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US2428208A
US2428208A US600645A US60064545A US2428208A US 2428208 A US2428208 A US 2428208A US 600645 A US600645 A US 600645A US 60064545 A US60064545 A US 60064545A US 2428208 A US2428208 A US 2428208A
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  • This invention relates to photography and particularly to dichromate bleacl'ii ngbaths for color p g p y. W
  • Acid potassium dichromate bleach baths have been used in photography where'it' is desired to remove a silver image 'from a photographic layer without destroying or removing residual silver halide in the layer. Such baths have alsobeen used in color photography where the photographic layer contains dye images such as color developed dye images as wellassilver and silver halide. The silver canberemovedfrom such layers without destroying either the dye images or the silver halide, by the use of acid dichromate bleach baths. A process in whichthe silveris to be removed from layers containing dye images is described in Marines, Godowsky and wilder S.
  • Patent 2,258,187 granted Optober '7, 1-941;
  • a further object is to provide a novel dic hromate bleach bath in photography.
  • the dichromate bleach baths used in photography usually consists of potassium dichromate or other alkali metal dichromate such as sodium or ammonium dichromate in an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid. Such baths may be used in either black and white or color photography to remove silver images from photographic layers without removing silver halide images in the layers.
  • the dichromate bleach baths are useful in color photography, especially multi-color photography, where it 'is desired 'to remove a silver image without destroying a dye image in the photographic layer.
  • wetting or dispersing agents may be added to d-ichromate bleach baths of these types, and that the loss of color-developed dye images normally noticed when such bleach baths are used, can be reduced or almost eliminated. This effect of the wetting agents is unusual since it would be expected that wetting or dispersing agents would render the dyes more easily removable by the bleach bath.
  • alkyl naphthalene sulfonic acids and their water-soluble salts such as iso-propyl naphthalene sodium sultonate, the sodium alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, and diisop-ropyl naphthalene sulfonate
  • alkyl aryl sulfonates such as iso-propyl naphthalene sodium sultonate, the sodium alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, and diisop-ropyl naphthalene sulfonate
  • alkyl aryl sulfonates such as iso-propyl naphthalene sodium sultonate, the sodium alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, and diisop-ropyl naphthalene sulfonate
  • alkyl aryl sulfonates such as iso-propyl naphthalene sodium su
  • 1,968,795; '1,96 ,796, and 1,968,797 consist for the most part of the sulfates of oleyl, lauryl, stearyl, cetyl and octadecyl alcohols.
  • the use of these wetting agents in the dichromate bleach bath inhibits dye bleaching without inhibiting silver bleaching.
  • the bleach bath can therefore be used to treat layers containin silver and dye images at normal treatment'times of 8-10 minutes and at a pH of 1.9 to 2.2.
  • the con.- centration of the wetting agent is limited by its solubility in an acid salt solution but the most satisfactory amount appears to be about 2 grams per liter of bleach bath.
  • the amount of wetting agent should not be above about grams per liter of bleach bath or silver bleaching may be incomplete.
  • a bleach bath for removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver, and coupled dye images comprising a sulfuric acid solution of an alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates, and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
  • a bleach bath for removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images comprising an aqueous sulfuric acid solution of potassium dichrornate and a water-soluble higher primary alkyl sulfate.
  • a bleach bath for removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images dispersed in said layer in particles of water-insoluble solvent for said dye comprising a sulfuric acid solution of an alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates, and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
  • the method of removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images which comprises treating said layer with a sulfuric acid solution of alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
  • the method of removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images dispersed in said layer in particles of water-insoluble solvent for said dye comprising treating said layer with a sulfuric acid solution of alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates and higher primary alkyl sulfates.

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. time but this also increases the loss of dye.
