy Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a clamp for retaining the tips of billiard-cues in position, saidfclamp consisting essentially of a socket, C, having the clamping-screw J J and plate I, the connecting part B and bifurcated yoke D, provided with en adjustable nut, E, having the clampingserew G G and disk H, the whole being constructed und combined, substantially' in the manner as und for the use and purpose speeitied.

2. In billiard-cue clamps, the combination, with the body B, having the socket C, provided with :L vertical aperture, A, und transverse aperture K, and its upper end bifureated atD, of the sliding nutE, with the adjusting-screw G G and swiveled disk H, and the adjustingscrew J J', having e swiveling clamping-plate I, operating in said transverse opening K, the whole being constructed and arranged for operation, substantially as und for the purpose stated.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN REGKTENWALT.

Attest:

MICHAEL J. STARK, JOHN C. DUERR.

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