Abstract: The invention presents a hand held guide for cue shaft with an adjustable handle for playing billiard games. The guide comprises an elongated “V”-shaped guide containing said adjustable handle at least one axis that allow the pieces forming the axis to articulate up to 180 degrees. In addition, the handle contains at least one adjustable grip and the elongated “V”-shaped guide contains at least one concave groove to place the index finger or the middle finger when the person using the guide performs a closed bridge to wrap the guide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel and extendable pool cue bridge device designed to provide greater stability while shooting a ball in a pool or billiards game. The cue bridge device has a transparent bridge head, a telescoping shaft with extendable segments or tubes configured to extend and retract the overall length of the shaft, a band for securing the device to a wrist or arm of a user and a removably attached adjustable stabilizer configured to move along the telescoping shaft for improved support and stability. The transparent bridge head is removably attached to a distal end of the telescoping shaft and the band is attached a proximal end of the shaft via a pivot ball. The transparent nature of the bridge head enables a player to view the end of the cue tip while making a shot.

Abstract: A pocket leg that has a cylindrical body, a base, and a top that forms a pool ball pocket is provided. The pocket leg can be used to form a rectangular pool table with six pockets constructed with six pocket legs. To each pocket leg are attached two brackets. The brackets of the four pocket legs that define the corners of the pool table are perpendicular to each other and the brackets of the two pocket legs that are centrally located are parallel to each other. Six brace pieces fit into the brackets and form the base of a table. The table also includes a top, apron and bumper railing. Pocket legs can be used to form a rectangular pool table with eight or more pockets. The pocket legs can form square, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal, or other polygonal shaped pool tables.

Abstract: A hand held guide for use with a cue stick for aiding a user to establish a straight and smooth stroke. The user holds the elongated cylindrical support handle firmly, the cue stick glides through the transparent tube, the base plate swivels so that the player can line up his/her shot in order to achieve a perfect shot each time.

Abstract: A billiards cue attachment includes a cue ball having a passageway therein for receiving the tip end of a cue. This arrangement eliminates the need for a player to grasp the shaft of the cue with the bridge hand. Only one hand need be employed to grasp the butt of the cue. The billiards cue attachment also offers an alternative to using a bridge stick for short players who are unable to set a hand bridge close to the cue ball, eliminating the need to hold the cue stick with one hand and the bridge stick with the other hand.

Abstract: A pool shooting aid apparatus comprises a structure having an opening operable to accept a cue stick so that a tip and a portion of a shaft of the cue stick passes through the opening out of the structure.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for practicing with a cue stick is provided. The method may include mounting an adapter to the outer surface of a cue stick such that at least one portion of the outer surface of the adapter: extends in a direction parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the cue stick; and extends adjacent at least a portion of the back half of the cue stick. The method may also include moving the cue stick to slide the outer surface of the adapter against at least one guide surface. Movement of the cue stick is in a direction that extends along the central longitudinal axis of the cue stick and a minimum distance between the central longitudinal axis of the cue stick, and the at least one guide surface in contact with the at least one portion of the outer surface of the adapter remains constant.

Abstract: A rest for retaining billiards cue sticks and other implements, tools and instrument comprising a sheet of non-skid material having a top, a bottom, at least one peripheral edge, a top portion and a bottom portion, a pocket means positioned on the top portion containing a weight therein. The rest drapes over a table edge or other similar surface and retains a cue stick in a generally upright position.

Abstract: A pool clip for detachably connecting to a support surface may include a first clamp holding member for clamping to the support surface, a second clamp holding member for cooperating with the first clamp holding member for clamping to the support surface, a biasing device for biasing the first clamp holding member and the second clamp holding member, and each of the first clamp holding member and the second clamp holding member having a billiard cue holding surface adapted for holding multiple billiard cues of varying diameters and lengths. The first clamp holding member may include an aperture for cooperating with an insert member, and the insert member may include a depression area adapted for cooperating with a cue ball.

Abstract: A rest for use in playing snooker, billiards and similar games comprises a shaft (12) and a head (10). The head (10) includes a fitting (11) for connection to the shaft (12) and has a configuration such that it can provide support for a cue at a number of different spacings from a support surface on which the rest is placed.

