Packaging material for photosensitive materials

Abstract: A packaging material comprises a coextruded multilayer film with a Young's Modulus in the longitudinal direction of more than 40 kg/mm², comprising a polyolefin resin film layer, an ethylene copolymer resin film layer, a metallised flexible sheet layer laminated on said coextruded multilayer film, and a flexible sheet layer laminated on said metallised flexible sheet layer. The packaging material is resitant to curling and to tearing, exhibits the properties necessary for packaging photosensitive materials and is suitable for use in automatic bag-making machines.

Description: This invention relates to a packaging material for photosensitive materials such as photographic photosensitive materials. For packaging material for photographic photosensitive materials, it is necessary that various properties are present such as light-shielding, moistureproofness, gas barrier and physical strength. Among them, there are the packaging films consisting of a flexible sheet and a thermoplastic resin film containing a light-shielding material laminated on one side of the flexible sheet. The flexible sheet is a metal foil or an aluminum-metallized film such as an aluminum-metallized nylon resin film, an aluminum-metallized polyester resin film, an aluminum-metallized polyethylene resin film, an aluminum-metallized polypropylene resin film or the like, and the thermoplastic resin film is a high pressure low density polyethylene (LDPE) resin film, a linear low density polyethylene (L-LDPE) or the like. These packaging films produce intense curl, and bag-making is difficult. Thereupon, another flexible sheet was further laminated on the other side of the flexible sheet so as to decrease curling. This flexible sheet was heat-resistant, and it was paper, nonwoven fabric or various thermoplastic resin films, such as nylon resin film, polyester resin film, high density polyethylene resin film or polypropylene resin film, being biaxially stretched, uniaxially stretched or unstretched and containing or not containing a light-shielding material. In order to decrease curling, this flexible sheet to be laminated necessarily had to have a similar composition and a similar thickness and had to contain a light-shielding material. For packaging heavy photographic photosensitive materials having sharp edges such as a roll film for movie, the packaging materials shown in FIGURE 1 to FIGURE 3 and FIGURE 14 were conventionally employed. The packaging material of FIGURE 14 consists of a foamed sheet 26 and two uniaxially stretched light-shielding film layers 12a laminated on both sides of the foamed sheet each through an adhesive layer 5 (USP 4,565,733). However, the packaging material for packaging heavy photographic photosensitive materials having sharp edges, of FIGURE 1 was weak in physical strength. The packaging material of FIGURE 2 was punctured by the sharp edge of a photographic photosensitive material. The inside surface layer was shaved to generate black powder, and it adhered on the photographic photosensitive material. This caused developing troubles. The packaging material of FIGURE 3 was remarkably improved in tear strength. However, since this packaging material was poor in buffer action, it was sometimes punctured by the sharp edge. It had also problems in heat-sealing strength and heat sealability. The packaging material of FIGURE 14 was excellent in physical strength such as tear strength. However, it had a problem in bag-making, and bag-making ability in an automatic bag-making machine was bad. Moreover, cutting waste of the uniaxially stretched film generated in quantity, and it became expensive. US-A-4576865 describes a laminate for packaging photosensitive materials. This laminate comprises a substrate, an intermediate layer and a surface layer, the latter two being coextruded. The object of the invention is to provide a packaging material for photosensitive materials of which curling hardly occurs, which is excellent in bag-making, excellent in wear resistance and black powder does not generate even during transportation, suitable for weight photographic photosensitive materials having sharp edges which are hardly punctured by the sharp edge and which is inexpensive. This object has been achieved with a packaging material for photosensitive materials comprising a coextruded multilayer film layer comprising a polyolefin resin film layer and an ethylene copolymer resin film layer, a metallized flexible sheet layer laminated on said coextruded multilayer film layer, and a flexible sheet layer laminated on said metallized flexible sheet layer, characterized by the coextruded multilayer having a Young's modulus in longitudinal direction of more than 392.3. N/mm 2 , the polyolefin resin film layer having a density of 0.941 to 0.970 g/cm 3 , a melt index of 0.1 to 5g/10 min and a Young's modulus in longitudinal direction of more than 490.3 N/mm 2 and the ethylene copolymer resin film layer having a density of 0.870 to 0.939 g/cm 3 and a melt index of 0.1 to 15 g/10 min. FIGURES 1 to 3 are sectional views of conventional packaging materials. FIGURES 4 to 11 are sectional views