US2770542A - Colour photography - Google Patents

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US2770542A
US2770542A US307567A US30756752A US2770542A US 2770542 A US2770542 A US 2770542A US 307567 A US307567 A US 307567A US 30756752 A US30756752 A US 30756752A US 2770542 A US2770542 A US 2770542A
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Gordon H Burt
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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
    • G03C7/00Multicolour photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents; Photosensitive materials for multicolour processes
    • G03C7/22Subtractive cinematographic processes; Materials therefor; Preparing or processing such materials
    • G03C7/25Dye-imbibition processes; Materials therefor; Preparing or processing such materials

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  • This invention relates to colour photography and more particularly to improvements in the production of colour records in the production of which thiourea and functionally similar amides and acid dyestuffs are used.
  • a process for producing a positive colour record in which a latent silver image is developed in a black and white o'eveloper, the resulting positive image bleached, treated with an aqueous solution of a water-soluble thioamide or selenoamide and with an at least sparingly watergsoluble dyestutf, in which the treatment with thioamide or selenoamide and dyestulf is carried out simultaneously in the presence of a substance which reduces the watersolubility of the silver salt present in the bleached image.
  • the treatment is carried out at a pH below 7.
  • the said substance is one which in aqueous solution gives rise to the same anion or anions as the silver saltor salts present in the bleached image.
  • the effects produced are clearly related to the nature of the product or products formed between the thioamide, the silver halide or halides present and the dyestuff and the influence exerted by other substances present upon the nature of those products.
  • the presence of an alkali metal or ammonium bromide in the aqueous mixture of thioamide and dyestutf will depress the solubility of silver bromide and this appears to favour the formation of a type of silver halide-thioamide-dyestuff complex in linear or substantially linear proportion to the amount of silver present in the bleached image and such complex is evidently in such form that the dyestutf can be transferred in a form which becomes substantive in contact with the mordant-carrying permanent base.
  • the present process uses a complex as a source from which to produce a mordant image which appears only on the permanent base and the conditions of formation of the substantially insoluble complex are such as to substantially eliminate undesirable side reactions.
  • the amide employed in the process may be thiourea, selenourea or a substitution product of either of these, such as allyl thiourea, or thioacetamide.
  • the preferred materials for reducing the solubility of the silver salt are the alkali metal and ammonium halides corresponding to the halide or halides present in the bleached silver image, when the bleached image contains silver bromide.
  • any acid dyestuff which will provide an image of the desired hue and form an insoluble complex under the reaction conditions may be employed.
  • the dyestuffs may, and in general will, be selected from different chemical groups, for example, azo, pyrazalone and anthraquinone dyestuffs and will have one or more groups which impart appreciable water-solubility, e. g. carboxyl or sulphonic groups.
  • suitable dyes for use in three-colour work are Kiton Red 613 (Schultz No. 110), Acid Fuchsin (Schultz No. 800), Lissamine Red 6B (Schultz No. 110), Kiton Yellow S (Schultz No. 732), Tartrazine (Schultz No. 737) and Alizarin Sapphire Blue CB (Schultz No. 1187).
  • Kiton Red 613 Schotz No. 110
  • Acid Fuchsin Schotz No. 800
  • Lissamine Red 6B Schotz No. 110
  • the bleached silver image is produced by treating a silver image which has been developed with a black and white developer with a bath containing hydrochloric acid and an oxidising agent, preferably potassium permanganate and then converting the thus formed silver chloride to silver bromide in a second bath which preferably contains sodium bisulphite or potassium metabisulphite and an alkali metal bromide, preferably potassium bromide.
  • a bath containing hydrochloric acid and an oxidising agent preferably potassium permanganate
  • a second bath which preferably contains sodium bisulphite or potassium metabisulphite and an alkali metal bromide, preferably potassium bromide.
  • the full procedure for the production of a colour record may be as follows. An image is printed and developed in the conventional manner in a black and white developer. It is then bleached in the first bleach bath for 3-5 minutes, washed thoroughly and then treated inthe second bath for 5 minutes, and again washed thoroughly. Until ready for complex formation the sheet is maintained in a solution of 5 ccs of 0.1% acetic acid made up to 1 litre. To form a blue image complex the bleached sheet is immersed in the following bath:
  • the treated image-bearing sheet is then washed in changes of still water or in gentle flowing water until the non-image bearing portions are quite clear of any colour.
  • the sheet bearing the image complex is then ready for the transfer bath in which it is treated with a solution containing 2.5 gms. of thiourea and 0.5 cc. 99% glacial acetic acid per litre.
  • the sheet is left in this bath for about 10 minutes and is then ready for transfer to a mordanted base material, for example, a gelatine-coated paper which has been mordanted with aluminium hydroxide.
  • a mordanted base material for example, a gelatine-coated paper which has been mordanted with aluminium hydroxide.
  • the sheet and the mordanted paper are brought into face-to-face contact and maintained in contact for 5 to 15 minutes at about F. or until transfer is substantially complete.
  • any substance which may conveniently be used in a photographic bath for the maintenance of a pH below 7 may be present in the complex-forming bath when, for example, dyestuffs having carboxylic and/or sulphonic acid groups in the molecule are used, but it is preferred to use materials by means of which a pH between 4 and 6.5 can be readily maintained, such as an alkali metal dihydrogen phosphate or an alkali metal buffer or boric acid.
  • a photographic process for producing a positive colour image comprising forming a substantially insoluble silver bromide-amide-acid dyestuff complex by treating silver bromide containing bleached silver image with an aqueous bath containing a substance selected from the group consisting of water-soluble thioamides and selenoamides and with an aqueous bath containing an acid dyestuif and thereafter transferring the dyestuff component of said complex to a permanent base, the improvement in the step of forming said complex which comprises treating said bleached image with an aqueous bath containing (a) a low concentration of said amide (b) an acid dyestuff and (c) a water-soluble bromide salt, whereby said complex is formed in amounts in substantial linear proportionality to the silver present in said bleached image.
  • a photographic process for producing a positive colour image comprising forming a substantially insoluble silver bromide-thioamide-acid dyestuif complex by treating a silver bromide containing bleached silver image with an aqueous bath containing a substance selected from the group consisting of water-soluble thioamides and selenoamides and with an aqueous bath containing an acid dyestuif and thereafter transferring the dyestuif component of said complex to a permanent base, the improvement in the step of forming said complex which comprises treating said bleached silver image with an aqueous bath containing (a) a low concentration of said amide (b) an acid dyestuff and (c) a water-soluble bromide salt whereby said complex is formed in amounts in substantial linear proportionality to the silver present in said bleached image.
  • a photographic process for producing a positive colour image comprising forming a substantially insoluble silver bromide-thioamide-acid dyestuff complex by treating a silver bromide containing bleached silver image with an aqueous bath containing a substance selected from the group consisting of water-soluble thioamides and selenoamides and with an aqueous bath containing an acid dyestuff and thereafter transferring the dyestuff component of said complex to a permanent base
  • the improvement in the step of forming said complex which comprises treating said bleached silver image with an aqueous bath having a pH less than 7 and containing 6 (a) a low concentration of said amide (b) an acid dyestuff and (c) a water-soluble bromide salt whereby said complex is formed in amounts in substantial linear proportionality to the silver present in said bleached image.

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