US637877A

US637877A - Parlor-game cue.

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Publication number: US637877A
Application number: US70577899A
Authority: US
Inventors: Henry C Lehmann
Original assignee: EDWARD E PEEK; JOHN W RATH; LINCOLN E PARK
Current assignee: JOHN W RATH; LINCOLN E PARK; EDWARD E PEEK
Priority date: 1899-02-17
Filing date: 1899-02-17
Publication date: 1899-11-28
Anticipated expiration: 1916-11-28

Description

Patented Nov. 28, |899.

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NrTED STATES PATENT Fries..

HENRY C. LEHMANN, OF l/VATERLOO, IOVA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HIMSELF, EDWARD E. PEEK, JOHN W. RATH, AND LINCOLN E. PARK, OE SAME PLACE.

' PARLOR-GAIVIE CUE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,877, dated November 28, 1899.

Application filed February 17, 1899. Serial No. 705,778. (No model.)

To a/ZZ wir/0m, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY O. LEHMANN, a a citizen of the United States of America,and resident of the city of Waterloo, Black Hawk county, State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Parlor- Game Cues, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cues adapted for use in parlor games, in which the percussion applied to a ball or counter by means of a snap of a finger is imitated; and the objectof my invention is to provide a device which permits of such percussion being made with a more accurate aim in determining the direction of the counter and with a more direct blow thereto.

With this object in view the invention consists of such a construction and combination of parts as will more fully appear in the following description and as will be referred to in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l represents Ya perspective View of my invention, while Fig. 2' shows a longitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in both figures.

A represents a tube or barrel, formed of wood, book-board, or any other suitable material, centrally perforated, as shown in Fig. 2. Within said perforation, constructed of slightly less diameter and adapted to move smoothly within, is the divided rod or plunger B C.

The tip c of the rod C is of greater size than the body of the barrel A, as is also the finger-hold part B of the rod B, and projects beyond the ends thereof. The tip c', on account of its greater diameter, is prevented from slipping back into the barrel A, and when placed in position to impart movement to a counter and resting on the plane surface of the board is thereby raised to a sufficient height to allow of the blow being given to the middle portion of the counter. The tip c is furnished with a rubber head c2, secured within a slot in the anterior portion of tip.

The rod B has afinger-hold B', as is shown in drawings, facilitating the use of same when the rod is drawn partly out of the barrel A, and provided with a shoulder to prevent its being withdrawn into the barrel when released. The globular-shaped fingerhold Bis also provided with a slot for the admission of the rubber band E.

The inner end of the rod b is capped with a rubber disk b, and which renders noiseless its impact upon the inner end of the plunger C.

The plunger C is so constructed as to be about one-third the length of the barrel A.

At about the middle portion of the outside surface of the barrel A, on opposite sides thereof, are fastened the pins or lugs was. The rubber-band D, being rst looped around the barrel A and passed about the lugs m cc, is then drawn forward and slipped over and into the slot on the rubber tip of the plunger C at C2. In like manner a rubber band of greater diameter and strength is looped about the barrelA and about the lugs xm and thence drawn back to the slotin the end of the finger-hold B and slipped therein. The small cross-pieces terminating the lugs a prevent the hands from becoming disengaged with the barrel.

In operation the cue is held in one hand, with the finger-hold B' in the other, the rubber head of tip of rod C being placed close to the counter which is to be driven across the board. After the requisite aim has been obtained the finger-hold is released, when the shock of the impact produced by the impelling of the inner rubber-tipped end of rod B against the inner end of plunger C through the recoil of the rubber band E drives with a quick snapping blow the tip c against the middle surface of the counter and propels it rapidly toward its destination without shoving. The force produced by the recoil of the rubber band E now being exhausted, the lesser rubber band D, which had been stretched out on account of the outward movement of the plunger C, now in its turn recoils and draws the rod C into position within the barrel A, where it lies ready for use in another blow.

The division of the plunger into two parts, as shown, enables the user to secure a more IOO accurate airn and inflict upon the counter a quicker and more effective bloT than can be the case with a cue possessing a one-piece plunger, such as some which are now in use. The relatively less and greater sized rubloer bands, arranged as shown, are more easilyV adjusted and afford greater effect by aiding in the production of a snapping blow than could be secured by the luse of a single spring.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A parlor-game cue cornprisin g a cylindrical perforated barrel, a divided rod B C extending entirely through the barrel with enlarged tips on the outer extremities projecting with- Signed by me at W'aterloo, Iowa, this 14th day of February, 1899.

HENRY C. LEHMANN.

Witnesses:

JAMES J. KNAPP, HENRY F. RICKERT.