Allan G Mccarty, Age 811563 Arcadia Dr, Jacksonville, FL 32207

7431655, Oct 7, 2008

Jul 10, 2003

10/616820

Allan McCarty - Jacksonville FL, US
Stephen Titus - Daytona Beach FL, US

Clawson Custom Cues, Inc. - Jacksonville FL

A63D 15/08

473 44

A billiard cue includes a shaft having a hollow bore extending for a predetermined distance from a first end of the shaft to reduce the tip end weight of the shaft. In one aspect, where the shaft is formed of a composite material consisting of fibers in a binder, such as carbon fibers in an epoxy resin, the bore forms an outer wall in the tip end of the shaft having a thickness between about 0. 005 and about 0. 05 inches The shaft material has a modulus of elasticity of at least 4. 3×10psi. The bore extending from the first end of the shaft, the thin wall thickness of the tip end of the shaft and the material forming the shaft combine to decrease the mass of the tip end of the shaft while maintaining substantially all of the stiffness of a conventional solid wood shaft formed of a hard maple to minimize buckling of the tip end of the shaft and thereby substantially decrease deflection of the cue ball from its intended path of movement along a path parallel to the stroke axis of the shaft. The tip end bore may be left hollow or filled with a light weight, non-structural material. The hollow bore is equally applicable to shafts formed of wood.

2008002, Jan 31, 2008

Dec 1, 2006

11/607453

Stephen Titus - Daytona Beach FL, US
Thomas Black - Merrimack NH, US
Allan McCarty - Jacksonville FL, US
Paul Costain - Lakeland FL, US

Clawson Custom Cues, Inc. d/b/a Predator Products - Jacksonville FL

A63D 15/08
C01B 35/00

473044000, 264129000, 423276000, 473001000

Cue sticks, shaft sections of cue sticks, and methods of using such devices are disclosed, where the devices are configured to reduce the phenomenon of cue ball deflection. In particular, limits upon the mass of the cue stick in a section extending from the tip to a predetermined distance toward the butt end are revealed to improve cue ball deflection characteristics. Other embodiments of the invention place a lower limit on the bending stiffness of the tip end of a cue stick or shaft to reduce accentuation of cue ball deflection under high offset/high velocity conditions. As well, an upper limit on specific section modulus is described for deterring the phenomenon of double strike in off center ball strikes.

6110051, Aug 29, 2000

Nov 25, 1998

9/200244

Allan McCarty - Jacksonville FL
Steve Titus - Jacksonville FL

Lorraine C. McCarty Trust - Royal Oak MI

A63D 1508

473 44

A billiard cue includes a shaft having a hollow bore extending from at least a predetermined distance from a first end toward a second end. The bore forms an outer wall in the shaft having a thickness between about 0. 03 and 0. 05 inches. The shaft is preferably formed of a composite material consisting of fibers in a binder, such as carbon fibers in an epoxy resin. The shaft material has a modulus of elasticity of at least 4. 3. times. 10. sup. 6 psi. The bore extending from the first end of the shaft, the thin wall thickness of the shaft adjacent to the first end and the material forming the shaft combine to decrease the mass of the tip end of the shaft while maintaining substantially all of the stiffness of a conventional shaft formed of a hard maple to minimize buckling of the tip end of the shaft and thereby substantially decrease deflection of the cue ball from its intended path of movement along a path parallel to the stroke axis of the shaft.

4946125, Aug 7, 1990

Jun 26, 1989

7/372705

Allan McCarty - Royal Oak MI

A47F 500

2483167

A holder for supporting an article, such as a pair of eyeglasses, on a support surface. The holder includes a housing having spaced top and bottom walls innerconnected by a back wall and an open end opposed from the back wall. Resilient article support members are mounted on the top and bottom walls of the housing with opposed facing surfaces disposed in substantial registry to define a resiliently openable cavity between such opposed surfaces of the resilient article support members for slidably and releasably supporting an article therebetween. The holder is removably mountable on a support surface via a planar fastener having spaced first and second legs slidably penetrable with the support surface and a central clip portion disposed between and connected to the first and second legs which slidably receives a complimentary shaped exterior peripheral recess formed in the top wall of the housing.

5725437, Mar 10, 1998

Sep 29, 1994

8/314864

Allan McCarty - Royal Oak MI
Steve Titus - Whitmore Lake MI

A63D 1514

473 49

A ferrule mounted on one end of a billiard/pool cue shaft has greater compressibility than the compressibility of the shaft to compress on impact of a tip mounted on the ferrule with a ball to absorb a portion of impact forces and to provide easy outward flexure with minimal buckling of the end of the shaft during impact. A bore extends a predetermined distance from the one end of the shaft toward a butt end of the shaft. The bore in the shaft communicates with a bore in the ferrule when the ferrule is mounted on the shaft. The ferrule is mounted on the shaft by means of a tenon formed on one end of the shaft or on the ferrule, which tenon tightly engages the other of the ferrule or shaft. The tip has a smaller than conventional radius to centralize impact forces toward the line of stroke extending along the longitudinal axis of the shaft.

4723748, Feb 9, 1988

Sep 10, 1986

6/905882

Allan McCarty - Royal Oak MI

A47G 2512

2483112

An article holder for mounting articles on interior surfaces of a vehicle. The article holder includes a support member shaped to conform in a releasable manner to the article. The article holder includes a mounting means which is removably insertable into a fastening member mountable in an interior fabric surface of the vehicle. The fastening member is removably insertable through the fabric on the door, headliner or carpeting or floor of the vehicle.

6162128, Dec 19, 2000

Mar 27, 1997

8/825249

Allan McCarty - Royal Oak MI
Steve Titus - Whitmore Lake MI

The Lorraine C. McCarty Trust - Royal Oak MI

A63B 6700

473 49

A ferrule mounted on one end of a billiard/pool cue shaft has greater compressibility than the compressibility of the shaft to compress on impact of a tip mounted on the ferrule with a ball to absorb a portion of impact forces and to provide easy outward flexure with minimal buckling of the end of the shaft during impact. A bore extends a predetermined distance from the one end of the shaft toward a butt end of the shaft. The bore in the shaft communicates with a bore in the ferrule when the ferrule is mounted on the shaft. The ferrule is mounted on the shaft by means of a tenon formed on one end of the shaft or on the ferrule, which tenon tightly engages the other of the ferrule or shaft. The tip has a smaller than conventional radius to centralize impact forces toward the line of stroke extending along the longitudinal axis of the shaft.