Patents by Inventor Stuart Gardiner

Stuart Gardiner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7194958
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Milliken Industrials Limited
    Inventors: Alan John Brasier, Stuart Gardiner
  • Publication number: 20070006763
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Brasier, Stuart Gardiner
  • Publication number: 20050018031
    Abstract: 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 a cloth, with part of the image on the bed cloth a nd 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, it, 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 co-ordinating portion of the image on at least one cushion cloth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Alan Brasier, Stuart Gardiner
  • Publication number: 20050018030
    Abstract: A gaming or cue-sports cloth comprises a major part by weight of wool, which comprises base fibres and surface fibres that form an upper surface of the cloth. The base fibres and the surface fibres are bulk dyed to a substantially uniform colour and, in addition, at least some of the surface fibres are provided with a graphic image using ink suitable for wool and blends thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Alan Brasier, Stuart Gardiner