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US3644119A
US3644119A US38495A US3644119DA US3644119A US 3644119 A US3644119 A US 3644119A US 38495 A US38495 A US 38495A US 3644119D A US3644119D A US 3644119DA US 3644119 A US3644119 A US 3644119A
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  • This invention relates to novel photographic materials, and more particularly to new and improved direct positive photo graphic silver halide emulsions and photographic elements prepared with these new emulsions.
  • Direct positive photographic silver halide emulsions fogged with the combination of a reducing agent and a compound of a metal more electropositive than silver, and containing as electron acceptor or desensitizer" 3,3-dirnethyl-6,6'- dinitrothiacarbocyanine p-toluenesulfonate are described in British Pat. No. 723,019 published Feb. 2, 1955.
  • Such emulsions provide direct positive images which have low fog in the areas of high exposure.
  • emulsions of this type have heretofore not exhibited as high a'degree of dimensional stability as would be desired for certain uses, for example in making reproductions of radiographic images.
  • the images obtained with the emulsions should be substantially free from stain, such as any stain which might be caused by residual electron acceptor being retained in the emulsion subsequent to processing.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide direct positive photographic silver halide emulsions which produce photographic images having low fog in areas of high exposure and high maximum density in areas which receive little or no exposure.
  • a further object of this invention is to provide direct positive photographic silver halide emulsions which exhibit good dimensional stability when coated on a support.
  • Still another object of this invention is to provide photographic emulsions which are substantially free from stain after processing.
  • direct positive photographic emulsions comprising light-sensitive silver halide grains fogged with the combination of a reducing agent and a compound ofa metal more electropositive than silver, said emulsion containing as electron acceptor a simple cyanine dye comprising first and second nuclei selected from the group consisting of a nitrobenzothiazole nucleus and a nitronaphthothiazole nucleus, said nuclei being joined, by the two carbon atoms thereof, to a monomethine linkage.
  • Photographic silver halide emulsions in accordance with this embodiment of the invention can be coated on supports to provide photographic elements ofexcellent dimensional stability, and can be processed to provide substantially stain-free photographic records.
  • the electron acceptors employed in this invention are compatible with synthetic polymeric latices, whereas many known electron acceptors are not compatible with synthetic polymeric latices
  • photographic elements are provided having a support coated with a direct positive emulsion of the type described herein.
  • nitrobenzothiazole means that at least one hydrogen atom of the benzene ring of the benzothiazole nucleus is replaced with a nitro group.
  • nitronaphthothiazole means that at least one hydrogen atom of the naphthylene ring of the naphthothiazole nucleus is replaced with a nitro group.
  • the preferred cyanine dyes of this invention include those having the following formula:
  • R and R each represents the same or different alkyl group, including substituted alkyl, (advantageously a lower alkyl containing from one to four carbon atoms), e.g., methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, hexyl, cyclohexyl, decyl, dodecyl, etc., and substituted alkyl groups (preferably a substituted lower alkyl containing from one to four carbon atoms), such as a hydroxyalkyl group, e.g., B-hydroxyethyl, m-hydroxybutyl, etc., an alkoxyalkyl group, e.g., B-methoxyethyl, w-butoxybutyl, etc., a carboxyalkyl group
  • the simple cyanine nitrobenzothiazole dyes wherein R and R in each instance represents a sulfoalltyl group of one to four carbon atoms are especially useful in this invention and are preferred.
  • the above defined cyanine dyes can be prepared, for example, by the general procedures described in Sprague US. Pat. No. 2,503,776, issued Apr, l 1, I950, by replacing intermediates disclosed therein with appropriate intermediates containing nitro groups.
  • Typical nitrosubstituted thiacyanine dyes useful in the practice of this invention include the following:
  • the direct positive emulsions of this invention can comprise various alkali-permeable colloids and combinations thereof as vehicles or binding agents.
  • Suitable alkali-permeable colloid materials include substances such as proteins, for example, gelatin, gelatin derivatives, cellulose derivatives, polysaccharides such as dextran, gum arabic and the like.
  • the binder comprises a synthetic polymeric latex.
  • Synthetic polymeric latices increase the dimensional stability of emulsions in which they are incorporated.
  • the concentration of alkali-permeable colloid can vary over a wide range. Typical useful concentrations are from about 20 to 500 grams of the alkali-permeable colloid per mole of silver halide. The most useful concentration is from about 50 to 200 grams alkali-permeable colloid per mole of silver halide.