of preferred embodiments of he invention suitable for weight photographic photosensitive materials having sharp edges. FIGURES 12 and 13 are sectional views of comparative packaging materials. FIGURES 14 is a sectional view of a conventional packaging material. The packaging material suitable for heavy photographic photosensitive materials having sharp edges comprises a coextruded multilayer film layer comprising a polyolefin resin film layer and an ethylene copolymer resin film layer, a metallized flexible sheet layer and another flexible sheet layer. The polyolefin resin film layer is preferably composed of more than 50 wt. % of high density polyethylene (HDPE) resin in view of the improvement of physical properties. the improvement of film moldability and lowering cost. Representative resins blendable with HDPE resin are polyolefin resins. Examples of such a polyolefin resin include LDPE resin, medium density polyethylene (MDPE) resin, HDPE resin, L-LDPE resin, ethylene-propylene copolymer resin (random type or block type), ethylene-(butene-1) copolymer resin, propylene-(butene-1) copolymer resin, ethylene-propylene-(butene-1) copolymer resin, poly(butene-1) resin, polystyrene resin, poly(methyl methacrylate) resin, styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer resin, ABS resin, PP resin, crystalline propylene-α-olefin copolymer resin, modified polypropylene resin, modified polyethylene resin, polypropylene-maleic anhydride graft copolymer resin, chlorinated polyolefin resin such as chlorinated polyethylene resin, chlorinated HDPE resin, chlorinated LDPE resin, chlorinated polyethylene copolymer resin and chlorinated atactic PP resin, EVA resin, ethylene ionomer resin (copolymer of ethylene and unsaturated acid is crosslinked by metal ion), poly(4-methylpentene-1) resin, EAA resin, EMA resin, EEA resin, vinyl chloride-propylene copolymer resin, ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin, crosslinked polyethylene resin (electron rays irradiation crosslinking, chemical crosslinking, etc.), polyisobutylene resin, ethylene-vinyl chloride copolymer resin and poly(1,2-butadiene)resin. The density of the polyolefin resin film layer is 0.941 to 0.970 g/cm 3 . When the density is less than 0.941 g/cm 3 , surface strength becomes insufficient because of low crystallinity. As a result, the surface is scraped off by the sharp edge of packaged products. While, when the density is beyond 0.970 g/cm 3 , the crystallinity becomes too high. The molecules of the polyolefin resin film layer are oriented in longitudinal direction, and accordingly, this film is easily torn in the longitudinal direction. Film moldability and heat sealing properties are also degraded. The MI of the polyolefin resin film layer is 0.1 to 5 g/10 minutes. When the MI is less than 0.1 g/10 minutes, film molding becomes difficult because of large molecular weight. While, when the MI is beyond 5 g/10 minutes, surface strength becomes insufficient. As a result, the surface is scraped off by the sharp edge of packaged products. The Young's modulus in longitudinal direction of the polyolefin resin film layer is more than 490.3 N/mm 2 (50 kg/mm 2 ). When the Young's modulus is less than 490.3 N/mm 2 (50 kg/mm 2 ), the surface is scraped off by the sharp edge of packaged products. The surface is also worn away during transportation. The thickness of the polyolefin resin film layer is generally 10 to 140 µm, preferably 20 to 70 µm. The ethylene copolymer resin film layer is composed of an ethylene copolymer resin such as L-LDPE resin, EVA resin, EEA resin, EMA resin or EAA resin or a mixture thereof. A preferable resin is L-LDPE resin in view of tear strength and impact puncture strength. The density of the ethylene copolymer resin film layer is 0.870 to 0.939 g/cm 3 . When the density is less than 0.870 g/cm 3 , bag-making ability becomes bad, and blockings occur. While, when the density is beyond 0.939 g/cm 3 , the molecules of the ethylene copolymer resin film layer are oriented in longitudinal direction. Accordingly, the tear strength in the longitudinal direction of the coextruded film becomes insufficient. The MI of the ethylene copolymer resin film layer is 0.1 to 15 g/10 minutes. When the MI is less then 0.1 g/10 minutes, melt viscosity becomes too high. As a result, film moldability becomes bad, and melt fracture occurs. Film surface also becomes rough. While, when the MI is beyond 15 g/10 minutes, physical strength becomes insufficient. Film moldability also becomes bad. The thickness of the ethylene copolymer resin film layer is generally 10 to 140 µm, preferably 20 to 70 µm. The Young's modulus in longitudinal direction of the coextruded multilayer film layer containing these layers is more than 392.3 N/mm 2 (40 kg/mm 2 ). When the Young's modulus is less than 392.3 N/mm 2 (40 kg/mm 2 ), the the coextruded multilayer film is extended by stretching force at the time of laminating the metallized flexible sheet layer. Since the coextruded multilayer film shrinks after the lamination, the laminated film sharply curls. Besides, surface strength becomes insufficient. The coextruded multilayer film layer may be composed of three or more