Cue Stick Tip Tool
OwnerKevin D. Contestabileinventor
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Abstract
A cue stick tip tool includes a shaper that can contour the tip to a nickel or dime radius by using an abrasive formed within a hollow shaper body. Also included is a ferrule guide surface leading to abrasive material usable to trim a side of the cue tip while holding the ferrule clear of the abrasive material to avoid scuffing the ferrule. Another included tool has a concave cylindrical grid of upstanding pointed spikes that can be rolled over the cue tip to make a pattern of chalk holding indentations in the cue tip. The tool package preferably also includes a conical recess for burnishing a side of the cue tip, arcs to measure nickel and dime radii of the cue tip, and a container holding a chalk block and talcum powder—all arranged to be carried on a belt clip.
Claims22
A multi-purpose cue stick tip tool comprising:
- a shaper having at least two openings into a central cavity;
- abrasive material formed into a predetermined shape within the cavity;
- the abrasive material being recessed within the openings to a level below an outer surface of the shaper;
- one of the openings being formed as a guide for a cue tip ferrule;
- and
- the guide being shaped to support the ferrule while bringing a side of the cue tip into engagement with the abrasive material to shape the side of the cue tip while the ferrule engages the guide in a region clear of the abrasive to avoid scuffing the ferrule.
A multi-purpose cue tip tool adapted to shape a cue tip to either of two predetermined spherical radii, and to trim a side surface of a cue tip, the tool comprising:
- a shaper having a cavity and three openings into the cavity;
- the cavity being filled with abrasive material extending to and recessed within each of the openings where the abrasive material is contoured for shaping or trimming;
- the recessing of the abrasive material within the openings being arranged so that a ferrule of the cue tip cannot contact the abrasive material;
- one of the openings being formed as a guide surface for a ferrule of the cue tip;
- the abrasive material extending into the guide surface to engage and trim a side of the cue tip while the ferrule rotates against the guide surface clear of the abrasive material;
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- a surface of the shaper is formed as a generally concave recess having an array of upstanding pointed spikes to form indentations in the cue tip.
A cue stick tip tool comprising:
- a recess formed as a guide for a cue tip ferrule;
- abrasive material positioned within the recess;
- and
- the guide being formed to position the ferrule to bring a side of a cue tip into engagement with the abrasive material in the recess so as to shape a side of the cue tip while holding the ferrule clear of the abrasive material to avoid scuffing the ferrule.
A cue stick tip tool comprising:
- a generally cylindrically concave recess having a radius approximating a radius of the cue tip;
- the recess being grooved to form an array of upstanding pointed spikes adapted to form indentations in the cue tip;
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- the array of spikes is arranged to engage a cue tip in successive lines of contact as the spiked array is rolled over the cue tip.
A cue stick tip tool comprising:
- a container holding abrasive material that is recessed within rims of openings into the container;
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- the recessing of the abrasive material within the rims of the openings to the abrasive material being arranged to prevent a ferrule of a cue tip from being scuffed by the abrasive material while the cue tip is being shaped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.