Abstract: A dry image forming material with an increased sensitivity, characterized by including a) an organic silver salt oxidizing agent, b) a reducing agent and c) a compound or a composition which comprises a halogen component and an organic component containing an element except for sulfur belonging to the IV group, V group or VI group of the periodic table and having an atomic number of 14 or more, and is adapted, by heating, to interact with the silver ion of a) to form a photosensitive interaction product. The dry image forming material according to this invention is of the type of post-activation and can be prepared, stored and handled under normal lighting conditions. The post-activation type dry image forming material according to this invention can be spectrally sensitized by incorporation of a sensitizing dye.

Abstract: A photographic developing agent represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein one of X and Y is a group capable of inhibiting development on release immediately after the developing agent is oxidized at the step of development, and the other of X and Y is an --NH--SO.sub.2 --Z group (wherein Z is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group); A is a hydrogen atom or a group hydrolyzable under alkaline conditions; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an --S--Z' group (wherein Z' is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group), an --NH--SO.sub.2 --Z" group (wherein Z" is an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group), an acylamido group, an amino group, a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, or an acyloxy group; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.

Abstract: Photothermographic materials may be stabilized by inclusion of compounds having terminal 1,1,1-tri bromoethoxy or 1,1,1-di bromochloroethoxy type groups.

Abstract: A process of forming on a copying material from an original having respective minimum and maximum density values D.sub.min and D.sub.max a copy having respective minimum and maximum density values P and Q, different from D.sub.min and D.sub.max, comprising the steps of: forming first and second non-superimposed test wedge images by exposing first and second specimens of the copying material to light of respective first and second colors, the exposure of the first and second specimens being such that the respective average exposure times are T.sub.B and T.sub.G, with the exposure to light varying across each specimen according to a preselected relationship, determining from the first test wedge image the density values D.sub.1 and D.sub.3 which an original must have to produce upon the copying material the respective density values P and Q if the copying of such original onto the copying material is performed with light of the first color for an exposure time T.sub.

Abstract: A thermally developable light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon or therein at least one layer containing at least (a) an organic silver salt, (b) a light-sensitive silver halide or a component capable of forming a light-sensitive silver halide, and (c) a reducing agent, which contains (d) a palladium-containing compound in at least one layer provided on or in the support.

Abstract: Diffusion transfer photographic products are disclosed which comprise a support carrying at least a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a dye image-forming material and a layer comprising polymeric derivatives of tetrazole-5-thiols. Associated with this photographic product is a multivalent metal cation which diffuses to the layer comprising the polymeric derivatives of tetrazole-5-thiols to increase the permeability of said tetrazole-5-thiol containing layer to the dye image-forming material.

Abstract: A method of obtaining intensified images from silver images on developed photographic films and plates comprises the steps of converting silver of the developed film or plate to a radioactive compound by treatment with an aqueous alkaline solution of an organo-S35 compound; placing the treated film or plate in direct contact with a receiver film which is then exposed by radiation from the activated film; and developing and fixing the resulting intensified image on the receiver film.

Abstract: A process for forming a dye image on a receiving element by diffusion transfer from a photosensitive element is disclosed wherein the exposed photosensitive element is processed with an alkaline solution in the presence of a particular dye developer having at least one azo radical.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are heat-activatable adhesive compositions comprising a water-soluble condensation polymer which is characterized by having a glycol component comprising one or more diols, preferably one of which is 1,4-bis(2-hydroxy-ethoxy)cyclohexane; and an acid component comprising greater than 15 and up to about 35 mole percent of at least one diacid or diester monomer having an iminodisulfonyl salt moiety, and from about 65 to about 85 mole percent of one or more other diacids or diesters. These adhesives are further characterized as having high bonding strengths at temperatures above 50.degree. C. They have been found useful in a variety of photographic materials, and particularly in image transfer film units.

Abstract: A photographic coupler capable of releasing a development inhibitor upon reaction with an oxidation product of a color developing agent and represented by the following general formula (I) or (II) ##STR1## wherein A represents a coupler residue; Z represents a sulfur atom, a selenium atom or an oxygen atom; R.sup.1 represents an aliphatic group; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an alkoxy group, a hydroxy group, or an aromatic group, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 can combine and represent the atoms necessary to form a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring, ##STR2## wherein A represents a coupler residue; R.sup.4 represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group; and R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aromatic group; and silver halide photographic elements containing these photographic couplers.

