US3674481A - Image receiving material for the silver salt diffusion process - Google Patents

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US3674481A
US3674481A US41085A US3674481DA US3674481A US 3674481 A US3674481 A US 3674481A US 41085 A US41085 A US 41085A US 3674481D A US3674481D A US 3674481DA US 3674481 A US3674481 A US 3674481A
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Anita Von Konig
Werner Liebe
Helmut Timmler
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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
    • G03C8/00Diffusion transfer processes or agents therefor; Photosensitive materials for such processes
    • G03C8/24Photosensitive materials characterised by the image-receiving section
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  • the invention relates to an image receiving material for the silver salt diffusion process which contains heterocyclic dimercapto compounds for improving the stability of the finished silver images.
  • the silver salt diffusion process for the direct production of positives is described in French Pat. No. 879,995.
  • the unexposed and undeveloped silver halide of an exposed silver halide emulsion layer is dissolved during development, and transferred to an image receiving layer, which is in close contact with the exposed silver halide emulsion layer, so as to produce a positive image in the image receiving layer upon development of the transferred silver halide in the presence of development nuclei which are uniformly distributed in the image receiving layer.
  • the terms negative and positive are to be understood as being only in relation to one another, i.e. direct negatives can also be obtained from a negative original by the same process.
  • the complex forming agent required for dissolving the unexposed and undeveloped silver halide is added either to the developer or to the image receiving layer.
  • the finished copy therefore, still contains thiosulfate in quantities of about 0.5 to 1.5 g./m.
  • the presence of compounds which form complexes with the silver salt gives rise to the disadvantages that these complex forming agents reduce the concentration of silver ions and thereby facilitate the oxidation of the metallic silver.
  • the image silver is, therefore, easily attacked by oxidation and converted into a complex or simple silver salt. This causes particularly in a moist atmosphere fading of the silver image or a brown discoloration of the silver in the image.
  • an image receiving material for the silver salt diffusion process which comprises an image receiving layer which may contain development nuclei, the image receiving layer containing a mercapto triazole derivative of the following formula:
  • Y an alkylene chain containing 3 to 10 methylene groups which are interrupted by hetero atoms such as oxygen or sulfur or imino groups.
  • the concentration of the mercaptotriazole compounds in the image receiving layer may vary within wide limits. This depends on the requirements of the reproduction process and eifectivenes of the particular compounds. Quantities of between 1 and 300 mg./m. and preferably between 5 and 100 mg./m. of image receiving layer, have generally been found to be sufficient.
  • the triazole derivatives are soluble in aqueous alkalies or dimethylformamide and may be added in form of solution to the casting solutions for the production of the image receiving layer.
  • the image receiving material generally consists of an image receiving layer on a suitable support.
  • the support may be the known sheet-like materials, particularly paper, preferably baryta-coated paper.
  • Suitable binders for the image receiving layer are the hydrophilic film-forming materials usually used for this purpose, e.g. proteins, particularly gelatin, also starch or starch derivatives, alginic acid or derivatives thereof such as salts, esters or amides, also carragenates or synthetic binders such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, partially saponified polyvinyl acetate, etc.
  • hydrophilic film-forming materials usually used for this purpose, e.g. proteins, particularly gelatin, also starch or starch derivatives, alginic acid or derivatives thereof such as salts, esters or amides, also carragenates or synthetic binders such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, partially saponified polyvinyl acetate, etc.
  • the image receiving layer contains development nuclei of the usual type, e.g. sulfides or selenides of heavy metals such as cobalt, nickel, zinc or silver, and, furthermore nuclei of these metals.
  • Modified nuclei of heavy metal sulfides or heavy metal selenides consisting of a core of an inert material, of a metal or of a sulfide or selenide other than that present in the surface are also suitable. Nuclei of this type have been described in German Pat. No. 1,201,997 or in US. Pats. Nos. 2,698,236; 2,698,238 or 2,698,245.
  • the image receiving layers may, of course, contain the usual additives, particularly blue toners. Image receiving layers of this type have been described in German Pats. Nos. 1,108,563; 1,124,355; 1,124,354 and 1,153,247.
  • the usual light-sensitive materials which generally contain a light-sensitive silver halide gelatin emulsion layer are suitable for the modification of the silver salt diffusion Quantities or 1 to 300 mg., preferably 50 to 250 mg./l.
  • EXAMPLE 1 Image receiving material A baryta-coating of the following solution is applied to a support of paper (80 g. per m?);
  • the baryta layer is dried and then coated with an image receiving layer of the following casting solution:
  • the layer is applied in such a thickness that it contains about 1.1 g. of sodium thiosulfate per m9.
  • This layer is applied in such a thickness that it contains about 0.6 g. of sodium thiosulfate per 111. .Y
  • the above image receiving layer is brought into contact with an exposed silver chloride gelatin emulsion layer and developed in the following developer bath, using a conventional processing apparatus:
  • the contact time is 15 seconds.
  • the negative is separated from the image receiving layer.
  • a portion cut out of the finished copy is stored for 24 hours in a vessel over water.
  • Several of these uniformly moist portions of copies are introduced into a polyethylene bag which is inserted into a second bag containing 30 ml. of Water and the bags are sealed.
  • the sealed bags are stored in a heating cupboard at 60 C. for 24 hours and 48 hours, respectively, and the alteration in the silver image is judged at the end of this time.
  • the comparison sample shows a discoloration varying from brown to pale brown.
  • the maximum density of the various materials is determined on fresh, air dried copies and copies which have been stored in moist heat, using a densitometer customarily employed in the art. The following results are obtained:
  • the light-sensitive silver halide layer contains about 600 mg. of hydroquinone an 150 g. of l-phenylpyrazolidone-(3) per m.
  • the light-sensitive layer is exposed, contacted with an image receiving layer as described in Example 1 and developed in the following activator solution instead of in the developer bath indicated in Example 1:
  • a light-insensitive image receiving material for the silver salt difiusion process comprising an image receiving layer which contains a compound of the following formula:
  • Y an alkylene chain containing 3 to 10 methylene groups which are interrupted by oxygen, sulfur or imino groups.
  • Patent NO. 8 Dated Agril 13, 1971 Inventor(s) James A. Pyne, Jr. e't. a1.

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US4242436A (en) * 1977-12-15 1980-12-30 Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Photographic material for continuous tone reproduction
US4731410A (en) * 1985-07-08 1988-03-15 Basf Aktiengesellschaft Polyurethane adhesive mixtures
US4760015A (en) * 1986-04-23 1988-07-26 Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft Stabilization of a photographically produced silver image using an amino-1,2,4-triazole

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4242436A (en) * 1977-12-15 1980-12-30 Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Photographic material for continuous tone reproduction
US4731410A (en) * 1985-07-08 1988-03-15 Basf Aktiengesellschaft Polyurethane adhesive mixtures
US4760015A (en) * 1986-04-23 1988-07-26 Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft Stabilization of a photographically produced silver image using an amino-1,2,4-triazole

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