Patents Represented by Attorney Stanley H. Mervis
  • Patent number: 4057425
    Abstract: This application is concerned with dye developer diffusion transfer color processes and discloses the incorporation of certain 2-substituted benzimidazoles, e.g., 2-phenyl-benzimidazole, in a dye developer photosensitive element to provide improved temperature latitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald F. Lambert, Howard G. Rogers
  • Patent number: 4047804
    Abstract: Transparent elements useful as supports for photographic image-carrying and/or image-recording layers are provided comprising a polymeric film base having an anti-reflection coating on one surface. Image-carrying and/or image-recording layers may be coated on the opposed surface. Such transparent supports are particularly useful in photographic products wherein the final image is formed by multicolor diffusion transfer processes using dye developers or other image dye-providing materials. In the preferred embodiments, the photographic image is an integral negative-positive reflection print. Where photoexposure is effected through a transparent support, e.g., the transparent support through which the final image is viewed, provision of an anti-reflection coating on said support and effecting photo-exposure therethrough will permit more effective recording of light passing through the camera lens.The polymeric film base of the transparent element has an index of refraction of at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Robert K. Stephens
  • Patent number: 4046457
    Abstract: Transparent elements useful as supports for photographic image-carrying and/or image-recording layers are provided comprising a polymeric film base having an anti-reflection coating on one surface. Image-carrying and/or image-recording layers may be coated on the opposed surface. Such transparent supports are particularly useful in photographic products wherein the final image is formed by multicolor diffusion transfer processes using dye developers or other image dye-providing materials. In the preferred embodiments, the photographic image is an integral negative-positive reflection print. Where photoexposure is effected through a transparent support, e.g., the transparent support through which the final image is viewed, provision of an anti-reflection coating on said support and effecting photoexposure therethrough will permit more effective recording of light passing through the camera lens.The polymeric film base of the transparent element has an index of refraction of at least 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Edwin H. Land, Stanley M. Bloom, Howard G. Rogers
  • Patent number: 4042760
    Abstract: A planar primary battery particularly suited for a photographic application characterized in exhibiting high current drain capacities and improved manufacturability. The battery structure incorporates at least one electrode present in aqueous slurry form as a particulate dispersion of active material and an inorganic particulate additive in combination with electrolyte. This slurry combination, functioning in the absence of dispersing or binding agents present in the form of hydrophilic polymers and the like, provides for batteries exhibiting enhanced performance characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin H. Land
  • Patent number: 4040830
    Abstract: Integral negative-positive diffusion transfer reflection prints are provided with a non-planar, e.g., lenticular, surface through which the transfer image is viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Howard G. Rogers
  • Patent number: 4019251
    Abstract: A method for constructing flat batteries having improved peripheral seals. These batteries are characterized in incorporating polymeric intercell connectors, outer collector assemblies including an externally disposed sheet terminal-current collector and sheet separator components associated with thermal sealing material, the peripheries of the seal material extending outwardly from the corresponding peripheries of the current collectors and intercell connectors. To effect a seal of improved integrity as well as enlarged size, a cover sheet of material dimensionally stable at temperatures whereat the seal material and the polymeric connectors are dimensionally unstable is placed over the current collector and seal portions with which a thermal sealing bar would otherwise come in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas P. McCole
  • Patent number: 4007472
    Abstract: A planar primary battery particularly suited for photographic applications characterized in exhibiting high current drain capacity. The battery structure includes positive active components including two cathode strata, one cathode stratum being a slurry of a particulate cathode active material in aqueous electrolyte, the other cathode stratum comprising a particulate dispersion of dry cathode active particles in a binder matrix bonded to the surface of a polymeric current collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin H. Land
  • Patent number: 4003744
    Abstract: The present invention relates to photography and, more particularly, to diffusion transfer process photographic film units which comprise a photosensitive element adapted to provide, by diffusion transfer photographic processing, selective dye image recordation of incident actinic radiation as a function of the point-to-point degree of photosensitive element exposure, which film unit includes a plurality of photosensitive units each exhibiting a predetermined gamma of substantially the same value and within a range of 1.1 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Peter O. Kliem
  • Patent number: 3990895
    Abstract: Color photographic products and processes are disclosed which provide a silver image in registration with a light-transmitting screen composed of minute optical elements, such as an additive color screen. The silver image is present in the developed silver halide emulsion layer which is maintained in registered relationship with said screen on a transparent support. Where the silver halide emulsion is negative-working, the silver image is a negative of the photographed subject, and the thus-obtained additive color negative image may be used to form full color positive images by printing onto subtractive color print material.The undeveloped silver halide may be allowed to remain in the developed silver halide emulsion layer, or all or a portion thereof may be removed from the developed silver halide emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1976
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin H. Land
  • Patent number: 3979583
    Abstract: Illumination from a photoflash lamp is limited to radiation useful for photographic exposure by providing the photoflash lamp with an infrared absorbing filter possessing photographically desirable transmission properties in the visible region of the spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: John J. McCan
  • Patent number: 3976486
    Abstract: Multicolor diffusion transfer processes and products for use in performing such processes are disclosed employing dye developers and red-, green- and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsions, at least two of said silver halide emulsions being predominantly homogeneous substituted-halide silver halide emulsions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1973
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1976
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Edwin H. Land