US2199904A - Photographic developer - Google Patents

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US2199904A
US2199904A US205363A US20536338A US2199904A US 2199904 A US2199904 A US 2199904A US 205363 A US205363 A US 205363A US 20536338 A US20536338 A US 20536338A US 2199904 A US2199904 A US 2199904A
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James R Alburger
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    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03CPHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C5/00Photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents
    • G03C5/26Processes using silver-salt-containing photosensitive materials or agents therefor
    • G03C5/29Development processes or agents therefor
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  • This invention relates to photographic develdeveloper which will work without producing fog.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide an improved developer for sound track film.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide an improved developer for sound track film of the variable area type.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide an improved high constant developer.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which will give a higher emulsion speed.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which will give 10w contrast for pic-L tures.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which will give a greatly increased latitude of exposure.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which will give a surface image.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which will produce a very uniform grain structure in the image.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which will prevent clumping of the silver grains.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a 30v developer, the exhaustion rate of which will be not greater than the rate of physical removal of the developing solution by the developed material whereby maintaining the developing solution at a constant volume will maintain it at a 35 constant developing power.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which will develop each exposed silver grain in its entirety without adding thereto or subtracting therefrom.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which will develop the sensitive material to and beyond its gamma infinity.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which prevents softening of the gel- 45 atine by alkali.
  • Another object of my invention is to provide a developer which permits development at extremely high temperatures.
  • Another object of my invention is to harden emulsion material in an alkaline developer.
  • the objects are accomplished according to my invention by adding a metallic compound, such, for example, as potassium alum, to the developing solution, and using an alkali in sufficient quantity to dissolve or redissolve the precipitate which tends to be, or is, first formed.
  • a metallic compound such as potassium alum
  • My invention in its broad aspect, is applicable to developers containing practically any of the usual developing agents which function in alkaline solution, and also is adapted to the use of any of the usual alkalies, although some developing agents and some alkalies are preferable to others.
  • alum in developer
  • the aluminum may be introduced in the readily available form of potassium aluminum sulphate, known generally as alum, or any other convenient water soluble aluminum salt may be used, such, for example, as aluminum sulphate, aluminum chloride, or aluminum bromide.
  • aluminum is the metal which I have found to be usually most desirable for my purpose, I find that appropriate salts of either zinc, tin, chromium or lead i may also be used.
  • the aluminum compounds produce suflicient tanning action on the gelatine, or prevent the softening action of the alkali to such an extent
  • the developing agent may be, so far as I have been able to ascertain, any usual or customary photographic developing agent.
  • the following developing agents have been satisfactory used with each of the aforementioned metals:
  • Certain of the developing agents require different treatment to getthem into solution in the most suitable manner. For example, metol must be dissolved in water before sulphite is added. Hydroquinone must be protected by the presence of sulphite before sodium hydroxide is added, that is, for the best results. Duratol will not .dissolve without the presence of sodium hydroxide. These examples merely indicate that there is a variation in the properties of the various developing agents. Ingeneral, it is possible to dissolve the developing agent simultaneously with sodium hydroxide. Sodium sulphite is added to the solution, as is potassium bromide or a suit-.
  • the alum and alkali may, if desired, be dissolved separately and then mixed, or the alum may be dissolved first and the'alkali added afterward, or vice versa, according to which is most convenient.
  • sodium hydrate is used, the quantity thereof must be approximately the same as that of the alum, whereas if the carbonate is used, the quantity thereof must be of the order of four times the quantity of the alum,
  • the developing agent may be mixed in a quantity amounting to approximately ,4 to gram molecular weight per liter.
  • the amount of developer used is determined by the desired developer speed or reaction velocity.
  • Sodium sul-- phite is added as a preservative in a quantity amounting to approximately mol. per litter or more.
  • the concentration of sulphite is not critical, and should be not less than 1 molecule of sulphite for each molecule of developer.
  • the usable concentrations range from below 10 grams per liter to above 300 grams per liter.
  • the addition of other substances to the developing solution for other or" incidental purposes is within the scope of my invention provided only that the aforesaid balance between the aluminum content and alkali content is maintained.
  • my improved developer will serve to develop approximately 250 feet of film with the same loss proximately .2 in the density of the finished film.
  • the film footage per literabove referred to is such that no replenishment of the developer is required in ordinary film developing machines.
  • the film runs through the machine at a speed of the pressure on this compressed air jet or blow back the rate of carry-over of the developer may,
  • the reaction' of the organic, reducing agent with the exposed silver bromide in the film produces a shift in ion concentration through a long chain of reactions.
  • Br- .ions are released.
  • Aluminate ions exist from the reaction of It is understood that each and every compound indicated in the above reaction will form certain ions in solution. For example, the alum in solution would produce potassium ions, aluminum ions and sulphate ions. The sodium aluminate indicated would, in solution, produce sodium ions and aluminate ions. It is evident from the above reaction, which is really amass reaction balance consisting of three reactions, that there will be present in the solution a large number of different ions.
  • free alkali is liberated by the aluminum-alkali compound or complex, thereby maintaining the alkalinity effectively constant.
  • the aluminum hydroxide or other metallic hydroxide which is freed forms a gelatinous precipitate which entraps exhausted developing material and other foreign material which may be in the developer and carries all of this suspended material out of the solution in the manner well known in water purification by the use of aluminum salts.