Patented Sept. 30, 1947 .DIGHROMATE BLEACH BATH CONTAINAING A WETTING AGENT AND' METHOD or BLEACHINGr T- HE-BEWITH Itichard Edgerton, Rochester, N. X, assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, fio cheslter, N. Y.,
a corporation of New Jersey Drawing. lication June 20, 1945,,v e No. 600,64
9 Claims.
This invention relates to photography and particularly to dichromate bleacl'ii ngbaths for color p g p y. W
Acid potassium dichromate bleach baths have been used in photography where'it' is desired to remove a silver image 'from a photographic layer without destroying or removing residual silver halide in the layer. Such baths have alsobeen used in color photography where the photographic layer contains dye images such as color developed dye images as wellassilver and silver halide. The silver canberemovedfrom such layers without destroying either the dye images or the silver halide, by the use of acid dichromate bleach baths. A process in whichthe silveris to be removed from layers containing dye images is described in Marines, Godowsky and wilder S.
Patent 2,258,187, granted Optober '7, 1-941;
Acid dichromate bleach baths are generally used at a pH of'2.-5 or lower. =It hasbeen :found that when an acid dichromate bleach bath is used at a pH of less than 2.5 for about 10minutes, tor the treatment of photographic layers containing silver and color developed dyeimages, an appreciable amount of the dye is removed from the layer. This .is especially true of the yellow dye images. If the pH of the bleach bath is increased to 2.5 .or higher, silver-bleaching is incomplete in the usual bleaching time of 10 minutes. incomplete silverbleaching can be partly remedied by bleaching tor a longer Inorganic salts such ,as sodium or ammonium sulfate when present in the bleach solution also decrease the loss of dye to a slight extent; however, if the concentration of these inorganic salts is increased beyond a certain limit, silver bleaching is again inhibited and this must be compensated by lower longer time or higher dichromate concentration, all of which result in further loss of dye.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a dichromate bleach bath which can be used in the presence of a dye image and which will not remove an appreciable amount of the dye image during normal bleaching time. A further object is to provide a novel dic hromate bleach bath in photography. Other objects will appear from the following description of my invention.
These objects are accomplished by incorporating in the dichromate bleach bath a wetting or dispersing agent.
The dichromate bleach baths used in photography usually consists of potassium dichromate or other alkali metal dichromate such as sodium or ammonium dichromate in an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid. Such baths may be used in either black and white or color photography to remove silver images from photographic layers without removing silver halide images in the layers. The dichromate bleach baths are useful in color photography, especially multi-color photography, where it 'is desired 'to remove a silver image without destroying a dye image in the photographic layer.
I have found that certain wetting or dispersing agents may be added to d-ichromate bleach baths of these types, and that the loss of color-developed dye images normally noticed when such bleach baths are used, can be reduced or almost eliminated. This effect of the wetting agents is unusual since it would be expected that wetting or dispersing agents would render the dyes more easily removable by the bleach bath. While I do not know the reasons for this action of the wetting or dispersing agents in the case of dichromate bleach baths, I have found that the loss of dye images, generally yellow d-ye images, is invariably reduced when the various types of wetting agents described herein are added to the bleach thhmong the wetting or dispersing agents which I have found suitable for addition to the bleach bath, there may be mentioned (1) alkyl naphthalene sulfonic acids and their water-soluble salts, such as iso-propyl naphthalene sodium sultonate, the sodium alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, and diisop-ropyl naphthalene sulfonate, (2) the alkyl aryl sulfonates, (3) the higher fatty alcoholsulfates. These products are formed by reacting sulfuric acid with fatty alcohols such as those produced by esterifying hi her fatty acids with lower aliphatic alcohols andreducing the mixture of esters to alcohols. These sulfates of the higher fatty alcohols are described, for example, in U. .s. Patent 1,968,793, 1,968,794;
1,968,795; '1,96 ,796, and 1,968,797. These consist for the most part of the sulfates of oleyl, lauryl, stearyl, cetyl and octadecyl alcohols.
' The use of these wetting agents in the dichromate bleach bath inhibits dye bleaching without inhibiting silver bleaching. The bleach bath can therefore be used to treat layers containin silver and dye images at normal treatment'times of 8-10 minutes and at a pH of 1.9 to 2.2. The con.- centration of the wetting agent is limited by its solubility in an acid salt solution but the most satisfactory amount appears to be about 2 grams per liter of bleach bath. The amount of wetting agent should not be above about grams per liter of bleach bath or silver bleaching may be incomplete.
