US3655407A - Method of coating dilute aqueous emulsions - Google Patents

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US3655407A
US3655407A US805788A US3655407DA US3655407A US 3655407 A US3655407 A US 3655407A US 805788 A US805788 A US 805788A US 3655407D A US3655407D A US 3655407DA US 3655407 A US3655407 A US 3655407A
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  • aqueous composition of a hydrophilic colloid wherein said colloid comprises from about .1 to about 6 per cent by weight of said solution, is given increased viscosity by the low-level addition of a copolymer comprising: (1) at least 50 mole per cent of units of an acrylic acid and (2) up to 50 mole per cent of units of an alkyl acrylate.
  • the copolymer is added at a concentration in the range of about 0.01 to about 1 per cent by weight of the aqueous composition.
  • Aqueous compositions of hydrophilic colloids such as, for example, silver halide photographic emulsions, are thickened as described and can be coated on a wide variety of supports in singleor multi-layer photographic elements.
  • Silver halide photographic emulsions improved as described can be incorporated as integral layers in photographic elements. They can be chemically sensitized, e.g., with noble metal sensitizers alone or in combination with sulfur or selenium sensitizers. They can also contain spectral sensitizers, incorporated color-forming couplers, incorporated developing agents, antifoggants, plasticizers, coating aids and other suitable photographic addenda, such as described in US Pat. No. 3,297,446 (columns 4-9).
  • This invention relates to the use of viscosity-increasing materials or thickening agents in dilute aqueous compositions of hydrophilic colloids.
  • this invention relates to the incorporation of acrylic acid-alkyl acrylate copolymers as thickening agents in dilute gelatin photographic emulsions to improve the coatability thereof.
  • photographic emulsions contain gelatin. It is also known that low gelatin concentrations permit coating of thin layers.
  • Various thickening agents which facilitate the coating of dilute photographic emulsions include: carboxy-methylated carbohydrates, cellulose derivatives, carrageenans and alginic acid. Many of these materials exhibit problems producing haze, coagulation, brittleness, etc.
  • Various acrylic acid polymers have also been used as a gelatin replacement.
  • improved silver halide emulsions having low gelatin content and increased viscosity are desired in order to coat improved thin layers in photographic elements without substantially affecting the other physical and photographic properties of the element.
  • a dilute aqueous composition of a hydrophilic colloid of low concentrations of an acrylic acid-alkyl acrylate copolymer in which the acid units comprise at least 50 mole per cent significantly increases the viscosity of said composition.
  • improved coatability of a dilute silver halide emulsion is achieved by the addition to said emulsion of an acrylic acid-methyl acrylate copolymer consisting of 90 mole per cent acid units and mole per cent acrylate umts.
  • Another embodiment of this invention comprises a dilute aqueous composition of a hydrophilic colloid thickened by the addition at low concentrations of an acrylic acid-alkyl acrylate copolymer comprising at least 50 mole per cent acid units and up to 50 mole per cent acrylate units.
  • acrylic acid units include substituted acrylic acid units such as methacrylic acid and that the alkyl acrylate units include substituted alkyl acrylates such as alkyl methacrylates and the like.
  • Another embodiment is a silver halide photographic emulsion containing less than 6 per cent gelatin by weight, thickened by the addition of a copolymer comprising 90 mole per cent acrylic acid units and 10 mole per cent methyl acrylate units.
  • Still another embodiment is an improved method for bead coating thin layers in a photographic element.
  • the practice of the invention as herein disclosed is a useful method of improving coating quality and versatility.
  • the use of the acrylic acid-alkyl acrylate copolymers of the invention permits bead coating of more concentrated integral layers in photographic elements by the elimination of some of the gelatin vehicle without decreasing viscosity.
  • the practice of the invention results in photographic elements of increased sharpness and faster processing characteristics without loss of coating uniformity.
  • the compositions of the invention permit the combination of more layers into single multiple-hopper packs. They also facilitate the replacement of gelatin by other hydrophilic colloids, such as, for example, synthetic polymers where desired for faster drying, flexibility, improved covering power and dimensional stability, said polymers normally contributing too low a viscosity when used alone to allow good coating quality. They do not require the use of special hardeners to improve emulsion characteristics since conventional hydrophilic colloid hardeners such as gelatin hardeners can be used to harden the emulsions.
  • the colloidal materials whose properties are improved by mixing with an acrylic acid-alkyl acrylate copolymer are those whose aqueous dispersions are recognized as useful as vehicles in integral layer photographic elements. Included are gelatins, glues, pigmented gelatins, gelatin derivatives and other colloidal materials such as, for example, poly(acrylamide), poly(vinyl alcohol), poly(vinyl pyrrolidone), and the like. In one embodiment, the preferred hydrophilic colloid is gelatin.
  • the alkyl acrylate-acrylic acid copolymers generally useful in this invention comprise at least 50 mole per cent of units of an acrylic acid and up to about 50 mole per cent of units of an alkyl acrylate.
  • the copolymer consists essentially of units of the monomers above in the specified ratios.
  • the copolymer comprises from about to about mole per cent of units of an acrylic acid.
  • Suitable alkyl acrylate units include any of those in which the alkyl radical contains from about one to about 10 carbon atoms, e.g., methyl, ethyl, propyl, hexyl, decyl, etc.
  • suitable alkyl acrylate units include methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, ethyl acrylate, ethyl methacrylate, propyl acrylate, and the like, though methyl acrylate is preferred.
  • copolymer additions in the range of about 0.01 to about 1, preferably about 0.1 to about 0.5, per cent by weight of said aqueous coating composition are sufficient.
