Patents by Inventor Robert N. Gourley

Robert N. Gourley has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5981158
    Abstract: A photographic element comprises a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion and at least one acylacetanilide or malonanilide yellow dye-forming DIR coupler of structure I or structure II, below ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Jerrold N. Poslusny, James H. Reynolds, Bernard A. Clark, Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4994576
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for reducing a nitro group substituent on an aromatic compound to an amino group and is characterized by treatment of the compound in the presence of iron or zinc and a halogen-containing aliphatic carboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul R. Buckland, Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4593087
    Abstract: Disclosed are azo dyes containing diazonium moieties from aminothiazoles, aminoisothiazoles, or aminothiadiazoles (1,2,4- or 1,3,4-), and certain coupler moieties from aniline, tetrahydroquinoline, and benzomorpholine type compounds, wherein the diazonium moieties have at least one cinnamoyl group, and wherein a wide variety of groups, e.g., one or more water-solubilizing substituents such as sulfonic acid groups or their metal or amine salts may be present in the dye molecule. These dyes are useful for dyeing materials selected from polyamide, cellulose ester, polyester, wool and other natural and synthetic fibers and generally exhibit improvements in dyeability and fastness properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4593088
    Abstract: Disclosed are new disperse azo dyes prepared from 2-amino-cinnamoylthiophene compounds. These dyes give bright blue shades, for example, on polyester, cellulose acetate and other synthetic fibers and exhibit improvements in one or more of such properties as bathochromic shift, fastness to light, sublimation, chlorine, heat, ozone, gas, perspiration, crock, and wash, build, pH stability, bloom resistance, depth of shade, leveling, strike rate, migration, and the like. The dyes have the general formula: ##STR1## wherein each R is a substituent selected for example from alkyl, substituted alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, halogen, nitro, alkoxycarbonyl, alkanoyloxy, alkanoyl, cyano, alkylamino, and dialkylamino, R.sup.14 is hydrogen or alkyl, C.sup.1 represents an aniline, tetrahydroquinoline or benzomorpholine coupling component which may be extensively substituted, and each of R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 is hydrogen or a substituent such as acyl, acylamido, alkyl, halogen, and cyano.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1986
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4554348
    Abstract: Disclosed are new acid azo dyes prepared from 2-amino-cinnamoylthiophene compounds. These dyes give bright red to blue shades, for example, on polyester, cellulose acetate, wool and particularly polyamide fibers and exhibit improvements in one or more of such properties as bathochromic shift, fastness to light, sublimation, chlorine, heat, ozone, gas, perspiration, crock, and wash, build, pH stability, bloom resistance, depth of shade, leveling, strike rate, migration, and the like. The dyes have the general formula ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.14 is H or alkyl; R is a substituent selected, for example, from alkyl, substituted alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, halogen, nitro, alkoxycarbonyl, alkanoyloxy, alkanoyl, cyano, alkylamino, and dialkylamino; C.sup.1 represents an aniline, tetrahydroquinoline or benzomorpholine coupling component which may be extensively substituted; each of R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 is selected from H, alkyl, alkoxy, acyl, halogen, and the like; and at least one of the water solubilizing groups, --SO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4552952
    Abstract: This invention relates to azo dyes which may be unsubstituted or substituted with a variety of groups known to the dye art, and containing diazonium moieties from 2-aminobenzothiazole or 2-aminobenzisothiazole type compounds, and certain coupler moieties from aniline, tetrahydroquinoline, or benzomorpholine compounds, wherein the diazonium moieties have one or two cinnamoyl substituents, and wherein one or more water-solubilizing groups such as a sulfonic acid group or its metal or amine salt may be present as a substituent in the dye molecule for acid dyeing. These dyes are particularly useful in dyeing one or more of polyamide cellulose acetate polyester, wool and other fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4552951
    Abstract: This invention relates to azo dyes which may be unsubstituted or substituted with a variety of groups known to the dye art, and containing a diazonium moieties from an aniline type compound and certain coupler moieties from aniline, tetrahydroquinoline, or benzomorpholine compounds, wherein the diazonium moiety has one or two cinnamoyl substituents, and wherein one or more water-solubilizing groups such as a sulfonic acid group or its metal or amine salt may be present as a substituent in the dye molecule for acid dyeing. These dyes are particularly useful in dyeing one or more of polyamide cellulose acetate polyester, wool and other fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1985
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4472169
    Abstract: Disclosed are mixtures of dyes of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is alkyl of 1-4 carbons; R.sup.1 is H or alkyl of 1-4 carbons; R.sup.2 is alkyl of 1-7 carbons, or ethoxyethoxyethyl; R.sup.3 is H or methoxy; and R.sup.4 is H, methyl, or --NHCOCH.sub.3. These mixtures exhibit improved properties such as reduced energy of application, for example, in the dyeing of polyester and cellulose diacetate or triacetate fibers and their blends with other synthetic and natural fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Leslie Shuttleworth, Michael H. Kearns, Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4435320
    Abstract: Disclosed are new azo dyes from 2-amino-3,5-bisfluorosulphonyl thiophene which may be further substituted, and certain aniline, tetrahydroquinoline and benzomorpholine couplers. These dyes produce bright blue shades on hydrophobic fibres including polyesters, polyamides and cellulose esters, both by dyeing and heat transfer printing, and show improvements in one or more properties of dyeability, low energy of application, fastness to light, gas and wash, and heat stability, and have the general formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, alkyl or alkyl substituted with aryl or cycloalkyl; and C' represents an aniline, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline, or benzomorpholine disperse dye coupling component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert N. Gourley
  • Patent number: 4283332
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel azo dyes of the structureX--N.dbd.N--C'wherein X represents the diazonium component comprising phenyl or a heterocyclic group commonly used in azo dyes and which is substituted by one or more fluorinated carboxylic or sulphonic ester groups. Additionally, X may be substituted by any of the groups commonly used in diazonium components such as nitro, cyano, halogen and the like. C' represents an aniline, tetrahydroquinoline or benzomorpholine coupler of the type commonly used in azo dyes. The dyes can be used in both the dyeing and heat transfer printing of textiles, are surprisingly bathochromic in shade, exhibit a good balance of properties such as light, crock, wash, and gas fastness, leveling, pH stability, and dyeability, and have unexpected thermal and hydrolytic stability as compared for example, to the hydrogen analogues. The dyes have particular utility on polyester fibers especially as regards lightfastness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Robert N. Gourley