Games using tangible projectile – Billiards or pool – Cue
Reexamination Certificate
1995-06-29
2001-06-26
Gerrity, Stephen F. (Department: 3711)
Games using tangible projectile
Billiards or pool
Cue
C473S044000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06251024
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Pool and billiard players typically use a pool cue having a handle end and a tip end for shooting a cue ball into other balls for the purpose of hitting selected balls into pockets, or against table rails. At times, other balls are in the way. One known method of avoiding other balls, is the “jump shot”.
Typically, the jump shot is performed by striking the cue ball at a sharply elevated angle with the cue tip. If properly executed, the cue ball jumps off the table, over the other balls to hit the desired ball in the intended direction. This takes considerable skill, and may damage the pool or billiard table, if the cue tip strikes the table surface, which is typically covered with a cloth material.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,123,807 discloses a detachable tip for billiard cues.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,605,240 discloses a cue tip which is placed over an existing cue tip.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, what is needed is a custom jump tip for pool cues, which will enable the user to strike the cue ball at a conventional angle, whereupon the cue ball will jump over a non-object ball to strike the object ball in the intended direction. The custom jump tip should be easy to install and remove, as it is only occasionally needed. Alternately, it may be permanently installed on a pool cue which has been “customized” exclusively for jump shots.
Other objects and features of the present invention will become apparent from a consideration of the following description which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein example embodiments of the invention are selected by way of illustration and not by way of restriction.
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Sewald Stephen A.
Summers Kenneth E
Aryanpour Mitra
Denk Paul M
Gerrity Stephen F.
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