The following example illustrates a bleach bath according to my invention:
Potassium dichromate grams 2.5 Sulfuric acid (concentrated) c.c 2.5 Sodium sulfate grams 100 Ammonium sulfate do 100 Alkyl aryl sulfonate do 2 Water to 1 liter (33) N- (p-benzoylacetaminobenzenesulphonyl) N-methyl-anilin (34) N-(p-benzoylacetaminobenzenesulphonyl) N-iso-amylaniline (39) N- (p-benzoylacetaminobenzenesulphonyl) N-n-amylaniline (36) N-methy1p- (benzoylacetamino) -benzenesulphon-p-nitroanilide (37) p-benzoylacetamino-N- (p-toluenesulphonyl) -Nmethyl-aniline (40) N- (p-benzoylacetaminobenzenesulphonyl) N- (Y-phenylpropyl) -aniline (41) N- (p-benzoylacetaminobenzenesulphonyl) N-benzyl-p-toluidine (42) N- (p-benzoylacetaminobenzenesulphonyl) N-(y-phenylpropyl) p-tert.-amylaniline (46) N- (p-benzoylacetaminobenzenesulphonyl) N-(y-phenylpropyl)-(o)-,; (m) or (p) -toluidine My invention is especially useful for treating photographic layers containing yellow dye images dispersed in the layer in particles of Water-insoluble but water-permeable solvent for the dye, produced as described in Mannes and Godowsky U. S. Patent 2,304,940, granted December 15, 1942, Or Jelley and Vittum 2,322,027, granted June 15, 1943. The Mannes and Glodowsky patent describes the use of cellulose esters as the waterinsoluble, water-permeable solvent for the dye.
It will be understood that the modifications included herein are illustrative only and that my invention is to be taken as limited only by the scope of the appended claims.
What I claim is:
1. A bleach bath for removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver, and coupled dye images, comprising a sulfuric acid solution of an alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates, and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
2. A bleach bath for removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images, comprising an aqueous sulfuric acid solution of potassium dichrornate and a water-soluble higher primary alkyl sulfate.
3. A bleach bath for removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images dispersed in said layer in particles of water-insoluble solvent for said dye, comprising a sulfuric acid solution of an alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates, and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
4. The method of removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images which comprises treating said layer with a sulfuric acid solution of alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
5. The method of removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images dispersed in said layer in particles of water-insoluble solvent for said dye, comprising treating said layer with a sulfuric acid solution of alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
6. The method of removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images dispersed in said layer in particles of water-insoluble but Water-permeable cellulose ester which is a solvent for said dye, comprising treating said layer with a sulfuric acid solution of alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
'7. The method of removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and coupled dye images dispersed in said layer in particles of water-insoluble but water-permeable cellulose ester which is a' solvent for said dye, comprising treating said layer with an aqueous sulfuric acid solution of potassium dichromate and a water-solublehigher primar alkyl sulfate.
8. The method of removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and yellow coupled dye image dispersed in said layer in particles of a liquid, Water-insoluble but Water-permeable solvent for said dye, comprising treating said layer with a sulfuric acid solution of alkali metal dichromate and a wetting agent selected from the group consisting of alkyl naphthalene sulfonates, alkyl aryl sulfonates and higher primary alkyl sulfates.
9. The method of removing only the silver from a photographic layer containing silver and yellow coupled dye image dispersed in said layer in particles of a liquid, water-insoluble but water-permeable solvent for said dye, comprising treating said layer with an aqueous sulfuric acid solution of potassium dichromate and a water-soluble higher primary alkyl sulfate.
' RICHARD O. EDGERTON.
REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:
UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,897,866 Seymour Feb. 14, 1933 2,000,353 Schaeffer May 7, 1935 2,059,887 Marines et al Nov. 3, 1936 2,304,940 Mannes et al Dec. 15, 1942 2,322,027 Jelley et al. June 15, 1943 2,378,265 Vittum et a1 June 12, 1945 2,316,782 Gaspar Apr. 20, 1943
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