layers. The additional layer may be the polyolefin resin film layer, the ethylene copolymer resin film layer or other layers. However, the summed thickness of the polyolefin resin film layer and the ethylene copolymer resin film layer should be more than 30 % of the total thickness of the coextruded multilayer film layer. The thickness of the coextruded multilayer film layer is generally 30 to 200 µm, preferably 50 to 150 um. The metallized flexible sheet layer is formed of a flexible sheet and a metallic membrane layer deposited on the flexible sheet. As the flexible sheet, various thermoplastic resin films are usable, however, the films of uniaxially or biaxially oriented thermoplastic resins such as polyester resin, polyamide resin, polyethylene resin, polypropylene resin and polystyrene resin are preferable in view of physical strength and heat resistance. The thickness of the flexible sheet is usually 6 to 200 µm, preferably 10 to 100 µm. The metallic membrane layer may be formed of a pure metal such as Al, Sn, Zn, Co, Cr, Ni, Fe, Cu, etc., alloys thereof, or any other metals of which metallic membrane layer can be made, but aluminum is the most preferable in terms of processing and cost. The thickness of the metallic membrane layer is 5.5 to 120 nm (55 to 1200Å). When the thickness is thinner than 5.5 nm (55Å), antistatic property, moistureproofness and light-shielding by this layer become insufficient. While, when the thickness is thicker than 120 nm (1200Å), the degradation of the flexible sheet occurs by the heat of metallizing. The physical strength of the laminated film also falls. In the case of aluminum-metallized membrane, preferable thickness is thicker than 7 nm (70Å) more preferably 8 to 80 nm (80 to 800Å), further more preferably 10 to 60 nm (10 to 600Å). In the case of using a hygroscopic film such as polyamide film, the metallic membrane layer is preferably located on the side of another flexible sheet layer further laminated thereon. Metallization is carried out according to a known method, such as vacuum evaporation, sputtering, ion plating, or electron beam heating. The metallic membrane layer may be formed on one face or both faces of the flexible sheet layer. In order to improve adhesiveness of the metallic membrane layer to the flexible sheet, the flexible sheet layer may be provided with an anchor coat layer. The anchor coating agent may be usual one such as polyethyleneimine, polyisocyanate, polyurethane, alkyl titanate, polybutadiene, polyolefin, polyester, polyethylene, organic titanate or the like, and the anchor coat layer may be provided by applying the anchor coating agent by means of gravure roll coating, bar coating, dropping coating or the like. The surface of the flexible sheet may be treated by glow discharge, corona discharge, ultraviolet irradiation, ozone treatment, chemical reagent treatment, flame treatment, or the like. A protection layer may be provided on the metallic membrane layer in order to protect the metallic membrane layer. As the resin for the protection layer, acrylic resin, cellulose resins such as cellulose acetate resin, urethane resin, epoxy resin, polyester resin, ionomer resin, EEA resin, various polyethylene resins and various polypropylene resins are usable Wax, gelatin and polyvinyl alcohol are also usable. The thickness of the protection layer is made extremely thin such as thinner than 50 µm, preferably thinner than 5 µm, in order to eliminate stalic electricity effectively. Such a protection layer may be formed by a known solution coating or spray coating. A conductive material such as an antistatic agent, carbon black, a metal powder such as aluminum powder or aluminum paste or carbon fiber may be added to a flexible sheet, a light-shielding layer, an adhesive layer or the protection layer, and thereby, elimination of static electricity is made sure. Another flexible sheet layer laminated on the metallized flexible sheet layer may be selected from the aforementioned flexible sheets for laminating on the side of the high Young's modulus thermoplastic resin film layer of the coextruded multilayer film layer. Preferable flexible sheets as the packaging material for photographic photosensitive material are oriented thermoplastic resin films such as uniaxially or biaxially oriented, including stretched, polyester resin, polyamide resin, polypropylene resin, HDPE resin, L-LDPE resin, polystyrene resin, polyvinylidene chloride resin or the like, bleached kraft paper, synthetic pulp paper, synthetic paper, nonwoven fabric, neutral paper, dustfree paper, or the like, in view of bad influence of harmful gas or contaminant upon the packaged photographic photosensitive materials, uniform quality, moistureproofness, printability, cost and the like. However, in the case that the influence of harmful gas or contaminant is not a problem, the flexible sheet may be unbleached kraft paper, semibleached kraft paper, Clupak paper, duostress paper, pure white roll paper, glassine paper, cellophane or the like. The heat resistances of the above two flexible sheets are preferably higher than the polyolefin resin film layer, and for example, the melting point or softening