Billiard cue

Abstract

Disclosed is a billiard cue that realizes weight reduction of a top end portion of a shaft without reducing structural strength, that improves stability and controllability in hitting a ball, and that gives a player a comfortable feeling hit and fulfilling sensation of billiard play. This billiard cue is a single rod-shape body including a butt and a shaft connected to each other through a joint. The shaft is provided with a hollow section running inside of the shaft along the center axis in the longitudinal direction, and an internal support structure is arranged within the hollow section to support the hollow section from inside.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a billiard cue, and particularly to a billiard cue having a structure where a butt and a shaft are connected to each other through a shaft and formed as a single rod-like body. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] Billiard cues that are widely used today are usually constructed by a shaft and a butt which is attached to the back end of the shaft, and the shaft and the butt are connected to each other and formed into a single rod-like body. As for a shaft of a billiard cue, it is critical to adjust its weight, hardness, and compression characteristics for absorbing hitting force so that they all have desired values. [0005] Also, this kind of billiard cue as a whole is required to have appropriate hardness for accurate shots by giving some flexibility to the top end side of a shaft which hits a ball and by giving hardness to the back end side of the shaft which is connected ...

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Benefits of technology

[0008] An object of the invention is to provide a billiard cue that solve the above problems, that enables a player to experience different feelings of hitting a ball easily, that is easy to control a ball, that can improve a sensation from sound and a subtle feeling conveyed to a player's hand, that is structurally durable to impacts and difficult to break, that is easy to reduce weight of the top end portion of a shaft, and that gives a player a comfortable feeling hit and fulfilling sensation of billiard play.

[0023] The following outstanding effects are obtained from the billiard cue of the present invention.

[0025] According to the present invention, it becomes easy to control a ball and improve a subtle feeling conveyed to player's hand.

[0026] According to the present invention, strength of the entire stick of a billiard cue is improved. Particularly, strength of the top end of a shaft is remarkably improved compared to a conventional pipe-type shaft and durability to breakage and damages is also greatly improved compared to a conventional one.

[0027] According to the present invention, sizes, dimensions, positions, materials of the hollow section and the internal support structure within a billiard cue can be arbitrarily decided. Therefore, in aiming at weight reduction of the top end side of a shaft, there is a lot of flexibility when designing the hollow section and the internal support structure to suit players' preferences.

[0028] By employing a structure where other member such as an elastic material is placed between the ferrule section and the tip section of the shaft, the absorption of impact of a ball is improved and ball contact duration is extended. Thus, a player's feeling of billiard play is improved.

Problems solved by technology

However, since the top end side of the shaft is hollow and coreless, a player is unable to experience a subtle feeling of ball hitting easily.

Moreover, since the structure of such billiard cue is that a hole or a hollow is provided inside, the billiard cue is susceptible to vertical and horizontal impacts and easy to break.

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