Patents Represented by Attorney J. L. Tucker
  • Patent number: 4803157
    Abstract: Hydrolyzable substrates for acid and alkaline phosphatases comprise blocked dye moieties which, when cleaved from the substrate during hydrolysis, provide fluorescent dyes having maximum absorptions above about 530 nm and maximum fluorescent emissions at least about 580 nm. The dyes are blocked prior to hydrolysis with a phosphono or thioxophosphono group or a salt thereof. These substrates can be used in analytical determinations of acid or alkaline phosphatase, or in competitive binding reactions to determine immunologically reactive substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael W. Sundberg, Bruce Babb, Gregory McClune
  • Patent number: 4376800
    Abstract: An optical lens having an absorbance of less than about 0.1 for visible radiation of a wavelength in the range of from about 400 to about 600 nanometers is prepared from a crosslinkable acrylic composition. The composition consists essentially of an acrylic monomer and an acrylated urethane oligomer and exhibits a shrinkage upon curing of less than about 0.4%. The lens is prepared by introducing the crosslinkable composition into a lens-forming means and curing it until it is substantially crosslinked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1983
    Inventors: Chen-i Lu, Edward D. Morrison
  • Patent number: 4357409
    Abstract: Adhesive compositions are disclosed which are particularly useful as mask adhesives in instant photographic products. These adhesives provide high strength permanent bonds while greatly improving border quality around image areas after imagewise exposure and development. In addition, they can be heat sealed at relatively low sealing temperatures. These adhesive compositions comprise a polymeric acidic component having at least 3 milliequivalents of acid per gram of component, and a substantially immobile, blocked photographic development restrainer or a substantially immobile, blocked photographic developer. The polymeric acidic component comprises certain sulfo-containing polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Wayne A. Bowman
  • Patent number: 4357408
    Abstract: Adhesive compositions are disclosed which are particularly useful as mask adhesives in instant photographic products. These adhesives provide high strength permanent bonds while greatly improving border quality around image areas after imagewise exposure and development. These adhesive compositions comprise a polymeric acidic component having at least 3 milliequivalents of acid per gram of polymer, and a substantially immobile, blocked photographic development restrainer or a substantially immobile, blocked competing photographic developer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Robert R. Rose, Carl H. Eldredge
  • Patent number: 4346231
    Abstract: Compounds useful in making crosslinkable polymers having the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl; R.sup.1 is cyano or ##STR2## wherein R.sup.2 is alkyl; Z is --X--R.sup.3 --X-- or ##STR3## wherein each --X-- is --O-- or --NR.sup.4 --, provided at least one --X-- is --NR.sup.4 -- wherein R.sup.4 is hydrogen or alkyl, R.sup.3 is divalent hydrocarbon and D.sub.1 and D.sub.2 together are the carbon atoms necessary to complete a 5 to 7 membered ring. These compounds can be homopolymerized or copolymerized with each other or with other polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers to give crosslinkable polymers. Such polymers can be purified by conventional purification techniques such as dialysis, diafiltration, ultrafiltration without losing their capability of crosslinking. The resulting purified polymers are particularly useful in photographic materials as gelatin extenders, binders or polymeric color couplers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1982
    Inventors: Ignazio S. Ponticello, Kenneth R. Hollister, Richard C. Tuites
  • Patent number: 4259422
    Abstract: A transparency that is used to project an image onto a viewing surface such as a screen is prepared by an electrographic copying process. An element used in this process comprises a transparent support that is coated with an image-receiving hydrophilic colloid layer that receives an image pattern of fusible toner particles. The image pattern of toner particles is fused to the hydrophilic colloid layer by contacting the toned image-bearing layer with a heated fuser surface such as a fuser roll. The fuser surface is coated with a release liquid which inhibits offsetting of the toner particles onto the fuser surface.Transparencies prepared by this process exhibit good resistance to abrasion in toned areas while also displaying substantially no release liquid in non-toned areas upon projection viewing. Furthermore, toned areas of such transparencies can be selectively removed by light rubbing with a moist cloth or tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Bruce W. Davidson, Frederick A. Pomeroy, M. Akram Sandhu
  • Patent number: 4250237
    Abstract: High speed organic photoconductors are produced by crystallizing p-terphenyl from solution in a solvent having defined solubility parameter limits. Heterogeneous photoconductive insulating compositions comprising a dispersion of these p-terphenyls in an electrically insulating binder can be applied to an electrically conducting support to provide an electrophotographic element with high photoconductive speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1981
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Richard S. Vickers
  • Patent number: 4215195
    Abstract: Compounds useful in making crosslinkable polymers having the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl; R.sup.1 is cyano or ##STR2## wherein R.sup.2 is alkyl; Z is --X--R.sup.3 --X-- or ##STR3## wherein each --X-- is --O-- or --NR.sup.4 --, provided at least one --X-- is --NR.sup.4 -- wherein R.sup.4 is hydrogen or alkyl, R.sup.3 is divalent hydrocarbon and D.sub.1 and D.sub.2 together are the carbon atoms necessary to complete a 5 to 7 membered ring. These compounds can be homopolymerized or copolymerized with each other or with polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers to give crosslinkable polymers. Such polymers can be purified by conventional purification techniques such as dialysis, diafiltration, ultrafiltration without losing their capability of crosslinking. The resulting purified polymers are particularly useful in photographic materials as gelatin extenders, binders or polymeric color couplers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ignazio S. Ponticello, Kenneth R. Hollister, Richard C. Tuites