point is preferably higher by 10°C or more. A light-shielding material is preferably incorporated into one or more layers of the packaging material. The light-shielding material includes every material capable of shielding visible and ultraviolet lights. Examples of the light-shielding material are various carbon blacks, graphite, an ion oxide, zinc white, a titanium oxide, clay, aluminum powder, aluminum paste, calcium carbonate, mica, barium sulfate, talc, cadmium pigments, chrome yellow, red iron oxide, cobalt blue copperphthalocyanine pigments, monoazo and polyazo pigments, aniline black and various metal fibers. Various carbon black, aluminum powder and aluminum paste from which volatile components are preferable. The form of the light-shielding material prior to blending may be powder, paste, wet state, masterbatch, pellets, etc. Carbon blacks are divided into gas black, oil furnace black, anthracene black, acetylene black, lamp black, vegetable black and animal black according to their origin. Among these, oil furnace carbon black is preferable in terms of light-shielding character, cost and improvement of properties. On the other hand, since acetylene black and Ketjen carbon black have antistatic character, they are also preferable, though they are expensive. The may be blended to the oil furnace black in order to improve its character. Suitable pH of carbon black is at 5 to 9, and suitable mean particle size is less than 200 mµ, particularly 10 to 50 mµ. Particularly, the oil furnace carbon black having pH 6 to 8 and mean particle size of 15 to 30 mµ is preferable. By using the carbon black of such pH and particle size, a packaging material having the following merits is obtained. That is, the occurrence of fogging is rare, increase or decrease of photosensitivity scarcely happens, light-shielding ability is large, and the lumps of carbon black and pinholes such as fish eye hardly generate. As the method of blending a light-shielding material, the masterbatch method is preferable in points of cost and clear process. The mean particle size of the carbon black is less than 200 mµ. When the mean particle size is beyond 200 mµ, the physical strength such as tear strength of coextruded film lowers. A suitable content of the light-shielding material is generally 0.5 to 50 g/m 2 . In the packaging material suitable for weight photographic photosensitive materials having sharp edges, the coextruded multilayer film may be formed by conventional coextrusion such as T die extrusion or inflation process. In the packaging material, the flexible sheet layer, the metallized flexible sheet layer and other layers may be laminated according to an usual method such as heat sealing (hot bar sealing, flame melt adhesion, hot blast adhesion, impulse heat sealing, supersonic adhesion, etc.), the method using an adhesive (wet laminating, dry laminating, hot melt laminating extrusion laminating etc.) and coextrusion method. Representative adhesives are thermoplastic resin melting adhesives including polyolefin adhesives, hot melting type gum adhesives and solution type adhesives. The polyolefin adhesives include homopolymers and copolymers of olefins such as various polyethylenes, polypropylenes, polybutenes, ethylene-propylene copolymers and L-LDPE, copolymers of an olefin and another monomer such as ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, ethylene-ethyl acrylate copolymer, ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer, various ionomers ("SURLYN" Dupont, "Himiran" Mitsui Polychemicals Co., Ltd., etc.) and graft copolymers. The solution type adhesives are divided into adhesives for wet lamination and adhesives for dry lamination. The adhesives for wet lamination are in form of an emulsion or latex. Examples of the emulsion-type adhesives are polyvinyl acetate emulsion, the emulsion of vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer, the emulsion of vinyl acetate-acrylate ester copolymer, the emulsion of vinyl acetate-maleate ester copolymer, the emulsion of acrylic copolymer and the emulsion of ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer. Examples of the latex-type adhesives are natural rubber latex, styrene-butadiene rubber latex, acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber latex and chloroprene rubber latex. Examples of the adhesives for dry lamination are isocyanate adhesive and polyurethane adhesive. Adhesives for hot melt lamination where paraffin wax, microcrystalline wax, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, ethylene-ethylacrylate copolymer and etc. are blended, pressure-sensitive adhesives, temperature-sensitive adhesives and ultraviolet rays-setting adhesive may also be employed. Melting point of the adhesive employed is preferably lower than 5°C from the melting point of the layers to be joined in order to laminate without bad influence upon the layer to coated by a thermal melting adhesion. The thickness of the adhesive layer formed by extrusion laminating using a thermoplastic resin is usually 5 to 300 µm, preferably 13 to 70 µm in the case of the packaging material not curled, usually 8 to 50 µm, preferably 10 to 20 µm in the case of the packaging