US 7,452,282 B2Granted

Pool cue

OwnerMichael Gulyassyinventor

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Abstract

A cue stick for use in the game of billiards having a one-piece ferrule-tip. The cue stick does not employ a conventional wood cue tip but rather has a modified ferrule-tip which serves as a resilient tip for striking a cue ball. The cue stick of the present invention has one embodiment for causing a struck cue ball to be jumped over an obstructing ball by elevating the handle of the cue stick to an appropriate height, which is lower than if a conventional cue stick were used, and striking the cue ball at an appropriate angle with an appropriate amount of force, which is less than if a conventional cue stick were used. The cue stick having a ferrule-tip of the present invention thus enables the player to strike a cue ball with a lower elevated angle and less force than with a conventional cue stick having a conventional tip, thereby facilitating the ball-jumping effect.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A jump/break cue for jumping a cue ball and for breaking a rack of pool balls, said jump/break cue comprising:

a shaft having a striking end region and a second end, wherein said shaft is progressively tapered so as to be more narrow towards said striking end region than said second end, said shaft comprising a tenon extending in one direction from said striking end region;
and
a one-piece ferrule-tip permanently disposed on said tenon of said striking end region of said shaft, said ferrule-tip being formed from a C-grade phenolic and comprising a cylindrical body extending in the one direction to form a hemispherically rounded, smooth, grooveless crown and bore for permanently attaching said ferrule-tip to said tenon, said crown serving as the striking tip for a selected one of striking a cue ball and causing the cue ball to jump in response to the cue being inclined relative to a table where the cue ball is resting or driving the cue ball into a rack of balls to break the rack, wherein said ferrule-tip is made of a material having a hardness between 90 and 95 on the Shore-D scale and is suitable for effecting the energy transfer from said ferrule-tip to the cue ball and to cause the cue ball to jump an intermediate ball.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/506,324Filed 18 Aug 2006 · continuation in part
Priority: 7 Jan 2002
Published: US 2007/0066411 A122 Mar 2007
Granted: 18 Nov 2008
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

A63D 15/12
Cues: tip fastenings
A63D 15/08
Billiards, e.g. carom billiards or pocket billiards; Billiard tables: cues
A63D
Bowling games

Family

Application60/346,369Us provisional application · filed 7 Jan 2002
Application10/334,626Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 31 Dec 2002
US 7,097,570 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 29 Aug 2006
US 2007/0066411 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Mar 2007
US 2003/0166419 A1Published application
US 7,452,282 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.