  • the alkali-penneable colloid binder can consist solely of the synthetic polymeric latices referred to herein.
  • a hydrophilic colloid such as gelatin
  • the proportions of synthetic polymeric latex to'hydrophilic colloid can vary over a wide range, such as from to 90 percent, and preferably about 25 to 75 percent, by weight of the colloid being synthetic polymeric latex.
  • the synthetic polymeric latex should be employed in a concentration sufficient to impart dimensional stability to photographic elements prepared with the emulsion.
  • the emulsion comprises up to about 150 grams of gelatin and up to 125 grams synthetic polymeric latex per mole of silver halide in the emulsion to permit fast drying times of the developed emulsion.
  • the emulsion comprises about lOO to 130 grams of gelatin and about 70 to 95 grams synthetic polymeric latex per mole of silver halide.
  • the synthetic polymeric latex materials referred to herein are generally polymeric materials which are relatively insoluble in water compared to water-soluble polymers, but have sufficient water solubility to form colloidal suspensions of small polymeric micelles.
  • Typical latex polymeric materials can be made by rapid copolymerization with vigorous agitation in a liquid carrier, such as the common bonfire polymerization, of at least one monomer which would form a hydrophobic homopolymer and at least one monomer which would form a hydrophilic homopolymer. In certain preferred embodiments, from about 1 to about 30 percent, by weight, of units of monomer containing the water-solubilizing group is present in the copolymer product.
  • Copolymers prepared by this method and analogous methods provide discrete micelles of the copolymer which have low viscosities in aqueous suspensions.
  • Typical useful copolymers include interpolymers of acrylic esters and sulfoesters as disclosed in Dykstra, U.S. Pat. No. 3,4l l,9ll issued Nov. 19, 1968, interpolymers of acrylic esters and sulfobetaines as described in Dykstra and Whiteley, U.S. Pat. No. 3,4l l,9l2 issued Nov. 19, 1968, interpolymers of alkyl acrylates and acrylic acids as disclosed in Ream and Fowler, U.S. Pat. No. 3,287,289 issued Nov.
  • Polymeric latex materials can also be made by rapid polymerization with vigorous agitation of hydrophobic polymers when polymerized in the presence of high concentrations of surfactants which contain water-solubilizing groups.
  • the surfactants are apparently entrained in the micelle and the solubilizing group of the surfactant provides sufiicient compatibility with aqueous liquids to provide a dispersion very much like a soap.
  • the synthetic polymeric latex materials are generally polymerized in a manner to produce micelles of about 1.0 micron average diameter or smaller to be highly useful in photographic emulsions and preferably the discrete micelles are less than 0.3 micron in average diameter.
  • the discrete micelles are less than 0.3 micron in average diameter.
  • the latex polymers which can be used according to this invention are acrylic interpolymers, i.e., those interpolymers prepared from polymerizable acrylic monomers containing the characteristic acrylic group
  • Such polymers are conveniently prepared by the interpolymerization of an acrylic monomer with at least one dissimilar monomer which can be another acrylic monomer or some other different polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer.
  • the acrylic interpolymers employed in the practice of this invention are com patible with gelatin and have a Tg of less than 20 C. (Tg can be calculated by differential thermal analysis as disclosed in Techniques and Methods of Polymer Evaluation, Vol. 1, Marcel Dekker, lnc., N.Y., I966).
  • preferred interpolymers which can be used in this invention comprise units of an alkyl acrylate such as, for example, methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, propyl acrylate, butyl acrylates (e.g., n-butyl or T-butyl acrylates), amyl acrylates, hexyl acrylates and the like.
  • Acrylic interpolymers containing units of acrylic acid or a sulfoester acrylate are especially useful in the process.
  • Typical polymers of this type are copoly(butyl acrylate-acrylic acid), copoly(methyl acrylate-acrylic acid), copoly(ethyl acrylate-acrylic acid), copoly(butyl acrylate-sulfopropyl acrylate) and the like.
  • the copolymer comprises up to about 30 percent, by weight, of acrylic acid or the sulfoester acrylate; especially good results being obtained with latex alkyl acrylate copolymers having up to about 20 percent, by weight, of the acrylic acid or the sulfoester acrylate.