material suitable for weight photographic photosensitive materials having sharp edges, and usually 6 to 50 µm, preferably 10 to 20 µm in the case of the packaging material tearable by hand. A lubricant is preferably blended into various layers of the packaging materials in order to improve film moldability, slipping character, processibility and the like. Examples of commercial lubricants suitable for the present invention include; Silicone lubricant; "SHINETSU SILICONE" (Shinetsu Chemical Co., Ltd.) "TORAY SILICONE" (Toray Silicone Co., Ltd.) Oleic acid amide lubricants; "ARMOSLIP-CP" (Lion Akzo Co., Ltd.), "NEWTRON" and "NEWTRON E 18 (Nippon Fine Chemical Co., Ltd.), "AMIDE-O (Nitto Kagaku K.K.), "DIAMID O-200" and "DIAMID G-200" (Nippon Kasei Chemical Co., Ltd.) Erucic acid amide lubricants; "ALFLOW P-10" (Nippon Oil and Fats Co., Ltd.) Stearic acid amide lubricants; "ALFLOW S-10" (Nippon Oil and Fats Co., Ltd.), "NEWTRON 2" (Nippon Fine Chemical Co., Ltd.), "DIAMID 200" (Nippon Kasei Chemical Co., Ltd.) Bis fatty acid amide lubricants; "BISAMIDE" (Nitto Kagaku K.K.), "DIAMID-200 BIS" (Nippon Kasei Chemical Co., Ltd.), "ARMOWAX-EBS" (Lion Akzo Co., Ltd.) Alkylamine lubricants; "ELECTROSTRIPPER TS-2", "ELECTROSTRIPPER TS-3" (Kao Corp.) Suitable content of the lubricant is 0.01 to 1 wt. % so as not to affect bad influence upon photographic photosensitive materials. Various additives may be added to one or more of the above layers. Examples of the additives are descried below. Two or more lubricants may be blended to use. The number of carbon atom of the fatty acid amide lubricants suitable for the invention is 8 to 50, preferably 15 to 35. (1) Plasticizer; phthalic acid esters, glycol esters, fatty acid esters, phosphoric acid esters, etc. (2) Stabilizer; lead compounds, cadmium compounds, zinc compounds, alkaline earth metal compounds, organic tin compounds, etc. (3) Antistatic agent; cation surfactants, anion surfactants, nonion surfactants, ampholytic surfactants, etc. (4) Flame retardant; phosphoric acid esters, phosphoric acid ester halides, halides, inorganic materials, polyols containing phosphor, etc. (5) Filler; alumina, kaolin, clay, calcium carbonate, mica, talc, titanium oxide, silica, etc. (6) Reinforcing agent; glass lobing, metallic fiber, glass fiber, glass milled fiber, carbon fiber, etc. (7) Coloring agent; inorganic pigments (Al, Fe 2 O 3 , TiO 2 , ZnO,CdS, etc.), organic pigments, dyes, etc. (8) Blowing agent; inorganic blowing agents (ammonium carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate), organic blowing agents (nitroso compounds, azo compounds), etc. (9) Vulcanizing agent; vulcanization accelerator, acceleration assistant, etc. (10) Deterioration preventing agent; ultraviolet absorber, antioxidant, metal deactivator, peroxide decomposing agent, etc. (11) Nucleating agent; organic nucleating agents (di-substituted benzilidene sorbitol,etc.), inorganic nucleating agents, etc. (12) Coupling agent; silane compounds, titanium compounds, chromium compounds, aluminum compounds, etc. (13) Various thermoplastic resins, rubbers The packaging material of the invention is suitable for packaging silver halide photographic photosensitive materials, diazo photographic photosensitive materials, photosensitive resins, self-developing type photographic materials and diffusion-transfer type photographic materials, etc. This packaging material is also usable for packaging foods such as chocolate, margarine, miso, wine and beer, medicines, dyes and other chemical materials such as developing solution and mordants for dying and the like. This packaging material is particularly suitable for the moistureproof light-shielding double sheet bag for photographic photosensitive materials of which quality is degraded by a small amount of a gas, light or moisture. Package form may be usual, and includes a single-sheet flat bag, a double-sheet flat bag, a square bottom bag, a self-standing bag, a single-sheet gusset bag, a double-sheet gusset bag, a film sheet, inner lining for a moistureproof box and a leader paper. The bag-making may be carried out according to the known adhesion method of plastic films, such as flame melt adhesion hot blast adhesion, hot plate adhesion, impulse heat sealing, fusing, supersonic adhesion or high frequency sealing. The bag-making may also be carried out by the method using an adhesive such as gum adhesive, hot melt adhesive, solution adhesive, pressure-sensitive adhesive or heat-sensitive adhesive. In the packaging material suitable for weight packaging material having sharp edges, the polyolefin resin film layer prevents curling and deviated elongation, and it secures tensile strength, surface strength, wear resistance, antiblocking and slipping character. The ethylene copolymer resin film layer secures tear strength, impact puncture strength and elongation. The metallized flexible sheet layer secures moistureproofness, gas barrier, antistatic property and prevention of the temperature elevation under the sunlight. The other flexible sheet layer secures prevention of scratches, tensile strength and heat resistance, and it also protects the metallized flexible sheet