Abstract: According to the invention there is provided a rest for a cue having an elongated shaft defining a central longitudinally extending shaft axis, a table engaging means, and an intermediate connecting means connecting the table engaging means with the shaft, the intermediate connecting means being shaped for avoiding an obstruction on the table adjacent a location where the table engaging means is to engage the table. There is further provided a means to restrain rotational movement of the intermediate connecting means about the shaft axis.

Abstract: Apparatus for holding and supporting a cue bridge stick while playing a game such as pool and billiards. The top of a body member holds the bridge handle, while the bottom of the body member connects to legs for supporting the body member from a flat surface such as the playing surface of a pool table. The legs extend downwardly from the body member a desired distance to rest upon the playing surface.

Abstract: According to the invention there is provided a rest for a cue having an elongated shaft defining a central longitudinally extending shaft axis, a table engaging means, and an intermediate connecting means connecting the table engaging means with the shaft, the intermediate connecting means being shaped for avoiding an obstruction on the table adjacent a location where the table engaging means is to engage the table. There is further provided a means to restrain rotational movement of the intermediate connecting means about the shaft axis.

Abstract: Apparatus for holding and supporting portions of a bridge and a cue stick utilized for playing games such as a pool and billiards. The top of a body holds the load, while the bottom of the body connects to a support for supporting the body from a flat surface such as the playing surface of a pool table. The support extends downwardly from the body a desired distance to rest upon the playing surface.

Abstract: The Cue Guard™ is a new and unique pool cue accessory because is covers the pool cue shaft with a light weight, pliable but sturdy material that is easily used and transported. The Cue Guard™ is slipped on before the pool cue is leaned up against something while it is not in use during a game.

Abstract: A cue rest including a plate defining at least one valley which can be mounted on the side of a pool table. The cue rest prevents a cue leaned against the pool table at the plate from sliding across the side of the pool table and onto the floor. The cue rest plate can define an undulant surface with multiple valleys and peaks. In an alternative embodiment, the cue rest plate includes at least one U-shaped member such that the cue can rest within the protruding members of the U-shape. The cue rest can be mounted to the side of the pool table by means of an adhesive, screws or a fastener either as an aftermarket retrofit or during the manufacturing of the pool table.

Abstract: An assistive cue device securely holds a cue and allows one-handed billiards play. In the preferred embodiment, a control guide slidingly mounted on the shaft grips the cue while a head of the device retains the tip of the cue in a cue hole. The head and a slide retainer ring are connected by a shaft, along which the control guide slides with the cue when the player moves the cue. The head has a plurality of supports, preferably in the form of sides of a polygonal cross-section, upon which the head can rest, each of which provides an elevation for the cue above the surface of the table. The player can change the elevation of the cue simply be rotating the whole assembly so that a different support of the head rests on the table.

Abstract: A billiards cue stroke guidance aid for supporting a billiard cue when performing a stroke or shot in a billiards game. The billiards cue stroke guidance aid includes a base and a support upwardly extending from the base. The support has a guide hole therethrough. A generally V-shaped upper guide is upwardly extended from an upper end of the support.

Abstract: A billiards training apparatus is described, the apparatus used in training a user to properly strike a cue ball. The apparatus comprises a housing having a front face, the housing coupled to a striking platform extending a length from the housing. An elongated striker is held in position by at least one support element, the elongated striker having a striking end and a terminal end. Further, the striking end extends out from the front face of the housing and is positioned parallel to the striking platform. At least one lateral movement sensing element is electronically coupled to at least one visual indicia element, the elements being lights in one embodiment of the invention. The elongated striker is positioned to be struck in-line by a cue, the lateral movement sensing element alerting the user to any non-linear movement of the cue relative to the striker.