  • solubilizing groups such as the acrylic acid groups or the sulfoester groups produce a more soluble solution-type polymer with respect to water carrier solvents and therefore preferably concentrations of about 5 to about 25 percent by weight are utilized to provide the better latex polymers, depending on the molecular weight of the monomer unit.
  • concentrations of the more soluble solutiontype polymers and the latex polymers can also be used within the scope of this invention to achieve the desired emulsion characteristics.
  • the above-mentioned copolymers contain units of a third monomer.
  • the synthetic polymers comprise units of l) alltyl acrylates, (2) acrylic acid or sulfoester acrylates and (3) an acrylic monomer unit having active methylene groups in side chains such as in malonic ester groups, acetoacetic ester groups, cyanoacetic ester groups of l,3-diketone groups such as disclosed in Smith, U.S. Pat. No. 3,488,708 issued Jan. 6, 1970.
  • Polymers which are especially useful in this invention, and which are described in the Smith patent just mentioned, are interpolymers of (a) about 50 to about percent, by weight, ofa monomer l having the formula:
  • R is hydrogen or methyl and R is alkyl, desirably containing up to about 10 carbon atoms, as exemplified by methyl, propyl, isobutyl, octyl, decyl and the like; (B) about 3 to about 20 percent, by weight, of a sulfoester monomer (2) having the formula:
  • R is hydrogen or alkyl, desirably containing up to about 12 carbon atoms, often one to eight carbon atoms, as exemplified by methyl, pentyl, octyl, dodecyl and the like.
  • R represents a divalent hydrocarbon radical or a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon radical in which a chain of carbon atoms joining the oxygen and sulfur atoms in the above formula is interrupted by an -O- and/or S atom and M is a cation such as an alkali metal, e.g., sodium or potassium, an ammonium salt or an organic amine such as triethylamine or diethanolamine and (C) about 2 to about percent, by weight, of a monomer (3) having the formula:
  • R a is hydrogen, alkyl, desirably containing up to l2 carbon atoms as exemplified by methyl, n-butyl, octyl, dodecyl and the like, or
  • R is alkylene, desirably containing up to l0. preferably one to eight carbon atoms, as exemplified by ethylene, tetramethylene, LS-isobutylene, octamethylene and the like and
  • X is aliphatic acyl containing up to about eight carbon atoms, such as alkyl carbonyl groups exemplified by acetyl, butyryl, caprylyl and the like
  • R is alkyl, desirably containing up to about 10 carbon atoms, as exemplified by methyl, butyl, octyl, decyl and the like, cycloalkyl, desirably containing up to about 10 carbon atoms, as exemplified by cyclopentyl, cyclobutyl, cyclohexyl and the like, aryl, desirably containing up to about 12 carbon atoms as exemplified by phenyl
  • R, radicals are alkylene radicals, generally those containing two to four carbons.
  • R can also be a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon radical in which there is an 0- and/or S radical and generally contains up to l2 carbon atoms.
  • Such R, radicals can, therefore, be saturated or unsaturated, although saturated divalent alkylene groups in which the carbon chain is interrupted by oxygen and sulfur atoms are preferred.
  • Suitable R radicals include, for example, ethylene,
  • Typical specific polymers copoly(ethyl acrylate-acrylic methacrylate), copoly(butyl propane sulfonate-2-acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate), copoly( methyl acrylate-sodium acryloyloxypropane sulfonate- Z-acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate copoly( butyl acry- Iate-acrylic acid-Z-cyanoacetoxyethyl methacrylate) and the like and mixtures thereof.
  • the copolymers of (1) alkyl acrylates and (2) acrylic acid or the sulfoester can also contain units of 3) sulfobetaines, N-methacryloyl-N'-glycylhydrazine hydrachlorides, 2-[Z-methacryloyloxy-ethyllisothiouronium methane sulfonate and the like.
  • Typical copolymers having useful herein include acid-Z-acetoacetoxy-ethyl acrylate-sodium acryloxy sulfobetaine units include copoly-(butyl acrylate-acrylic acid- 4,4,9-trimethyl-8-oxo-7oxa-4-azonia-9-decenel sulfonate) and the like.
  • the direct positive silver halide emulsions hereof are fogged by the combination of a reducing agent such as thiourea dioxide and a compound of a metal more electropositive than silver, such as a gold salt, for example, potassium chloroaurate, as described in British Pat. No. 723,019 1955
  • a reducing agent such as thiourea dioxide
  • a gold salt for example, potassium chloroaurate
  • Typical reducing agents that are useful in providing such emulsions include stannous salts, e.g., stannous chloride, hydrazine, sulfur compounds such as thiourea dioxide, phosphonium salts such as tetra( hydroxymethyl) phosphonium chloride, and the like.
