Patent GB-551116-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to photographic elements for use in colour photography
IPC: G03C7/30
Filed: 1941-07-31
Abstract: 551,116. Colour photography. DU PONT FILM MANUFACTURING CORPORATION. July 31, 1941, No. 9757. Convention date, Aug. 1, 1940. [Class 98 (ii)] A colour-yielding unit includes a layer comprising a reducible silver salt and at least one coacting colour-former layer comprising a non- migratory colour-former which forms an indoplenol, indoaniline, or azomethine dye upon reaction with the oxidation products of a primary aromatic amino colour developing agent or forms an azo dye upon coupling with a diazo compound, the layers being separated by a waterpermeable stripping layer or containing in the colour-former layer a surface-active agent which facilitates stripping of the colour-former layer from the silver salt layers. The colour-yielding unit may be releasably attached to a support by means of a water-soluble adhesive layer. A subbed cellulose acetate support may be coated with a silver bromide emulsion, a thin coating of sodium cellulose glycollate, and a gelatin dispersion of 1:5 stearylaminonaphthol. After exposure, the film may be developed with an arylenediamine containing an unsubstituted amino group. The layer containing the dye image may be stripped from the emulsion layer and placed on a temporary or permanent support. A thin membrane may be attached to the colour-former layer before stripping. A thin layer of waterinsoluble water-permeable colloid, e.g. cellulose lower alkyl ether esters, regenerated cellulose, gelatin or agar-agar, may be interposed between the colour-former layer and the emulsion layer, and the stripping layer may be interposed between the colour-former and the colloid layer or between the latter and the emulsion layer. The colour-former layer or the colloid layer may contain a surface-active agent. The dye formed should be complementary in colour to the utilized sensitivity of the emulsion layer. In an element having two colour-former layers, the outer layer may become removable from the lower layer before the latter becomes removable from the support. Part or all the colour-processing may be effected before stripping. A two-colour element may have a transparent base having a light-sensitive silver salt layer on each side, and a separate colour-former layer contiguous with each silver salt layer. A stripping stratum or layer is interposed between the base and the sensitive layers or between the colour-former layers and the light-sensitive layers or both, and may form part of the colour-former layers. A three-colour element has a third sensitive layer separated from the nearest sensitive layer by at least two layers which may be the respective colour-former layers. Additional water-permeable layers or strata may separate the emulsion and/or colour-former layers. Colour-filtering means may be disposed in the colour-former layers or in intervening water-permeable colloid layers. The stripping layer may comprise water- or alkalisoluble cellulose derivatives, water-soluble starch derivatives, water- or alkali-soluble resins, and water-sensitive polymeric amino-nitrogen containing substances, insoluble in water and 5 per cent ammonium hydroxide, but soluble in 2 to 5 per cent aqueous acetic acid. Numerous examples of suitable substances are given. In Example 1, a subbed cellulose acetate support is coated with silver bromide emulsion, aqueous sodium cellulose glycollate, and a gelatin dispersion of 1:5- stearyl aminonaphthol. Similar materials contain as colour-formers 4:41-p-sulphobenzylidine-bis-mdodecyclamino-phenylmethylpyrazolene and diacetoacetaminobenzidide respectively. Three colour component negatives may be printed on to these three materials, and each colour developed. The three colour-former layers are then transferred in register to a permanent paper or film support. In Example 2, a cellulose acetate support is coated with a silver bromide emulsion, and then with an aqueous dispersion containing gelatin, 1:2-hydroxynaphthoyl-p-dodecyclanilide, and sodium stearate. Similar films are made using as colour-formers 1-(m-octadecoylaminophenyl)-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone and dibenzoylacetbenzidide respectively. Colour component negatives are printed on to the stripping films and after the films have been. colour developed, the colour-former layers are stripped off and registered on a permanent support. In Example 3, the colour-formers of Example 1 are replacad by m-octadecycloxyphenol, 4:4<SP>1</SP>-bis-(3<SP>11</SP>-methylpyraz =olonyl-1<SP>11</SP>)-biphenyloxide, and acetoacetaminophenylmorpholine, and the stripping layer is formed from an acid solution of deacetylated fixed, stripped, transferred to a temporary support, bleached in ammoniacal potassium ferricyanide, redeveloped in p-amino-N-diethylaniline, treated with Farmer's Reducer, and transferred to a permanent support. In Example 4, a support is coated on each side with a silver bromide emulsion containing Tartrazine, then with polyvinyl alcohol, and on one side with a gelatin dispersion of diacetoacet-tolidine sulphone, and on the other with a gelatin dispersion of 1-(m stearoylaminophenyl) - 3 - methyl - 5 - pyrazolone. The yellow and magenta image elements produced on processing may be combined with a blue-green image element produced on a separate stripping element. In Example 5, the diacetoacet-tolidinesulphone is replaced by a mixture of the condensation product of o-sulpho-benzaldehyde with diacetoacet-tolidine-sulphone and 1-(m-stearoylaminophenyl)-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone, and the other colour-former is replaced by 1:2-hydroxynaphthoyl-p-lauryl-anilide. The front element of a bi-pack is printed on to the first side and the rear element on to the second. After colour development, the colour-former layers are stripped and registered on a permanent support. Thin membranes of collodion or synthetic resins may be pressed on to the colour-former layers before stripping. Re-exposure to light may be avoided by use of the dye-forming solutions of Specification 547,847. Specifications 522,161, 537,232 and 551,117 also are referred to. The Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 comprises also (a) baryta-coated paper having successive layers of deacetylated chitin, nitrocellulose, gelatin, silver halide emulsion, and a gelatin dispersion of a colour-former, the film being stripped after colour development, bleaching, and fixing and transferred to a permanent support; (b) paper coated with polyvinyl alcohol, cellulose nitrate, cellulose nitrate substratum, silver iodobromide emulsion, and a gelatin dispersion of 1:2-hydroxynaphahoyl-p-dodecylanilide (clear gelatin may be interposed between the emulsion and colour-former layers ; (c) cellulose nitrate coated with gelatin, piperidylmethylzein, cellulose nitrate (from solution containing glycerol, urea, and dibutyl phthalate), gelatin, silver halide emulsion, and a gelatin dispersion of the salicyladehyde-phthalaldehydic acid acetal of polyvinyl acetal ; (d) subbed cellulose nitrate coated with cellulose nitrate, red-sensitive silver bromide emulsion, gelatin containing resorcinol octadecyl ether, piperidylmethylzein, ethyl cellulose, green-sensitive emulsion, gelatin containing 1 - (m - stearoylaminophenyl) - 3-methyl-5-pyrazolone, gelatin-dextrin alkali-stripping layer, ethyl cellulose, a blue-sensitive emulsion layer containing Tartrazine, and gelatin containing benzoylacetaminophenylmorpholine. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted.