US2184053A - Stable compositions useful in the compounding of photographic developers - Google Patents

Stable compositions useful in the compounding of photographic developers Download PDF

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US2184053A
US2184053A US264847A US26484739A US2184053A US 2184053 A US2184053 A US 2184053A US 264847 A US264847 A US 264847A US 26484739 A US26484739 A US 26484739A US 2184053 A US2184053 A US 2184053A
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    • G03C5/26Processes using silver-salt-containing photosensitive materials or agents therefor
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  • formaldehyde may be added to a above-'mentioned dificulties involved in the use of paraformaldehyde as a source of alkali in a developing bath.
  • a further object is to provide a means whereby a solid polymer of formaldehyde, such as paraformaldehyde, may be employed in aqueous solution in connection with sodium sulflte without the resulting formaldehyde undergoing polymerization and thus decreasing I the source of formaldehyde in the solution.
  • Another and specific object is to provide in crystalline or powder form a composition which, when dissolved in water, will provide an appropriate source of formaldehyde for addition to a solution containing a photographic developing agent and sodium sulflte.
  • a further specific object is to provide a two-package photographic developer which may be sold in dry form and adapted for the making up of two stock solutions and the, preparation of the developing bath itself. Other objects will appear hereinafter.
  • a composition in dry powder form possessing the ability to be dissolved in water to produce a stable formaldehyde stock solution may be compounded by mixing in appropriate proportions paraformaldehyde sodium, suliite and a solid acid such as boric, glutamic, phenylacetic, citric, tartaric, malic acids or a buffering salt such as the alkali metabisulfites, the alkali bisulfites, the alkali borates, metaborates, monoand di-sodium phosphate, and the like.
  • Ammonium salts such as ammonium chloride are also suitable neutralizing saltsin the presence of the formaldehyde. I have found that such dry powdered compositions are stable, readily handled, and when simply dissolved in water in appropriate proportions, provide a highly satisfactory and stable formaldehyde stock solution which is not subject to loss of formaldehyde by polymerization.
  • the paraformaldehyde of M commerce is insoluble in water, but readily soluble in solutions of alkalis and solutions of sodium sulfite.
  • the main difllculty has been that the excess alkali required to get the paraformaldehyde into solution results in the above-mentioned polymerization.
  • the present; invention is based upon the concept of neutralizing the alkali by a suitable acid or bufler salt after the paraformaldehyde' has been placed in solution.
  • the excess alkali may be removed from the solution by a straight neutralization reaction' or the solution may be buffered by means of dior tri-basic acids or suitable bufiering salts such as those indicated above.
  • the solution then consists essentially of formaldehyde and water at a definite pH depending upon the composition of the bath.
  • the total concentration of alkali in the solution be as low as possible. While no definite low limit of pH of the solution can be set, this may be as low as two or three, the preferred range being from 3 to 11.
  • examples also include references to a typical composition which may be employed as the source of the developing agent. These two compositions may be referred to as the A composition and the B composition, the A composition being the source of the developing agent per se and the B composition being the source of the formaldehyde.
  • Example 1 B Paraformaldehyde .(trioxymethylene) grams 30 Sodium sulfite (desiccated) gram 1 Potassium metabisulflte (cryst.)
  • Example 2 B Paraformaldehyde ..grams 30 Sodium sulflte (disc.) gram 1 Sodium bisulfite (cryst.) grams 9.4 Water (about 100 F.) to make.. liter 1 A. Same composition as A COW tof
  • Example 3 B Paraformaldehyde grams 30 Sodium carbonate (desiccated) do.. 10 Sodium bicarbonate do 40 Water (about 100 F.) to make liter 1 A. Water (about 125 F.) (52 C.) liters 2.0 Sodium sulfite, desiccated grams 120.0
  • Example 4 B Paraformaldehyde grams 30 Sodium sulflte (desiccated)' do 20 Resorcinol do 32 Water (about 100 F.) to make liter 1 A. Sodium sulfite (desiccated) grams 100 Hydroquinone .do Potassium bromide do 6.3 Water (about 125 F.) to make liters 3
  • Example 5 B Paraiormaldehyde grams 30 Sodium metaborate (Na2BzO4.8H2O) I grams-.. 15 Water (about F.) to make liter 1 A.
  • Example 8 B Para-formaldehyde grams 30 Sodium sulfite (desc) 'do 24 Malic acid (crystals) do 12.! Water (about 100 F.) to make liter.. l
  • Example 9 B Paraformaldehyde grams 30 Sodium sulflte (desc do 11.9 Sodiumhydrogen malate (cryst.) do 14.8 Water (about 100 F.) to make liter- 1 A. Water (about 125 F.) (52 C.) liters 2.0 Sodium sulfite. desiccated grams 120.0 Borlc acid do 30.0 Hydroquinone do 90.0 Potassium bromide do 6 3 Cold water to make liters Example 10 Sodium sulfite "grams-.. Paraformaldehyde do Ammonium chloride cryst do- Water to make "liter-..
  • solution B is added to three parts of solution A 79 to make up the developing bath.
  • a solid acid salt or acid having a relatively large particle size should be employed 140 in compounding'the dry composition in accord- 90 once with the present invention, since the rate of 30 solution of the acid salt or acid should not be in excess of the rate of solution of the paraform- 3 aldehyde and sodium sulfiter If it is desired to use a solid acid in a relatively fine state of subdivision or small particle-size, agglomeration of the acid with suitable ln'ert binder may be desirable in order to reduce its rate of solution below 0 that of the paraformaldehyde.
  • alkali bi-sulfites may be substituted by the alkali metabisulfite and other acid salts or acids may be substituted for the metabisulfite.
  • the alkali sulflte may likewise be replaced with n 9 an alkali carbonate or other soluble alkaline salt 30') if proper provision is made for neutralizing or decreasing the alkalinity of the solution by use of an acid or buffer salt as herein set forth.
  • Various fog-restraining or inhibiting substances may be added to either of'the dry compositions, such as phenosafranine, Pinakryptol 2.0 Green, arsenious oxide, or the alkali salts of 120.0 arsenious acid such as sodium arsenite, potassium 30.0 ferrocyanide or other alkali ferrocyanides and 90.0 others.
  • phenosafranine varying 6.3 amounts may be used, but a suitable restraining 3.0 vaction is obtained when about one part in 150,000 parts of the mixed developer is used.
  • arsenious oxide sodium arsenite or 300 similar compounds, two grams per liter give representative and satisfactory results.
  • the present invention has many advantages, 1 the chief of which is the fact that it is possible to provide a two-package developer in dry form 2.0 in which the package containing the source of 1203 formaldehyde is provided with a means of stabilizing the formaldehyde when dissolved to make 909 up the B solution.
  • my invention one is thus 6.3 enabled to purchase the dry material in a form in which it does not deteriorate, either in the package or in the stock solution when made up.
  • the solid compositions of my invention constitute an entirely distinot and separate entity from the aqueous solutions resulting from dissolving these materials in water.
  • the dry mix- 1 ture contains certain specific chemicals, many of 2.0 these more or less completely lose their identity 120.0 in solution.
  • photographic solutions are rather highly complex in their composi- 90.0 tion and the ingredients must be present in def- 6.3 inite and exact proportions in order to obtain the 3.0 desired result.
  • a composition in solid form adapted to dissolve in water for the purpose of providing in- Solution a suitable source of formaldehyde for addition to a solution containing a developing agent and sodium suliite to prepare a photographic developing bath, said composition comprising paraformaldehyde, an alkaline salt. and a solid agent adapted to act as aneutralizlng or buffering agent.
  • a composition in solid form adapted to diesolve in water for the purpose of providing in solution a suitable source of formaldehyde for addition to a solution containing a developing agent and sodium sulflte to prepare a photographic developing bath, said composition comprising paraiormaldehyde, sodium sulfite, and a solid agent adapted to act as a neutralizing or bufiering agent.
  • a composition in solid form adapted to dissolve in water for the purpose of providing in solution a suitable source of formaldehyde for addition to a solution containing a developing agent and sodium sulflte to prepare a developing bath, said composition comprising paraformaldehyde, an alkaline salt, and a solid agent adapted to dissolve more slowly than the'other constituents and act as a neutralizing or buffering agent.
  • a composition in solid form adapted to dissolve in water for the purpose of providing in solution a suitable source of formaldehyde tor addition to a solution containing a developing agent and sodium sulfite to prepare a developing bath, said composition comprising paraformaldehyde, sodium sulflte, and a solid agent adapted to dissolve more slowly than the other constltuents and act as a neutralizing or bufiering agent.
  • the solid agent is a salt selected from the group consisting of the alkali metabisulfites, the alkali borates, alkali metaborates, and the monoand di-sodium phosphates.