layer. This packaging material is excellent in physical strength such as tear strength. Therefore, when it packages weight photosensitive materials having sharp edges, it is not broken such as tear or puncture. It is also excellent in wear resistance, light-shielding, moistureproofness, heat sealing properties and bag-making ability for automatic bag-making machine. Representative packaging materials of the invention suitable for weight photographic photosensitive materials are illustrated in FIGURES 4 to 11. The packaging material of FIGURE 4 consists of a coextruded multilayer film layer 18a consisting of a light-shielding polyolefin resin film layer 19a and a light-shielding ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a, a light-shielding metallized flexible sheet layer 21a consisting of a metallic membrane layer 8 and a light-shielding flexible sheet layer 22a laminated thereon through an adhesive layer 5, and another light-shielding flexible sheet layer 1a further laminated thereon through an adhesive layer 5. The packaging material of FIGURE 5 is the same as the packaging material of FIGURE 4 except that the flexible sheet layer 22a is provided with an anchor coating layer 23 and that no light-shielding material is added to the other flexible sheet layer 1. The packaging material of FIGURE 6 is the same as the packaging material of FIGURE 4 except that a protection layer 24 is provided on the metallic membrane layer 8 and that no light-shielding material is added to the other flexible sheet layer 1 and the flexible sheet layer to be metallized. The packaging material of FIGURE 7 is the same as the packaging material of FIGURE 6 except that an anchor coating layer 23 is provided on the surface of the flexible sheet layer 4 to be metallized and that no light-shielding material is added to the ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20. The packaging material of FIGURE 8 is the same as the packaging material of FIGURE 4 except that the metallic membrane layer 8 of the metallized flexible sheet layer 21a is located on the side of the coextruded multilayer film layer 18a and that no light-shielding material is added to the flexible sheet layer 22 to be metallized nor the polyolefin resin film layer 19. The packaging material of FIGURE 9 is the same as the packaging material of FIGURE 8 except that no light-shielding material is added to the flexible sheet layer 1 whereas that a light-shielding material is added to the polyolefin resin film layer 19a. Tile packaging material of FIGURE 10 is the same as the packaging material of FIGURE 4 except that an intermediate layer 6 is provided in the coextruded multilayer film layer 18a and that no light-shielding material is added to the flexible sheet layer 22 to be metallized nor the other flexible sheet layer 1. The packaging material of FIGURE 11 is the same as the packaging material of FIGURE 10 except that the intermediate layer is not provided and instead that a heat sealing layer 25 is provided under the polyolefin resin film layer 19a. FIGURES 12 and 13 indicate two comparative packaging materials to the packaging material of the invention suitable for weight photographic photosensitive materials having sharp edges. The packaging material of FIGURE 12 consists of a light-shielding ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a, a metallized flexible sheet layer 21a consisting of a flexible sheet layer 22 and a metallic membrane layer 8 laminated thereon through an adhesive layer 5 so that the metallic membrane layer 8 is directed to the ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a, and another flexible sheet layer 1 further laminated thereon through an adhesive layer 5. The packaging material of FIGURE 13 is the same as the packaging material of FIGURE 12 except that the ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a is replaced by a light-shielding polyolefin resin film layer 19a. Various properties were measured as to the packaging materials of the invention IV to VIII, a comparative packaging material II and conventional packaging materials II, III, and the results are shown in Table 2. The packaging material of the invention IV corresponds to the packaging material of FIGURE 5, and composed of the following layers. Flexible sheet layer 1: Semibleached kraft paper Areal weight; 50 g/m 2 Adhesive layer 5: LDPE resin extrusion laminate adhesive layer Thickness; 15 µm Metallic membrane layer 8: Aluminum vacuum metallizing Thickness; 40 nm (400 Å) Anchor coating layer 23: Polyisocyanate anchor coating agent Flexible sheet layer 22a: Biaxially stretched nylon film Thickness; 15 µm Adhesive layer 5: The same as above Coextruded multilayer film layer 18a: Thickness; 50 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 1059 N/mm 2 (108 kg/mm 2 ) Formal by inflation molding machine Ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a: L-LDPE resin 92 wt. % ("ULTZEX 2020L", Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Co., Ltd., MI; 2.1 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.920 g/cm 3 ) LDPE resin 5 wt. % ("DFD-0111", Nippon Unicar Co., Ltd., MI; 2.4 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.923 