US3850639A - Hydrophilic colloid silver halide emulsion hardened with a bis(vinyl-sulfonylmethyl) ether and an acrylic compound - Google Patents

Hydrophilic colloid silver halide emulsion hardened with a bis(vinyl-sulfonylmethyl) ether and an acrylic compound Download PDF

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US3850639A
US3850639A US00357975A US35797573A US3850639A US 3850639 A US3850639 A US 3850639A US 00357975 A US00357975 A US 00357975A US 35797573 A US35797573 A US 35797573A US 3850639 A US3850639 A US 3850639A
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    • G03CPHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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  • compositions containing hydrophilic colloids such as gelatin which have been chemically hardened to photographic emulsions containing such chemically hardened colloids, and to colloid/hardener admixtures useful in the manufacture of such hardened compositions. More particularly, this invention is directed to gelatin-containing compositions which have been hardened with a mixture of chemical hardeners, which mixture causes better afterhardening characteristics (in the hardened compositions) than can be obtained by use of either of the individual hardeners alone.
  • Metallic salts for instance, such as those of chromium, aluminum, and zirconium tend to react with and harden gelatin so very quickly that their addition, before shaping of the gelatin, in quantities required to achieve the desired hardening, involves the risk of premature coagulation of the gelatin solution.
  • Aldehydes such as formaldehyde are partly volatilized when materials containing them are dried, so that an accurate dosage is difficult to realize.
  • Certain other simple organic hardeners require a high molecular weight ballast in order to render them nondiffusible which often causes adverse physical characteristics in the photographic emulsion. Also, such hardeners usually contain an undesirably low ratio of active hardening groups to ballast groups.
  • compositions containing hardened-hydrophilic colloid which compositions have been chemically hardened by a synergistic combination of hardeners for the purpose of improving the afterhardening effect of such hardeners.
  • hardener mixtures described in this application can be used most advantageously with natural or synthetic polymers used as vehicles or binders in preparing photographic elements.
  • Specific materials which can be hardened according to the practice of this invention include hardenable materials such as polymers, for example, gelatin, colloidal albumin, proteins, dispersed polymerized vinyl compounds, particularly those which increase the dimensional stability of photographic materials as exemplified by amine-containing polymers of alkyl acrylates, methacrylates, acrylic acid, sulfoalkyl acrylates or methacrylates, maleic acid, and the like.
  • hardenable hydrophilic colloids useful in the practice of this invention are those generally known in the photographic art which can be hardened by formaldehyde.
  • hardenable hydrophilic colloids are materials such as gelatin which have melting points below about 65C, and preferably between about 27C. and about 50C. Typical examples of such materials can be found in the aforementioned US. patents.
  • the hardening mixtures described herein can be used in various kinds of photographic emulsions. In addition to being useful in orthochromatic, panchromatic, and infrared emulsions, they are also useful in x-ray and other nonspectrally sensitized emulsions. They can be added to the emulsions before or after the addition of any spectral sensitizing dyes which may be used. They are effective in sulfur and gold sensitized silver halide emulsions.
  • the mixtures of hardeners of this invention possess good hardening properties when they are blended with hardenable materials in any useful form such as in solution, emulsion or layer form.
  • the mixtures can be used in any suitable hardening concentration which results in an increase in the melting point of the hardenable hydrophilic colloid of at least about 5C, including for example concentrations of from about 0.5 to about weight percent, based upon the dried weight of the hardenable material, and preferably within the range of from about 0.7 to 3 weight percent.
  • These mixtures of hardeners are particularly useful in hardening hardenable photographic light sensitive emulsion layers; more particularly, those which contain gelatin and photographic silver halide.
  • the mixtures of hardeners can be combined directly with the emulsion during its preparation, either as a mixture or as the individual components of the mixture. Then the treated emulsion can coated in layer form onto a substrate via conventional coating techniques and subsequently dried. The bulk of the hardening reaction (wherein the hardeners react with the hydrophilic colloid in the coated layer) preferably takes place during the drying step in such processes.
  • the resulting dried, chemically hardened photographic elements can then be subjected to relatively higher processing (developing, fixing, etc.) temperature conditions than could otherwise similar, but unhardened, photographic elements without being physically degraded due to the higher temperature.
