| 摘要 |
A ferrule (16) mounted on one end of a billiard/pool cue shaft (12) has greater compressibility than the compressibility of the shaft to compress on impact of a tip (18) mounted on the ferrule with a ball (74) 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 (36) extends a predetermined distance from the one end of the shaft toward a butt end (14) of the shaft. The bore (36) in the shaft communicates with a bore (46) in the ferrule when the ferrule is mounted on the shaft. The ferrule is mounted on the shaft by means of a tenon (50, 52, 54, 56, 60) 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.
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