  • the coating compositions contain from 1 to 5 per cent of said copolymer based on the weight of the hydrophilic colloid.
  • the practice of this invention is most effective in aqueous compositions wherein the concentrations of the hydrophilic colloids are in the range of about 0.1 to about 6, preferably about 0.1 to about 4, per cent by weight.
  • Dilute aqueous compositions thickened as described can be coated on a wide variety of supports in singleor multi-layer photographic elements, for example, as disclosed in Russell, US. Pat. No. 2,761,791, issued Sept. 4, 1966.
  • the compositions of this invention can also be coated by dip-coating methods or methods where high viscosity is quite advantageous such as in extrusion coating, curtain coating and doctor knife coating.
  • suitable supports include cellulose nitrate film, cellulose ester film, polyvinyl acetal film, polystyrene film, poly(ethylene terephthalate) film and related films or resinous materials as well as glass, paper, metal and the like.
  • Supports such as paper which are coated with a-olefin polymers, particularly polymers of a-olefins containing two or more carbon atoms, e.g., polyethylene, polypropylene and ethylene butene copolymers, can also be employed.
  • a-olefin polymers particularly polymers of a-olefins containing two or more carbon atoms, e.g., polyethylene, polypropylene and ethylene butene copolymers, can also be employed.
  • Photographic elements can be produced comprising a support and integral layers in which at least one layer comprises a silver halide emulsion, for example, the improved viscosity compositions can be used to coat interlayers, silver halide emulsion layers, dye mordant layers, receiving layers and the like.
  • the compositions of the invention improved as described can be coated in thin, uniform layers thereby permitting a combination of more of said layers into a thin photographic element.
  • Silver halide photographic emulsions and elements of the invention can be used in various kinds of photographic systems, e.g., monochromatic, orthochromatic, panchromatic, infrared, X-ray and other non-optically sensitized systems.
  • Silver halide photographic emulsions and elements improved as described can be used in color photography, e.g., emulsions containing color-forming couplers or emulsions to be developed by solutions incorporating couplers or other colorgenerating maierials.
  • the integral layers of a photographic element can be chemically sensitized, e.g., with noble metal sensitizers alone or in combination with sulfur or selenium sensitizers. They can contain spectral sensitizers such as, for example, the cyanines, merocyanines, complex (trinuclear) cyanines, complex merocyanines, styryls and hemicyanines. Sensitizing dyes useful in such integral layers aredescribed, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,526,632 and 2,503,776.
  • the integral layers of a photographic element can also contain development modifiers such as .polymeric thioethers, onium" salts, polyalkylene glycols, etc. They can contain antifoggants and stabilizers, examples of which include seleninic acids, tetraazaindenes,'oxypentamidines, etc. i
  • EXAMPLE 1 A commonly obtained copolymer comprising 90 mole per cent acrylic acid units and mole per cent methyl acrylate units, herein abbreviated as copolymer (90:10), contains about 10 per cent solids at pH 3.0. This very viscous solution (50,000-l,000,000 cps) is impractical for handling and coating. A working solution is prepared by diluting the copolymer to a 2 per cent solids solution without adjusting the pH. The
  • Acrylic acid-methyl acrylate (90:10) in the cyan and magenta layers of a photographic element, as above, increases the viscosity and decreases silver halide grain sedimentation. Gelatin increases these layers to accomplish the same purpose are unacceptable since they greatly decrease the maximum density of the final color transfer print.
  • Acrylic acid-methyl acrylate copolymer (90:10) has no adverse effect on the sensitometric properties of the emulsion layers of either fresh or incubated (120 F. for one week) coatings.
  • a composition of matter comprising an aqueous composition of (A) a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising hydrophilic colloid wherein said colloid comprises from about 0.1 to about 6 percent by weight of said composition and (B) a copolymer comprising: (1) from at least 50 to 95 mole percent of units of an acrylic acid and (2) from 5 up to about 50 mole percent of alkyl acrylate, wherein said copolymer comprises from about 0.1 to ab0ut 5 percent by weight of said colloid.
  • a photographic element comprising a support and integral layers, at least one layer comprising a silver halide emul-.
  • said integral layers contain the composition of matter comprising an aqueous composition of (A) a hydrophilic colloid wherein said colloid comprises from about 0.1 to about 6 percent by weight of said solution and (B) a copolymer comprising: (1) from at least about 50 to 95 mole percent of units of an acrylic acid and (2) from 5 up to about 50 mole percent of units of an alkyl acrylate, wherein said copolymer comprises from about 0.1 to about 5 percent by weight of said colloid.
  • A a hydrophilic colloid wherein said colloid comprises from about 0.1 to about 6 percent by weight of said solution
  • B a copolymer comprising: (1) from at least about 50 to 95 mole percent of units of an acrylic acid and (2) from 5 up to about 50 mole percent of units of an alkyl acrylate, wherein said copolymer comprises from about 0.1 to about 5 percent by weight of said colloid.
  • a method for increasing the viscosity of an aqueous composition of a silver halide photographic emulsion containing a hydrophilic colloid in an amount from about 0.1 to about 6.0 percent by weight of said composition the improvement which comprises incorporating therein a copolymer comprising 1) from at least 50 to 95 mole percent of units of an acrylic acid and (2) from 5 up to about 50 mole percent of units of alkyl acrylate, wherein said copolymer comprises from about 0.1 to about 5 percent by weight of said colloid.
  • copolymer comprises from about to about mole percent acrylic acid units.

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