Abstract: A process is disclosed of forming a reversal dye image. This is accomplished by developing an imagewise exposed photographic element with a black-and-white developer and poisoning the developed silver as a redox amplification catalyst for a peroxide oxodizing agent. The undeveloped silver is then rendered developable to form a silver catalyst image pattern. This latter silver image pattern is then used to catalyze the redox reaction of a peroxide oxidizing agent and a dye-image-generating reducing agent, such as a color-developing agent, or a redox dye-releaser.

Abstract: Photoconductive compositions containing aromatic sulfonyl fluorides are novel compositions which are useful in electrophotographic processes, such as xerography. E.g., an electrostatic copying paper is obtained by coating an electroconductive base paper with a composition comprising poly(N-vinylcarbazole) and 4,4'-biphenyldisulfonyl fluoride.

Abstract: My invention is directed to a process of forming dye images. I accomplish this by bleaching a silver image at least in part with a cobalt bleaching agent to form within the silver image pattern an immobile cobalt reaction product. The concurrent presence of the immobile cobalt reaction product, a peroxide oxidizing agent and a dye-image-generating reducing agent within the silver image pattern allows a dye image to be formed which corresponds to the silver image pattern.

Abstract: A dry system for forming and transferring images is provided. The system comprises a photoactive component comprising a tacky photohardenable layer on a selected carrier sheet and a transfer component comprising a frangible color layer on a selected carrier sheet. The two components are disposed with their photohardenable and color layers in air-free contact with one another and then subjected to irradiation with actinic radiation in accordance with a selected image pattern so as to cause selected portions of the photohardenable layer to harden and fuse to confronting portions of the color layer. Then the two components are separated whereby the fused portions of the color layer are separated from its carrier sheet and transferred to the photoactive component. Thereafter the color layer remaining on the transferable component is coated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive.

Abstract: Constant boiling binary admixtures are formed by 1,2-dichloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane with trichlorofluoromethane, with diethyl ether, and with dichloromethane. A constant boiling ternary admixture is formed by 1,2-dichloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane, diethyl ether, and 1,2-dibromo-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane.

Abstract: A radiation polymerizable protective coating composition or paint, coated articles bearing such a protective coating and processes for preparing such articles. The radiation polymerizable paint, on a non-polymerizable solvent, pigment, initiator and particulate filler-free basis consists essentially of a binder solution of: (1) an alpha-beta olefinically unsaturated organic resin containing between about 0.5 and about 5 units of olefinic unsaturation per 1,000 units of molecular weight; (2) a compound polymerizable with said resin upon exposure to ionizing radiation; and (3) between about 0.05 and about 1.0 parts per 100 parts of the total of said alpha-beta olefinically unsaturated resin and said compound polymerizable therewith of a mono- or diester of phosphoric acid bearing one or more sites of vinyl unsaturation. The composition exhibits excellent quality and good adhesion to a variety of substrates, in particular metals, including vapor deposited metals.

Abstract: A phosphate coating solution for forming coatings on a metal surface is contacted with an anion-exchanger loaded or contacted with nitrite ions, whereby the nitrate ions present in the coating solution are replaced by the nitrite ions. This process permits continued operation of a phosphate coating process without replenishing a nitrite solution. This process also allows no accumulation of alkali metal and/or ammonium ions unavailable for the phosphate coating and provides uniform coatings with satisfactory coating properties on the metal surface.

Abstract: A metal oxide vapor, such as tungsten oxide, is reacted with a ceramic material, such as aluminum oxide, at a temperature in the range of from about 1300.degree.C to about 1400.degree.C. The metal oxide vapors diffuse into the ceramic material during the reaction. The ceramic material, which now includes tungsten oxide diffused therein, is then subjected to a reducing atmosphere so as to form a cermet region in the ceramic material.

Abstract: An electrostatic precipitator for cleaning a gas flowing therethrough comprising a shell having a gas inlet and outlet port and defining a gas chamber therein. Sets of spaced collector electrodes are suspended within the shell, the collector electrodes defining gas passages therebetween. Discharge electrodes are suspended within the gas passages for ionizing particles in the gas for collection by the collector electrodes. Hoppers are suspended below the collector electrodes for collecting the particles dislodged from the collector electrodes, each of the hoppers being suspended beneath at least two of the sets of collector electrodes.

Abstract: Liquid compositions containing an amine oxide, an occlusive emollient, and a pH controlling agent exhibit enhanced adsorption of the emollient material on keratinous substrates such as skin when employed as a detergent composition at an acid pH.