g/cm 3 ) Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 25 µm Polyolefin resin film layer 19a: HDPE resin 97 wt. % ("HIZEX 5300S", Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Co., Ltd., MI; 0.40 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.964 g/cm 3 ) Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 25 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction 1402 N/mm 2 (143 kg/mm 2 ) The packaging material of the invention V corresponds to the packaging material of FIGURE 9, and composed of the following layers. Flexible sheet layer: Biaxially stretched polypropylene film Thickness; 20 µm Adhesive layer 5: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Flexible sheet layer 22: Biaxially stretched polyester film Thickness; 12 µm Metallic membrane layer 8: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Adhesive layer 5: The same as above Coextruded multilayer film layer 18a: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV The packaging material of the invention VI corresponds to the packaging material of FIGURE 9, and composed of the following layers. Flexible sheet layer 1: Bleached kraft paper Areal weight; 35 g/m 2 Adhesive layer 5: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Metallized flexible sheet layer 21a: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Adhesive layer 5: The same as above Coextruded multilayer film layer 18a: Thickness; 60 µm Young's modulus in longidudinal direction; 794 N/mm 2 (81 kg/mm 2 ) Formed by inflation molding machine Ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a: L-LDPE resin 80 wt. % ("ULTZEX 2020L", Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Co., Ltd., MI; 2.1 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.920 g/cm 3 ) HDPE resin 17 wt. % ("NISSEKI STAFLENE E 807 (F)") Nippon Petrochemicals Co., Ltd., MI; 0.6 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.950 g/cm 3 ) Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 25 µm Polyolefin resin film layer 19a: HDPE resin 80 wt. % ("NISSEKI STAFLENE E 807 (F)") L-LDPE resin 17 wt. % ("MORETECH 0138N" copolymer of ethylene and octene-1, Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd., MI; 1 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.920 g/cm 3 ) Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 35 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 1255 N/mm 2 (128 kg/mm 2 ) The packaging material of the invention VII corresponds to the packaging material of FIGURE 9, and composed of the following layers. Flexible sheet layer 1: The same as the packaging material of the invention V Adhesive layer 5: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Metallized flexible sheet layer 21a: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Adhesive layer 5: The same as above Coextruded multilayer film layer 18a: Thickness; 60 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 912 N/mm 2 (93 kg/mm 2 ) Ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a: L-LDPE resin 70 wt. % ("ULTZEX 2020L") EEA resin 27 wt. % ("EEA 6170", Nippon Unicar Co., Ltd. MI; 6 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.931 g/cm 3 ) Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 35 µm Polyolefin resin film layer 19a: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV The packaging material of the invention VIII corresponds to the packaging material of FIGURE 5, and composed of the following layers. Flexible sheet layer 1: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Adhesive layer 5: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Metallized flexible sheet layer 21a: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Adhesive layer 5: The same as above Coextruded multilayer film layer 18a: Thickness; 70 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 549 N/mm 2 (56 kg/mm 2 ) Ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a: L-LDPE resin 50 wt. % ("ULTZEX 2021L", Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Co., Ltd., MI; 2.1 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.923 g/cm 3 ) Conductive resin 50 wt. % ("NVC 6078", Nippon Unicar Co., Ltd.) Thickness; 35 µm Polyolefin resin film layer 19a: HDPE resin 97 wt. % ("HIZEX 3300F", Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Co., Ltd., MI; 1.1 g/10 minutes, Density; 0.954 g/cm 3 ) Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 35 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 843 N/mm 2 (86 kg/mm 2 ) The comparative packaging material II corresponds to the packaging material of FIGURE 12, and composed of the following layers. Flexible sheet layer 1: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Adhesive layer 5: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Metallized flexible sheet layer 21a: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Adhesive layer 5: The same as above Ethylene copolymer resin film layer 20a: Having the same composition as the packaging material of the invention IV Thickness; 70 um Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 275 N/mm 2 (28 kg/mm 2 ) The conventional packaging material II corresponds to the packaging material of FIGURE 1, and composed of the following