  • Hardening can also be accomplished by contacting layer(s) of hardenable hydrophilic colloid material with an aqueous solution of one of the present hardener mixtures for a time, and at a temperature, which is sufficient to result in the desired degree of hardening (which can also take place during a subsequent drying step if desired).
  • tion can be coated on a wide variety of supports.
  • Typical supports include those generally employed for photographic elements, as exemplified by cellulose nitrate film, cellulose acetate film, polyvinyl acetal film, polystyrene film, polyethylene terephthalate film, and related films of resinous materials as well as glass, paper, metal, wood and the like.
  • Supports such as paper that are caoted with a-olefin polymers, particularly polymers of a-olefins containing 2-10 carbon atoms (for example, polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene butene copolymers, and the like) can also be employed.
  • photographic emulsions and elements can also contain other additives, particularly those known to be beneficial in photographic emulsions, as exemplified by spectral sensitizers, speed-increasing material, other hardeners, plasticizers, and the like.
  • the emulsions hardened by the mixtures of this invention can be used in photograph elements intended for color photography and thus may contain colorforming couplers. They may be used as emulsions to be developed by solutions containing such couplers or other color-generating materials, or they may be used as emulsions of the mixed-packet type.
  • the silver halides employed in the photographic emulsions include any of the photosensitive silver halides as exemplified by silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chloride, silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide, and the like.
  • the silver halides used can be those which form latent images predominantly on the surface of the silver halide grains or those which form latent images inside the silver halide grains.
  • Hardened emulsions obtained in accordance with this invention employing gelatin or other hardenable hydrophilic colloids may be used in diffusion transfer materials.
  • the undeveloped silver halide is complexed in nonimage areas of the negative to form a water-soluble compound which is permitted to diffuse to a receiving layer in which said compound precipitates out as a positive metallic silver image.
  • the final image is produced by diffusion of the developer, oxidized developer, coupler or dye, from the exposed and developed light-sensitive layer to a second layer in close proximity thereto. It is particularly advantageous to employ the hardener mixtures of this invention with hardenable substances or in systems comprising photographic emulsions, layers or solutions of hardenable matter where very little afterhardening is advantageous.
  • EXAMPLE I The hardeners which were tested were the following: Three layer photographic elements were prepared by I coating in a conventional manner on a cellulose acetate I diacrylamide photographic support the following layers: 11 his(vinylsulfonylmethyl)ether Ill bis(vinylsulfonylethyl)ether l a gelatm SuPlayer contammg 162 g gelatm per IV l,7-dichloro-3,3,5,5tctruoxo-3,S-dithiuhcptunc Square V Nmethacryloylucrylumitle 2.
  • a photographic element comprising a support and at least one layer comprising photosensitive silver halide and at least one layer comprising a reaction product of i. at least one hardenable hydrophilic colloid, and
  • a hardener composition in a concentration sufficient to increase the melting point of said hydrophilic colloid at least about 5C; the improvement which comprises using as a hardener composition a combination of a. bis(vinylsulfonylmethyl)ether and b. an acrylic hardener selected from the group consisting of diacrylamide, N-methacryloylacrylamide and N,N'-diacryloylurea; the weight ratio of (a) to (b) in said hardener composition being from about 5:1 to about 1:5.
  • a photographic element as in claim 1, wherein said hardenable hydrophilic colloid is gelatin.
  • a photographic emulsion composition containing at least one hardenable hydrophilic colloid, at least one photosensitive silver halide, and a hardener composition in an amount sufficient to increase the melting point of said hydrophilic colloid at least about 5C; the improvement which comprises using as said hardener composition a combination of a. bis(vinylsulfonylmethyl)ether and b. an acrylic hardener selected from the group consisting of diacrylamide, N-methacryloylacrylamide and N,N'-diacryloylurea; the weight ratio of (a) to (b) in said hardener composition being from about 5:1 to about 1:5.

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CA197,319A CA1019617A (en) 1973-05-07 1974-04-10 Controlling after-hardening in hardenable hydrophilic colloids
DE19742420414 DE2420414A1 (de) 1973-05-07 1974-04-26 Photographisches material
FR7415173A FR2229079B1 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1973-05-07 1974-05-02
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US4161407A (en) * 1977-10-06 1979-07-17 Eastman Kodak Company Crosslinkable polymers having vinylsulfonyl groups or styrylsulfonyl groups and their use as hardeners for gelatin
US5187259A (en) * 1990-11-14 1993-02-16 Eastman Kodak Company Chain extended gelatin
US5318889A (en) * 1992-12-21 1994-06-07 Eastman Kodak Company Use of chain-extended acid processed ossein gelatin in the preparation of photographic elements
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