Abstract: A cue rest for attachment to a suitable support such as the table top includes two opposed jaws with jaw surfaces for engaging opposed sides of the support. The jaws are connected for relative pivotal movement and are spring biased to the clamping position. Each jaw has a manually engageable portion on a side of the pivot axis opposite to the jaw surface and arranged such that the jaws can be moved to the release position by manual squeezing of the manually engageable portions. A generally U-shaped receiving surface is provided on at least one and preferably both of the jaw members, the receiving surface defining an open mouth at an edge of the manually engageable portion opposite to the jaw surfaces for receiving and cradling the cue within the receiving surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a simple and yet fully functional billiard bridge head guiding apparatus which permits angular control of a cue stick at both three axis compound angles and at an adjustable height off the billiard or pool table. Two gimbals are utilized in which the cue holding inner gimbal may be rotated about: 1) the longitudinal axis of a bridge stick; 2) the end longitudinal axis of a straight, bent, or curved elongated shaft; and 3) an axis normal to that of second axis above. In addition, the radial displacement of the gimbal from the first axis above is adjustable by means of shaft elongation. The bridge head does not require use of a custom bridge stick, but rather any cue stick is useable.

Abstract: A new billiard cue bridge comprising a roughly H-shaped base which supports a generally upside down U-shaped vertical standard attached at the cross-bar of the base. The attachment is hinged at the cross-bar in a manner that permits the vertical standard to be latched in the vertical position and to fold down substantially flat with the base in the horizontal position. Mounted on the vertical standard are upper and lower slidable members. The upper slidable member includes a hole through which a pool or billiard cue may be passed and supported. Located in the upper portion of the hole is a small friction pad that permits the bridge to be lifted and repositioned by the cue. The lower slidable member functions as an optional positive lock to assure that the vertical standard remains in the latched vertical position when in use.

Abstract: The Cue Putter is unique golf club, far superior in design to existing putters. It is designed to maximize a golfer's putting accuracy and consistency. The Cue Putter consists of a wooden club shaft, a guide block, rubber "O"-rings, and a transparent Plexiglas clubhead. The Cue Putter is designed to be used while kneeling on the green, with the putter's shaft aligned and used parallel to the putting surface. The Cue-Putter is gripped with one hand, and the stroke is executed primarily with the fingers and wrist instead of the arms and shoulders used with traditional putters. This improves the golfer's putting "touch" tremendously, because the innate precision of the hand and fingers cannot be matched by the larger muscle groups of the arms and shoulders. The Cue Putter also provides an ideal, "real time" view of the slope and undulation of the green, instead of a vague, "mental snapshot" taken while the golfer crouches down yards behind the ball prior to assuming his stance.

Abstract: An adjustable cue bridge includes a plurality of rotatable members, at least one of which has at least one cue receiving notch. The members are mounted about a body and are rotatable between a first overlapping, compact storage position to at least one deployed position in which the cue receiving notch in at least one of the plurality of members is positioned for supporting a cue. Detents formed in certain of the rotatable members are engaged by a detent paw in another of the rotatable members to releasibly lock the rotatable members in any of the storage and deployed positions.

Abstract: A body having a handle portion and a frame portion. The frame portion has an opening with one or more channels, which may be defined by adjoining walls, grooves or paired protuberances, for cradling the cue. A player braces the handle portion against the table and inserts the cue through the opening with the cue cradled in a channel. A slide having a slide channel may be disposed in the opening of the frame. A resilient member, such as a rubber O-ring, spans the frame and is connected to the slide. The player inserts the cue between the slide and the frame channel. The resilient member biases the slide channel against the cue, which, in turn, bears against the frame channel. The cue is thus captivated between the slide channel and the frame channel while the player makes a shot.

Abstract: A portable bridge for use with a cue stick in a game of billiards. The bridge has a base with support means. An upright arm is connected to the base. The upright arm has at least one opening therein through which the cue stick is slidably received. In one embodiment, the front of the base has a concave end formed therein. When the cue stick is lifted, the concave top of the base engages a portion of a cue stick, the back of the base drops away from the cue stick and the portable bridge may be lifted and moved as desired. In an alternate embodiment, a keeper is provided to be manually adjusted on the cue stick, which prevents the cue stick from being withdrawn through the opening in the upright arm. The portable bridge may be lifted and moved to a desired location. The keeper may be manually adjusted to permit withdrawal of the cue stick from the opening in the upright arm.