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Cited By (6)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2506622A (en) * 1944-03-11 1950-05-09 Technicolor Motion Picture Elimination of preservative sulfite from photographic developers prior to use in color development
US2602757A (en) * 1948-04-09 1952-07-08 Morris S Kantrowitz Method and composition for producing silver coatings
US2805947A (en) * 1954-05-10 1957-09-10 Records Service Corp Photographic developer
US3050392A (en) * 1958-08-01 1962-08-21 Mergenthaler Linotype Gmbh Oxidation-stable developer compositions
US3284199A (en) * 1963-05-02 1966-11-08 Du Pont Buffered stop bath for interrupted photographic development
US3400079A (en) * 1966-12-12 1968-09-03 Riegel Textile Corp Formaldehyde absorbent composition

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2506622A (en) * 1944-03-11 1950-05-09 Technicolor Motion Picture Elimination of preservative sulfite from photographic developers prior to use in color development
US2602757A (en) * 1948-04-09 1952-07-08 Morris S Kantrowitz Method and composition for producing silver coatings
US2805947A (en) * 1954-05-10 1957-09-10 Records Service Corp Photographic developer
US3050392A (en) * 1958-08-01 1962-08-21 Mergenthaler Linotype Gmbh Oxidation-stable developer compositions
US3284199A (en) * 1963-05-02 1966-11-08 Du Pont Buffered stop bath for interrupted photographic development
US3400079A (en) * 1966-12-12 1968-09-03 Riegel Textile Corp Formaldehyde absorbent composition

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