US3005713A - Method of improving photographic silver halide emulsions - Google Patents

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US3005713A
US3005713A US48854A US4885460A US3005713A US 3005713 A US3005713 A US 3005713A US 48854 A US48854 A US 48854A US 4885460 A US4885460 A US 4885460A US 3005713 A US3005713 A US 3005713A
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Dersch Fritz
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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
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    • G03C1/005Silver halide emulsions; Preparation thereof; Physical treatment thereof; Incorporation of additives therein
    • G03C1/04Silver halide emulsions; Preparation thereof; Physical treatment thereof; Incorporation of additives therein with macromolecular additives; with layer-forming substances
    • G03C1/047Proteins, e.g. gelatine derivatives; Hydrolysis or extraction products of proteins

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  • This invention relates to photographic silver halide emulsions and particularly to the incorporation of a reaction product of gelatin with N-acetylhomocysteine thiolactone (AHTL) in such emulsion for the purpose of increasing speed or contrast, or both, of such emulsion, while reducing the fog and preventing loss of speed.
  • AHTL N-acetylhomocysteine thiolactone
  • Photographic silver halide emulsions are usually prepared by mixing soluble silver salts, e.g., silver nitrate with soluble silver halides, e.g., potassium bromide, potassium iodide or sodium chloride in the presence of colloids such as gelatin, carboxyethyl cellulose, water soluble casein, polyvinyl alcohol or others.
  • soluble silver salts e.g., silver nitrate
  • soluble silver halides e.g., potassium bromide, potassium iodide or sodium chloride
  • colloids such as gelatin, carboxyethyl cellulose, water soluble casein, polyvinyl alcohol or others.
  • ripeners or sensitizers exert a ripening or sensitizing efiect, that is, a speed or contrast increasing effect on the silver halide emulsion.
  • Gelatin being a natural product and derived from various sources such as hides, bones, tendons, sinews and from difierent animals such as calf, cow, steer, pig, whale and being manufactured by different processes, may containmore or less or none of these substances.
  • the nature or chemical structure of these substances is not in all cases completely known, although some authors have postulated that they are sulfur containing compounds.
  • the method used for incorporating the aforesaid derivatives of gelatin consists of dissolving the derivative in water and adding this solution to the emulsion at a stage where its efiectiveness is most beneficial. Normally this is at the point where gelatin is added to -a photographic emulsion.
  • An alternative method is to incorporate the derivative in the gelatin or gel substitute employed in preparing the photographic emulsion.
  • N acetylhomocysteine thiolactone (AHTL) derivative of a gelatin is carried out ac- Patented Oct. 24., 1261 2 cording to the method described by R. Benesch and R. E. Benesch in the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. Proceeding $44 848-53 (September 1958).
  • the reaction proceeds according .to the following The reaction is carried out by treating an aqueous solution containing the gelatin-( 3-5 aud AHTL (of. Table I below) with alternate increments of AgNO and NaOH to keep the pH at 7.5 until a total of 1 mol of silver per mol of AHTL has been added.
  • the reaction is complete when all the AG-AHTL complex has dissolved. This takes about one hour.
  • the clear yellow solution of the silver mercaptide of the thiolated protein is adjusted to pH 2.5 and enough thiourea is added to convert all of the silver into the soluble Ag(thiourea) complex.
  • This complex ion is removed with any commercial cation exchange resin and the protein is washed off the resin with acidified l M thiourea solution.
  • the effiuent protein solution is then brought to pH 7 and passed through an anion exchange resin (cf. U.S. Patent 2,591,573) in order to remove some N-acetylhomocysteine which is formed as a byproduct due to hydrolysis of AHTL.
  • the protein solution is finally freed of thiourea and salts by dialysis under nitrogen and lyophilized by removing water by evaporation at extremely low temperature and high vacuum.
  • this water soluble disulfide can also be used within the scope of my invention. It has thedesirable faculty of reducing the fog tendencies during prolonged ripening.
  • the quantity of the thiolated gelatin or the water soluble disulfide derived therefrom by oxidation is relatively small compared to the quantity of the emulsion or the gelatin or gel substitute employed. Usually amounts of from about .05 to .5 gram of the additive is employed per kilo of emulsion or gelatin or gel substitute.
  • Any photographic gelatin may be utilized for my purposes. It is found that by the involved reactions such gelatins are converted to products having the characteristics contemplated herein.
  • the thiolated gelatin and the water soluble disulfide have another very desirable and entirely unexpected property, namely, they prevent speed recession in storage and during the time prior to coating when the emulsion is melted andheld in a liquid state; i
  • the oven test consists of a six-day incubation of the photographic test material at 53% relative humidity at sion at this stage was adjusted to 6.8.. During the mixing 7 and digestion, the temperature was held at 71 C. The emulsion was then cubed, washed and submitted to a second ripening process for which purpose the emulsion was melted in 2.0,minutes and heated to 49 C. ;The digestion was carried out for two hours. At the beginning of the digestion, 6 cc. of a 1% aqueous solution of Grams Metol 1.5 Sodium sulfite, anhydrous Sodium bisulfit 1 Hydroquinone 3 Sodium carbonate, monohydrated 6 Potassium bromide .8
  • EXAMPLE II' In this example, the AHTL treated gelatin was applied as a coating final and not as an additive during the digestion, that is, it was added prior to coating while the emul- 'sion was being kept in the liquid state.
  • a gelatino-silver halide emulsion containing 2% silver iodide and 98% silver bromide was prepared in a conventional manner and brought up to its maximum light sensitivity. It was then readied for coating and finals were added such as sensitizing dyes and hardening agents. Quantities of AHTL treated gelatin, as indicated in Table II, were added to the emulsion in the form of a 1% aqueous solution. The emulsion samples contained about 0.6 mol of silver halide. The soprepared emulsion samples were coated on a suitable cellulose ester base and dried. Samples of these film coatings were then exposed in a Type IB Sensitometer and developed in a developer of the composition of that described in Example I.
  • Emulsion held at40 0-30 prior to coating 100 40 D Emulsion held at 40 C. 4 hoursprlor to coating 70 26 .40 400 mg. Emulsion held 4 hours 75 24 .37 800 mg. Emulsion held 4 hours 26 39 1.6 g Emulsion held 4 hours '90 28 41 3.0 g. Emulsion held 4 hours 24 35
  • These results show appreciably reduced speed loss during the holding of the emulsion at 40 C. in the melted state prior to coatingin the cases where the AH'PL treated gelatin was present in the emulsion.

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GB19870/61A GB928116A (en) 1960-08-11 1961-06-01 Improvements in or relating to photographic silver halide emulsions
FR865532A FR1299145A (fr) 1960-08-11 1961-06-20 Procédé pour l'amélioration des émulsions photographiques d'halogénure d'argent
DEG32913A DE1138315B (de) 1960-08-11 1961-08-10 Verfahren zur Herstellung stabiler photographischer Halogensilber-emulsionen erhoehter Empfindlichkeit

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US3171831A (en) * 1961-02-14 1965-03-02 Schwarz Biores Inc Thiolation of proteins by reaction with homocysteine thiolactone in the presence of tertiary amine
US3933421A (en) * 1971-12-09 1976-01-20 I.W.S. Nominee Company Limited Polymer treatment of fibrous and filamentary materials

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