  • Typical useful metal compounds that are more electropositive than silver include gold, rhodium, platinum, palladium iridium, etc., preferably in the form of soluble salts thereof, e.g., potassium chloroaurate, auric chloride, (NI-L ),PdCl and the like.
  • reducing agent and metal compound e.g., metal salt
  • concentrations of reducing agent and metal compound can be varied over a considerable range.
  • good results are obtained using about 0.05 to 40 mg. reducing agent per mole of silver halide, and 0.5 to I50 mg. metal compound per mole of silver halide. Best results are obtained at lower concentration levels of both reducing agent and metal compound.
  • the concentration of added dye can vary widely, e.g.. from about 50 to 2,000 mg. and preferably from about 400 to 800 mg. per mole of silver halide.
  • logged refers to emulsions containing silver halide grains which produce a density of at least 0.5 when developed, without exposure, for 5 minutes at 68 F. in developer Kodak DK-SO having the composition set forth below, when the emulsion is coated at a silver coverage of 50 mg. to 500 mg. per square foot.
  • the dyes of this invention are highly useful electron acceptors in high speed direct positive emulsions comprising fogged silver halide grains and a compound which accepts electrons, as described and claimed in lllingsworth US. Pat. No. 3,501,307 issued Mar. 17, I970.
  • the fogged silver halide grains of such emulsions are such that a test portion thereof, when coated as a photographic silver halide emulsion on a support to give a maximum density of at least about one upon processing for 6 minutes at about 68 F. in Kodak DK-SO developer, has a maximum density which is at least about 30 percent greater than the maximum density of an identical coated test portion which is processed for 6 minutes at about 68 F. in Kodak DK-SO developer after being bleached for about l0 minutes at about 68 F. in a bleach composition of:
  • the grains of such emulsions will lose at least about 25 per cent and generally at least about 40 percent of their fog when bleached for 10 minutes at 68 F. in a potassium cyanide bleach composition as described herein.
  • This fog loss can be illustrated by coating the silver halide grains as a photographic silver halide emulsion on a support to give a maximum density of at least 1.0 upon processing for 6 minutes at about 68 F. in Kodak DK-SO developer and comparing the density of such a coating with an identical coating which is processed for 6 minutes at 68 F. in Kodak DK-SO developer after being bleached for about [0 minutes at 68 F. in the potassium cyanide bleach composition.
  • the maximum density of the unbleached coating will be at least 30 percent greater, generally at least 60 percent greater, than the maximum density of the bleached coating.
  • the silver halides employed in the preparation of the photographic emulsions useful herein include any of the photographic silver halides as exemplified by silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chloride, silver chlorobromide, silver bromoiodide, silver chlorobromide, and the like.
  • the silver halide grains can be regular and can be any suitable shape such as cubic or octahedral, as described and claimed in lllingsworth, U.S. Pat. No. 3,501,306 issued Mar. 17, 1970.
  • Such grains advantageously have a rather uniform diameter frequency distribution, as described and claimed in lllingsworth U.S. Pat. No. 3,501,305 issued Mar. 17, 1970.
  • at least 95 percent, by weight, of the photographic silver halide grains can have a diameter which is within about 40 percent, preferably within about 30 percent of the mean grain diameter.
  • Mean grain diameter i.e., average train size, can be determined using conventional methods, e.g., as shown in an article by Trivelli and Smith entitled Empirical Relations Between Sensitometric and Size-Frequency Characteristics in Photographic Emulsion Series" in The Photographic Journal, Vol. LXXIX, 1949, pages 330-338.
  • the fogged silver halide grains in these direct positive photographic emulsions of this invention produce a density of at least 0.5 when developed without exposure for 5 minutes at 68 F. in Kodak DK-SO developer when such an emulsion is coated at a coverage of 50 to about 500 mg. of silver per square foot of support.
  • the preferred photographic silver halide emulsions comprise at least 50 mole percent bromide, the most preferred emulsions being silver bromoiodide emulsions, particularly those containing less than about mole percent iodide.
  • the photographic silver halides can be coated at silver coverages in the range of about 50 to about 500 milligrams of silver per square foot of support.
