Milliken Industrials Limited

Alan John Brasier

Stuart Gardiner

A process is provided for printing a graphic image onto a cue sports cloth to form a cloth layout including a bed cloth and cushion cloths. The process comprises supplying the desired dimensions of the bed cloth and cushion cloths to a digital computer, accessing a digital image, and scaling and dividing the digital image to enable the image to be printed onto a cloth, with part of the image on the bed cloth and part of the image on at least one of the cushion cloths. The image is then printed onto the cloth using a digital printing apparatus and suitable inks to create a piece of printed cloth having on it a series of image portions making up the bed cloth and the cushions. When separated and fitted to the cue sports table, the bed cloth and cushion cloths co-ordinate to create a printed image having a portion of the said image on the bed cloth and a co-ordinating portion of the image on at least one cushion cloth.

Printed cloth

A composite fabric material for use in covering sports balls comprising two or more separate fabric materials affixed together to form a single material, the materials including at least an outer layer and a backing or support layer, is described.

Fabric for tennis ball covering and method for manufacturing the same

A fabric for use as a tennis ball covering and method to manufacture the same. The fabric has a felted outer surface composed of entangled fibres, said outer surface being provided with a three dimensional pattern thereon.

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Stonehouse, United Kingdom

Alan John Brasier