US2577189A

US2577189A - Shuffleboard cue

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Publication number: US2577189A
Application number: US71958A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clarence E Hammett
Original assignee: YOUNG FRANCIS HAMMATT
Current assignee: YOUNG FRANCIS HAMMATT
Priority date: 1949-01-21
Filing date: 1949-01-21
Publication date: 1951-12-04
Anticipated expiration: 1968-12-04

Description

C- E. HAMMETT SHUF'FLEBOARD CUE Dec. 4, 1951 Filed Jan. El, 1949 CZarenceZHammeZZ,

INVENTOR.

Patented Dec. 4, 1951 SHUFFLEBOAKD our:

Clarence E. Hammett. South Gate, Calf., assignor to Young Francis Hammatt, Anaheim, Calif.

Application January 21, 1949, Serial No. 71,958

2 Claims. 1

My invention relates to a cue or pusher which is used when playing the game of shuiileboard,

and which is different from prior devices in regard to the method and means employed for pushing the shuiileboard disc and attaching the head member to the handle.

The primary object of my improvement is to provide means by which the shufileboard disc is more efiectively engaged when playing and whereby the head member of the device can be easily disjointed from the handle or reassembled for use.

Heretofore shuflieboard cues have been so constructed that continuous use has caused excessive wear due to the shufiieboard cue and disc being constructed out of wood. In other words the rubbing surface of contact on runways or lanes, plus weight, retards the free use of the device. The abuse that shufileboard cues are sub jected to on public courses, makes it necessary to frequently replace the head member or entire cue. This is expensive and makes it necessary to maintain a supply of parts or complete cues on hand. My invention enables the head member to be easily and quickly detached and either repaired or replaced at minimum expense. The head member is preferably made out of metal or other suitable wear resisting material and is light in weight and its points of engaging contact with the shuffleboard disc are evenly balanced so as to enable the player to more accurately play the game of shufileboard.

My improved shufiieboard cue has maximum strength of construction and life, and if deliberately abused by an irate player, it will not usually be broken. However, if broken or bent out of balance, a new head member can easily be installed without the use of tools by anyone, or the old head member can-be easily removed, repaired and replaced. The simplicity of my improved shufiieboard cue together with itslight weight, even balance of contact against the perimeter of the shufileboard disc, and small contact on the surface of the shuffleboard course, commends itself for use by players of the game of shufileboard. These features also facilitate manufacture of the device.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, Fig: 1 is a plan of my improved shufileboard cue, part 01' the handle being insection and a shuflleboard playing disc being shown in position to be engaged by my improved shuffleboard cue or pusher head member; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the shufiieboard cue or pusher head when removed from the handle; Fig. 3 is a.

2 side elevation of the shufileboard cue or pusher head member; and Fig. 4 is a section, at enlarged scale, on the line 44 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing, A indicates my improved shuifieboard cue or pusher head member, B a pusher handle, and C a shufiieboard playing disc with which said head is shown in contact in Fig. 1 for illustrating my improved device when in use. The pusher head member A is constructed out of a single piece or rod of metal or other suitable material, bent nearly midway between its ends into a furcation III, the forward side ends of which are shaped into a pair of curved shuiileboard disc engaging contact loops I2 and I3 and a pair of rearwardly extending flexible side arms l4 and I5. The rearward ends of these side arms at a spaced interval back of the furcation I and the contact loops I2 and I3 are curved inwardly and terminate rearwardly in a pair of parallel supporting arms I6 and H, which are spaced apart and adapted to removably engage the handle B in a corresponding pair of longitudinal grooves or channels I8 and I9 therein. The contact loops I2 and I3 are sufliciently spaced apart to insure accuracy and even balance at a proper distance apart while engaging the shufileboard disc and when playing the game of shuffleboard. The contact loops I2 and I3 are also struck upwardly and forwardly as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, so as to elevate the points of contact against the perimeter of the disc-like play element C, above the surface of the runway, lane or other play surface on which the shuiileboard game is played.

The downwardly slanting furcation is adapted to slide or glide over the play surface as the shuflleboard cue is applied to a play member such as C.

The shuflleboard cue or pusher head member A is easily detached from or attached to the forward end of the handle B, when desired, by the longitudinal arm members I6 and H, which engage in the corresponding pair of longitudinal key grooves or indentures I8 and I9. The rearward ends of the arm members I6 and I! are struck inwardly and formed with key shoulders 20 and 2| which engage in key indentures 22 and 23 in the handle bar. A sleeve 24 is adapted to slide longitudinally on the handle bar B and engage and hold the arms tightly secured in the key channels I8 and I 9 while said shoulders are in locked engagement. In this manner the head is supported rigidly and can be easily and quickly removed and replaced on the handle in case of any accident and when a head is bent or injured.

In use the furcation I0 forms a free sliding contact on the play surface and enables the player to poise the head member with its contact points suitably adjusted and evenly balanced against the perimeter of the shuffleboard disc and at most effective elevation, thus insuring accuracy of play. During this use the head member is removably maintained and prevented from turning by the handle. The key shoulders 20 and 2! are staggered irr positiorr longitudinallyso asv not to weaken the handle B by the relative position. of the indentures 22 and 23.

Modifications are contemplated within the: spirit of the invention and within the scope. 01 the following claims.

I claim:

1. An implement, for sliding: adisc like: play 7 member on a play surface, comprising .,a rod ,struc-'.

ture having forwardly and upwardly directed points of contact spaced apart laterally and ap from said points of contaetirra plane aboversaid. 25

slide.

2. An implement for propelling a disc-like play member on a play surface, comprising a wire structure formed with a plurality of upwardly extended points of contact spaced laterally apart for contact with the perimeter of said play member and a V-shaped furcation supporting slide member connected to and extended downwardly and pointed rearwardly between said contact members.

CLARENCE EL HAMMETT.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

' UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 587,980 Lind Aug. 10, 1897 950 5.69: Lammersen Mar. 1, 1910 1,138,922 Allen May 11, 1915 1320,6139. Sturgis June, 27,1922 2,239,391 Krause Apr. 22,, I941. 2,432,570 Gorsuch. V- Dec, 16;];94'1"