  • the dyes and other mentioned addenda of the invention are advantageously incorporated in the washed, finished silver halide emulsion and should, of course, be uniformly distributed throughout the emulsion.
  • the methods of incorporating dye and other addenda in emulsions are relatively simple and well known to those skilled in the art of emulsion making. For example, it is convenient to add them from solutions for latexes in appropriate solvents, in which case the solvent selected should be completely free from any deleterious effect on the ultimate light-sensitive materials. Methanol, isopropanol, pyridine, water, etc., alone or in admixture, have proven satisfactory as solvents for this purpose.
  • the type of silver halide emulsions that can be sensitized with the new dyes include any of those prepared with hydrophilic colloids that are known to be satisfactory for dispersing silver halides, for example, emulsions comprising natural materials such as gelatin, albumin, agar-agar, gum arabic, alginic acid, etc., and hydrophilic synthetic resins such as polyvinyl alcohol polyvinylpyrrolidone, cellulose ethers, partially hydrolyzed cellulose acetate, and the like.
  • the silver halide emulsions spectrally sensitized with the dyes of this invention can be unwashed or washed to remove soluble salts.
  • the soluble salts can be removed by chill-setting and leaching or the emulsion can be coagulation washed, e.g., by the procedures described in Hewitson et al., U.S. Pat. No. 2,618,556; Yutzy et al., U.S. Pat. No. 2,614,928; Yacltel U.S. Pat. No. 2,565,418; Hart et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,241,969; and Waller et al., U.S. Pat. No. 2,489,341.
  • the dyes employed in this invention can be used alone or in combination with other dyes, such as symmetrical or unsymmetrical dyes having a nitrosubstituted selenazole nucleus, e.g., 3 ,3'-dimethyl-6,6-dinitroselenathiacyanine p-toluenesulfonate, 3,3'-dlmethyl-6,6'-dlnitroselenacarbocyanine ptoluenesulfonate, 1,3-diallyl-3'-methyl-6'-nitroimidazo[4,5-
  • symmetrical or unsymmetrical dyes having a nitrosubstituted selenazole nucleus e.g., 3 ,3'-dimethyl-6,6-dinitroselenathiacyanine p-toluenesulfonate, 3,3'-dlmethyl-6,6'-dlnitroselenacarbocyanine ptoluenesul
  • Silver halide emulsions of this invention can be protected against the production of fog and can be stablilized against loss of sensitivity during keeping.
  • Suitable antifoggants and stabilizers which can be used alone or in combination, include the thiazolium salts described in Staud U.S. Pat. No. 2,131,038 and Allen U.S. Pat. No. 2,694,716; the azaindenes described in Piper U.S. Pat. No. 2,886,437 and Heimbach U.S. Pat. No. 2,444,605; the mercury salts described in Allen U.S. Pat. No. 2,728,663; the urazoles described in Anderson U.S. Pat. No.
  • Photographic elements including emulsions spectrally sen sitized in accordance with this invention can contain incor porated developing agents such as hydroquinones, catechols, aminophenols, 3-pyrazolidones, ascorbic acid and its derivatives, reductones and phenylenediamines, or combinations of developing agents.
  • the developing agents can be in a silver halide emulsion and/or in another suitable location in the photographic element.
  • the developing agent can be added from suitable solvents or in the form of dispersions as described in Yackel US. Pat. No. 2,592,368 and Dunn et al., French Pat. No. 1,505,778.
  • Silver halide spectrally sensitized in accordance with the invention can be dispersed in colloids that can be hardened by various organic or inorganic hardeners, alone or in combination, such as the aldehydes, and blocked aldehydes, ketones.
  • Emulsions spectrally sensitized in accordance with this invention can be used in photographic elements which contain antistatic or conducting layers, such as layers that comprise soluble salts, e.g., chlorides, nitrates, etc., evaporated metal layers, ionic polymers such as those described in Minsk U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,861,056 and 3,206,312 or insoluble inorganic salts such as those described in Trevoy U.S. Pat. No. 3,428,45 l.
  • antistatic or conducting layers such as layers that comprise soluble salts, e.g., chlorides, nitrates, etc., evaporated metal layers, ionic polymers such as those described in Minsk U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,861,056 and 3,206,312 or insoluble inorganic salts such as those described in Trevoy U.S. Pat. No. 3,428,45 l.
  • Photographic emulsions of the invention can be coated on a wide variety of supports.