layers. Flexible sheet layer 1: Bleached kraft paper Areal weight; 35 g/m 2 Adhesive layer 5: The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Aluminum foil layer 11: Thickness; 7 µm Adhesive layer 5: The same as above LDPE resin film layer 10a: LDPE resin 97 wt. % ("DFD-0111") Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 70 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 324 N/mm 2 (33 kg/mm 2 ) The conventional packaging material III corresponds to the packaging material of FIGURE 2, and composed of the following layers. LDPE resin film layer 10a (Upper): LDPE resin 97 wt. % ("DFD-0111") Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 50 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 324 N/mm 2 (33 kg/mm 2 ) Adhesive layers 5 (all): The same as the packaging material of the invention IV Flexible sheet layer 1: The same as the conventional packaging material II Aluminum foil layer 11: The same as the conventional packaging material II LDPE resin film layer 10a (Lower): LDPE resin 67 wt. % ("DFD-0111") Synthetic rubber 30 wt. % Carbon black 3 wt. % Thickness; 50 µm Young's modulus in longitudinal direction; 265 N/mm 2 (27 kg/mm 2 ) The carbon black used was oil furnace carbon black "#44B OIL FURNACE CARBON BLACK" (Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Ltd., Mean Particle size; 21 nm (21 mµ), pH; 7.7). Invention Comparative II Conventional IV V VI VII VIII II III Fig. 23 Fig. 27 Fig. 27 Fig. 27 Fig. 23 Fig. 30 Fig. 18 Fig. 19 Wear Resistance A A B A B C D D Bag Breakage by Vibration A A A-B A B C D-E D Tensile Strength longitudinal (kg/15 mm Width) 10.4 9.2 9.3 9.8 11.5 5.8 5.3 6.1 Lateral 6.7 5.8 5.9 6.2 7.6 4.9 4.6 5.2 Right-Reverse Judgement ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ X 1 kg = 9.81 N Evaluations in Table 2 were carried out as follows; A very excellent B excellent C practical D having a problem E impractical Testing methods were as follows: Melt Index; ASTM D-1238 Density; ASTM D-1505 Thickness; JIS P-8118 Young's Modulus; ASTM D-638 Bag Breakage by Vibration: Sheet color photographic printing papers using polyethylene laminate support weighing 2 kg were placed in a three-sided fin seal flat bag, and this flat bag was sealed and put in a decorated box. Ten decorated boxes were placed in a corrugated board box. The corrugated board boxes were stacked in double in two rows, and fixed by using rubber stringe. The vibration test was carried out according to JIS Z-0322, and the breakage state of the bags was judged by observation. Wear Resistance: In the above vibration test, wear resistance was judged by the amount of black powder adhered on the color photographic printing papers estimated by observation. Tensile Strength: JIS P-8113 Right-Reverse Judgement: Distinguishability of the night surface and the reverse surface of the packaging material by the naked eye or tactility under a safety light during the packaging process of photosensitive materials.

Claims: A packaging material for photosensitive materials comprising a coextruded multilayer film layer comprising a polyolefin resin film layer and an ethylene copolymer resin film layer, a metallized flexible sheet layer laminated on said coextruded multilayer film layer, and a flexible sheet layer laminated on said metallized flexible sheet layer, characterized by the coextruded multilayer having a Young's modulus in longitudinal direction of more than 392.3 N/mm 2 (40 kg/mm 2 ), the polyolefin resin film layer having a density of 0.941 to 0.970 g/cm 3 , a melt index of 0.1 to 5g/10 min and a Young's modulus in longitudinal direction of more than 490.3 N/mm 2 (50 kg/mm 2 ) and the ethylene copolymer resin film layer having a density of 0.870 to 0.939 g/cm 3 and a melt index of 0.1 to 15 g/10 min. The packaging material of claim 1 wherein the thickness of said coextruded multilayer film layer is 30 to 150 µm. The packaging material of claim 1 wherein the thickness of said polyolefin resin film layer is 30 to 70% of the coextruded multilayer film layer and the thickness of said ethylene copolymer resin film layer is 70 to 30% of the said coextruded multilayer film layer. The packaging material of claim 1 wherein said metallized flexible sheet layer is an aluminum metallized uniaxially or biaxially oriented thermoplastic resin film layer. The packaging material of claim 1 wherein the heat resistance of said flexible sheet layer is higher than that of said polyolefin resin film layer. The packaging material of claim 1 wherein said flexible sheet layer is selected from the group consisting of white or light color paper, synthetic paper, nonwoven fabric and molecular oriented thermoplastic resin films. The packaging material of claim 1 which contains 0.5 to 50 g/m 2 of a light shielding material. The packaging material of claim 7 wherein the mean particle size of said light-shielding material is less than 200 µm.

Inventors: AKAO MUTSUO, KOMATSU TAKUICHI, AKAO, MUTSUO, KOMATSU, TAKUICHI
Applicants: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO LTD, FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
Application year: 1988
Main classification: B32B27
IPC codes: B65D65, B32B27, G03C3, B32B7