US784090A - Billiard-cue. - Google Patents

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v PATENTED MAR. 7, 1905. J. N. WHITEHOUSE & J. BENDER. BILLIARD CUE.

APPLIOATION FILED 00T.15.1903.

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Patented March 7, 1905.

@li o JOHN N. Wl-ll'lTEHOUSE AND JACOB BENDER, ()F N EW il'UltK, N.

BIILMARD CUE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,090, dated March 7, 1905.

Application filed October 15, 1908. Serial No. 177,165.

To all 111710111, it may concern:

Be it known that we, JonN N. WHITE- HOUSE and JACOB BENDER, citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Billiard -Cues, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to the balancing of billiard-cues and to the construction of the handle end of the same, so that when complete the one will have the same appearance and effect as if made in the usual Way of two pieces of different kinds of wood, the object being to produce at small cost a single-piece cue equal to or better.than the two-piece cues in common use.

In the accompanying drawings, to which reference is made, and which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cue, showing the balancing-weights, Fig. 2 illustrating the first operation. Fig. 3 illustrates the completed cues; and Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 are enlarged cross-sections illustrating the steps of manufacture, the sections being on the dotted lines in the other figures.

In the drawings, 2 designates the body of the cue, made of a single piece of wood. The butt of the one has a covering 3, of celluloid, hard rubber, or other similar material, preferably celluloid, of any desired color. The cue is balanced by transverse plugs 4 l, of metal, inserted in holes bored in the cue. These may be distributed as experience dictates, and a "reater or less number of plugs may be used to produce cues of different Wei hts, and the plugs may be of uniform or of different sizes, so that not only accurate weights of cues may be produced, but so that by differentiating the location of the plugs accurate balancing of the cue may be attained. By preference the plugs are put in alternately along different diameters. The stick is then formed with shallow depressions 5 in its surface in any form desired, preferably flashed in points 6, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. These depressions are, by preference, formed by compression, as by squeezing in a die or press with proper mandrels under heavy pressure. After the depressions have been formed a strip 7 of thin celluloid, hard rubber, or similar material is wrapped around the cue, so as to cover the depressions 5, as shown .in Fig. 5. Then around the sleeve of celluloid is wrapped a covering 8, of some proper and suitable material for the nu'pose -such as cloth, leather, or the like-and pressure is then applied to the covering 8 around the stick, which forces the material 7 down into the depressions, where they adhere, as shown at 6 6, Fig. 7. This done, that portion of the outside material over the raised portion of the one between the depressions is removed by sandpapering, grinding, or in any other suitable way. ln this way we produce a one of a single piece of wood and which one is the same in appearance as if made in the usual and more expensive way of two dill'erent kinds of wood. Furthermore, our new one is superior to the two-piece cue, for the reason, first, that the covering at the butt of the cue presents a permanent, smooth, and attractive surface for the player to grasp and which can be easily kept cleaned and polished, and, second, the plugs of metal inserted for balancing and weighting the one are covered by the outside permanent covering of cclluloid or like material and held firmly in place thereby.

All standard ones which are made of a sin.- gle stick of wood must be weighted and bal anced by metal inserted at the butt; otherwise the butt would have to he too large .in diameter. When the cue made of two pieces of wood, the butt is made of more dense and heavier wood than the front portion of the cue, so that this in itself properly weights and balances the butt of the one. B y our invention we are enabled to produce a single-stick one of standard size at the butt and one of standard weight and balance at comparatively small cost, and atthe same time the one is attractive in appearance, smooth, clean, durable, and .in all respects meets the requirements of a practical and fastidious billiard player.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim. as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A billiarchcue made of one piece of wood and having the tapering butt thereof over and having the tapering butt thereof over- 1 extended portions Which are inlaid into the 10 laid with celluloid said overlay being formed material of the cue, substantially as shown With spaced extendedportions 6, 6 which are and described. inlaid lnto the material of the cue, substan JOHN N WHITEHOUSE tially as described.

2. Abilliard-cue made of one piece of Wood JACOB BENDER' l/Vitnesses:

H. A. WEsT, MATTHEW BURNS.

laid With celluloid, said overlay being formed at its smaller end with spaced and tapering

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