  • Typical supports include cellulose nitrate film, cellulose ester film, poly(vinyl acetal) film, polystyrene film, poly(ethylene terephthalate) film, polycarbonate film and related films or resinous material, as well as glass, paper, metal and the like.
  • a flexible support is employed, especially a paper support, which can be partially acetylated or coated with baryta and/or an alpha-olefin polymer, particularly a polymer of an alpha-olefin containing two to 10 carbon atoms such as polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene-butene copolymers and the like.
  • Spectrally sensitized emulsions of the invention can contain plasticizers and lubricants such as polyalcohols, e.g., glycerin and diols of the type described in Milton U.S. Pat. No.
  • the photographic emulsions spectrally sensitized as described herein can contain surfactants such as saponin, anionic compounds such as the alkyl aryl sulfonates described in Baldsiefen U.S. Pat. No. 2,600,831 and amphoteric compounds such as those described in Ben-Ezra U.S. Pat. No. 3,133,816.
  • surfactants such as saponin, anionic compounds such as the alkyl aryl sulfonates described in Baldsiefen U.S. Pat. No. 2,600,831 and amphoteric compounds such as those described in Ben-Ezra U.S. Pat. No. 3,133,816.
  • Photographic elements containing emulsion layers sensitized as described herein can contain matting agents such as starch, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, silica polymeric beads including beads of the type described in .lelley et al., U.S. Pat. No. 2,992,10i and Lynn U.S. Pat. No. 2,701,245.
  • matting agents such as starch, titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, silica polymeric beads including beads of the type described in .lelley et al., U.S. Pat. No. 2,992,10i and Lynn U.S. Pat. No. 2,701,245.
  • Spectrally sensitized emulsions of the invention can be utilized in photographic elements which contain brightening agents including stilbene, triazine, oxazole and coumarin brightening agents.
  • Brightening agents including stilbene, triazine, oxazole and coumarin brightening agents.
  • Water soluble brightening agents can be used such as those described in Albers et al., German Pat. No. 972,067 and McFall et al., U.S. Pat. No. 2,933,390 or disper' sions of brighteners can be used such as those described in Jansen German Pat. No. 1,150,274 and Oetiker et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,406,070.
  • Light sensitive photographic emulsion layers spectrally sensitized with the subject dye combinations can be used in photographic elements which contain light absorbing materials and filter dyes such as those described in Sawdey US. Pat. No. 3,253,921; Gaspar U.S. Pat. No. 2,274,782; Carroll et al., U.S. Pat. No. 2,527,583 and VanCampen U.S. Pat. No. 2,956,879. if desired, the dyes can be mordanted, for example, as described in Milton and Jones U.S. Pat. No. 3,282,699.
  • Photographic emulsions of this invention can be coated by various coating procedures including dip coating, air knife coating, curtain coating, or extrusion coating using hoppers oi' the type described in Beguin U.S. Pat. No. 2,681,294. If desired, two or more layers may be coated simultaneously by the procedures described in Russell U.S. Pat. No. 2,761,791 and Wynn British Pat. No. 837,095.
  • Direct positive emulsions spectrally sensitized as described herein are useful in color image transfer processes such as described in Whitmore et al., U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,227,550; 3,227,551 and 3,227,552.
  • Exposed photographic emulsions of this invention can be processed by various methods including processing in alkaline solutions containing conventional developing agents such as hydroquinones, catechols, aminophenols, 3-pyrazolidones, phenylenediamines, ascorbic acid derivatives, hydroxylamines, hydrazines and the like; web processing such as described in Tregillus et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,179,5 l7; stabilization processing as described in Yackel et al., Stabilization Processing of Films and Papers, PSA Journal, Vol. 168, Aug., 1950', monobath processing as described in Levy Combined Development and Fixation of Photographic images with Monobaths," Phat. Sci. and Eng., Vol.
  • conventional developing agents such as hydroquinones, catechols, aminophenols, 3-pyrazolidones, phenylenediamines, ascorbic acid derivatives, hydroxylamines, hydrazines and the like
  • web processing such as described in
  • the photographic emulsions of this invention can be processed in hardening developers such as those described in Allen et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,232,761; in roller transport processors such as those described in Russell U.S. Pat. No. 3,025,779; or by surface application processing as described in Example 3 of Kitze U.S. Pat. No. 3,418,132.