  • the developing solution is thereby maintained at all times free from the exhausted material which tends to form scum, spots, stains or fog on the film in the developers of the prior art.
  • This coagulation of aluminum and deleterious material may be either permitted to settle to the bottom of the developing container and removed therefrom at convenient intervals or the developer may be passed into a separate settling tank or container from which the sediment may be removed from time to time. Since the addition of fresh developer of the original composition does not tend to redissolve the aluminum as the addition of a stronger solution, such as generally used for enrichment of developer, would do, this precipitate does not tend to become'finely divided or; redissolved, and it is therefore readily removed from the zone of operations in the manner before described. This greatly decreases the cost of operation of developing-machines as compared to the present procedure wherein the developer is filtered under high pressure and through complicated filtering mechanisms in order to remove exhausted developing material.
  • a filter may be used if desired, but the filter required, due to the large size and gelatinous nature of. the material to be removed, is very much simpler than that required for removing the fine suspended particles from the usual commercial types of developer.
  • a further advantage of my improved developer is that if the aforesaid gelatinous precipitate'is not removed, but is kept in suspension in the solution by mechanical agitation, either through the passage -of the film through a relatively small quantity of" solution or otherwise, this gelatinous precipitatedoes not show the tendency to adhere to the film, which is common to the materials in suspension in a partly exhausted developer of the usual type. In other words, a considerable portion of such material is removed from a developing machine by the blow-back and any residual material which may adhere to the film is easily removed in the rinse water, leaving no spots or stains whatever on the film.
  • a photographic developer containing a developing agent, an aluminum salt, and sufiicient alkali to dissolve the aluminum compound tending to be precipitated by the alkali.
  • a photographic developer including a developing agent, .an alkaline sulphite, an alum, and sufficient alkali to maintain in solution the aluminum salts tending to be precipitated by the alkali..
  • a photographic developer including a developing agent, an alkaline sulphite, an aluminum alum, and adequate alkali to maintain in solution the aluminum compound tending to be. precipitated by the alkali.
  • a photographic developer including a developing agent and approximately equal portions of potassium alum and sodium hydrate.
  • a photographic developer including a developing agent, an alkali sulphite, and approxi mately equal portions of potassium .alum and sodium hydrate.
  • a photographic developer containing a phenolic developing agent, an aluminum salt, and sufiicient alkali to dissolve the aluminum salt tending to be precipitated by the alkali.
  • a photographic developer including a phenolic developing agent, an alkaline sulphite,
  • a photographic developer including a phenolic developing agent and approximately equal portions of potassium alum and sodium hydrate, the weight of the alum slightly exceed ing the weight of the sodium hydrate.
  • a photographic developer containing hydroquinone, an aluminum salt, and sufiicient alkali to dissolve the aluminum compound tending to be precipitated by the alkali.
  • a photographic developer including hydroquinone, and approximately equal portions of potassium alum and sodium hydrate.
  • a photographic developer including hydroquinone, an alkali sulphite,.and approximately equal portions of potassium alum and sodium hydrate.
  • a photographic developer including Glycine, an alkaline sluphite, an alum, and sufiicient alkali to maintain in solution the aluminum salts tending to be precipitated by the alkali.
  • 'A photographic developer including Glycine, an alkaline sluphite, an aluminum alum, and sufiicient alkali to maintain in solution the aluminum compound tending to be precipitated by the alkali.
  • a photographic developer including Glycine and approximately equal portions of potassium alum and sodium hydrate.
  • a photographic developer including Glycine, an alkali sulphite, and approximately equal portions of potassium alum and sodium hydrate.
  • a photographic developer including Duratol, an alkaline sulphite, an alum, and suflicient alkali to maintain in solution the aluminum salts tending to be precipitated by the alkali.
  • a photographic developer including Duratol, an alkaline sulphite, an aluminum alum, and

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FR849548D FR849548A (fr) 1938-03-17 1939-01-27 Perfectionnements aux révélateurs photographiques et aux procédés de développement photographique
BE432624D BE432624A (en:Method) 1938-03-17 1939-02-08
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US3516829A (en) * 1966-03-16 1970-06-23 Eastman Kodak Co Photographic activator solution
US5405729A (en) * 1993-02-09 1995-04-11 Agfa-Gevaert, N.V. Method for making a lithographic offset plate by the silver salt diffusion transfer process
US5445914A (en) * 1993-02-09 1995-08-29 Agfa-Gevaert, N.V. Method for making a lithographic offset plate by the silver salt diffusion transfer process
US6284426B1 (en) * 1993-02-09 2001-09-04 Agfa-Gevaert Process solution and method for making a lithographic aluminum offset plate by the silver salt diffusion transfer process
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US11249812B2 (en) 2019-07-25 2022-02-15 Sap Se Temporary compensation of outages
US11269717B2 (en) 2019-09-24 2022-03-08 Sap Se Issue-resolution automation
US11561836B2 (en) 2019-12-11 2023-01-24 Sap Se Optimizing distribution of heterogeneous software process workloads
US11354302B2 (en) 2020-06-16 2022-06-07 Sap Se Automatic creation and synchronization of graph database objects
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