  • the silver halide emulsions spectrally sensitized in accordance with this invention can be used for making lithographic printing plates such as by the colloid transfer of undeveloped and unhardened areas of an exposed and developed emulsion to a suitable support as described in Clark et al., US. Pat. No. 2,763,553; to provide a relief image as described in Woodward U.S. Pat. No. 3,402,045 of Spencer U.S. Pat. No. 3,053,658; or, to prepare a relief printing plate as described in Baxter et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,271,150.
  • the dyes, polymeric latices, reducing agents and metal compounds of the invention can be used with emulsions prepared with any of the light-sensitive silver halide salts including silver chloride, silver bromide, silver chlorobromide, silver bromoiodide, silver chlorobromoiodide, etc. Particularly useful for direct positive fogged emulsions in which the silver salt is a silver bromohalide comprising more than 50 mole percent bromide.
  • novel emulsions of this invention may be coated on any suitable photographic support, such as glass, film base such as cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate butyrate, polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate, paper, baryta coated paper, polyolefin coated paper, e.g., polyethylene or polypropylene coated paper, which may be electron bombarded to promote emulsion adhesion to produce the novel photographic elements of invention.
  • film base such as cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate butyrate
  • polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate, paper, baryta coated paper, polyolefin coated paper, e.g., polyethylene or polypropylene coated paper, which may be electron bombarded to promote emulsion adhesion to produce the novel photographic elements of invention.
  • a gelatin silver bromoiodide emulsion (2.5 mole percent of the halide being iodide) and having an average grain size of about 0.2 micron is prepared by adding an aqueous solution of potassium bromide and potassium iodide, and an aqueous solution of silver nitrate, simultaneously to a rapidly agitated aqueous gelatin solution at a temperature of C., over a period of about 35 minutes.
  • the emulsion is chili-set, shredded and washed by leaching with cold water in the conventional manner.
  • the emulsion is reduction-gold fogged by first adding 0.2 mg. of thiourea dioxide per mole of silver and heating for 60 minutes at 65 C. and then adding 4.0 mg.
  • 'Iheqpolyrner is co 0]y methy1acrylate-2-suliopropylscrylate-2-acetoxyethyl meiliacrylate) in the proportions of npprnxb mataly 8i) 6% and 5%,
  • y weight respectively, of methylacryiate, z suliopropylaerylate and Z-acetoacr-toxyethylmttharrylutl'.
  • 3 Contra contains 611 mg./m0le silver halide or a comparison Dye I which is 3,3-dlethyl-5,5-dinitrothiaearbouyunliw chloride (see (levaert British Patent 723,015), Example 2).
  • Coatings (c) and (d), containing synthetic polymeric latex exhibit better dimensional stability than coatings consisting essentially of hydrophilic colloids such as gelatin, and which are free from synthetic polymeric latex.
  • coating (:1) is repeated, except using fill mg. per mole of a nonsulfoalkyl nitrosubstituted thiacyanine dye, i.e., 3,3- diethyl-6,6'-dinitrothiacyanine chloride, similar results are obtained except that this dye leaves a yellow stain.
  • a nonsulfoalkyl nitrosubstituted thiacyanine dye i.e., 3,3- diethyl-6,6'-dinitrothiacyanine chloride
  • a direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains fogged with the combination of a reducing agent and a compound of a metal more electropositive than silver: the improvement wherein said emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, a simple cyanine dye comprising first and second nuclei selected from the group consisting of a nitrobenzothiazole nucleus and nitronaphthothiazole nucleus, said nuclei being joined through the two carbon atoms thereof to a monomethine linkage.
  • a direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains fogged with a combination of a reducing agent and a compound of a metal selected from the group consisting of gold, rhodium, platinum, palladium and iridium: the improvement wherein said emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, a dye having the following formula:
  • emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, about 600 milligrams per mole of silver of 3,3'-diethyl-6,6'4linitrothiacyanine chloride.
  • a direct positive photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains fogged with a combination of a reducing agent and a compound of a metal more electropositive than silver, said grains being dispersed in an alkali-permeable colloid: the improvement wherein said emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, a simple cyanine dye comprising first and second nuclei selected from the group consisting of a nitmbenmthiazole nucleus and a nitronaphthothiazole nucleus, said nuclei being joined through the two carbon atoms thereof to a monomethine linkage, at least one of said nuclei having a sufoalkyl group attached to the heterocyclic nitrogen atom thereof; and, said alkali-permeable colloid comprises a synthetic polymeric latex.
  • a photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains fogged with the combination of a reducing agent and a compound of a metal selected from the group consisting of gold, rhodium, platinum, palladium and iridium, said grains being dispersed in an alkali-permeable colloid; the improvement wherein said emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, a dye having the following formula:
  • R and R each represents an alkyl group or an aryl group, at least one of R and R, representing a sulfoalkyl grou L represents a monomethine linkage;
  • Z and Z each represents the atoms necessary to complete a nitrosubstituted nucleus selected from group consisting of a nitrobenzothiazole nucleus and a nitronaphthothiazole nucleus; and, said alkali-permeable colloid comprises a synthetic polymeric latex, the polymer being an interpolymer of (a) about 50 to percent, by weight, of a monomer having the formula:
  • R represents hydrogen or methyl and R represents alkyl, (b) about 3 to 20 percent, by weight, of a sulfoester of a monomer having t he following formula:
  • R represents hydrogen or alkyl and R-, represents a divalent hydrocarbon radical or a divalent aliphatic hydrocarbon radical in which the chain of carbon atoms is interrupted by an oxygen or sulfur atom, and M is a cation, and (c) about 2 to 20 percent, by weight, of a monomer having the following formula:
  • R, and R are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl and an aliphatic acyl or cyano containing group of the formula:
  • R represents alkylene and X represents aliphatic acyl or cyano, one and only one of R, and R representing said aliphatic acyl or cyano containing group.
  • a direct positive photographic silver bromoiodide emulsion in which the halide is about 2.5 mole percent iodide, said silver halide being fogged with a combination of thiourea dioxide and potassium chloroaurate, and said grains being dispersed in an alkali-penneable colloid: the improvement wherein said emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, about 600 milligrams per mole of silver of the dye anhydro-fi,6'-
  • said binder comprises about 120 milligrams gelatin per mole of silver and about 85 milligrams per mole of silver of copoly( methylacrylate-2-sulfopropylacrylate-2-acetox yethyl methacrylate).
  • a photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon a direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion as defined in claim 1.
  • a photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon a direct positive photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains fogged with the combination of a reducing agent and a compound of a metal more electropositive than silver, said grains being dispersed in an alkali-permeable colloid: the improvement wherein said emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, a simple cyanine dye comprising first and second nuclei selected from the group consisting of a nitrobenzothiazole nucleus and a nitronaphthothiazole nucleus, said nuclei being jointed through the two carbon atoms thereof to a monomethine linkage, at least one of said nuclei having a sulfoalkyl group attached to the heterocyclic nitrogen atom thereof; and, said alkali-permeable colloid comprises a synthetic polymeric latex.
  • a photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon a direct positive photographic silver halide emulsion as defined in claim 9 wherein said synthetic polymeric latex is an interpolymer comprising units of (I) an alkyl acrylate, (2) acrylic acid or sulfoester acrylates, and (3) an acrylic monomer having active methylene groups in side chains.
  • a photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon a photographic emulsion comprising silver halide grains fogged with the combination of a reducing agent and a compound of a metal selected from the group consisting of gold, rhodium, platinum, palladium and iridium, said grains being dispersed in an alkali-permeable colloid: the improvement wherein said emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, a dye having the following formula:
  • R represents hydrogen or methyl and R represents alkyl, (b) about 3 to 20 percent, by weight, of a sulfoester of a monomer having the following formula:
  • R and R are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl and an aliphatic acyl or cyano containing ,group of the formula wherein R represents alkylene and X represents aliphatic acyl or cyano, one and only one of R, and R representing said aliphatic acyl or cyano containing group.
  • a photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon a direct positive photographic silver bromoiodide emulsion in which the halide is about 2.5 mole percent iodide, said silver halide being fogged with a combination of thiourea dioxide and potassium chloroaurate, and said grains being dispersed in an alkali-permeable colloid: the improvement wherein said emulsion contains, as electron acceptor, about 600 milligrams per mole of silver of the dye anhydro-6,6-dinitro-3,3'-di( 3-sulfopropyl) thiacyanine hydrox ide, sodium salt; and, said binder comprises about I20 milligrams gelatin per mole of silver and about milligrams per mole of silver of copoly(methylacrylate-Z-sulfopropylacrylate-2acetoxyethyl methacrylate

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