Abstract: Container for active purifying agent for the purification of liquids, in particular photographic processing baths, comprising a container bottom above which is a space (2) for containing active purifying substance, a closure mechanism (5), an inlet tube (6) and a discharge tube (7) wherein a porous, compressible mass (4) is arranged between the space (2) for active purifying substance and the closure device (5).

Abstract: A photographic material for the production of continuous tone silver images by the diffusion transfer reversal process using at least two independently prepared silver halide emulsions of different photo-sensitivity and having a silver halide composition as defined in the description, either in admixture in a single supported emulsion layer or coated on the same support as separate superposed emulsion layers.

Abstract: Photographic silver complex diffusion transfer reversal process wherein the photographic material is spectrally sensitized with a dye corresponding to the general formula of the description, wherein said dye provides to the silver halide emulsion layer a spectral sensitivity mainly in the range of 400 to 500 nm and does not extends its spectral sensitivity substantially beyond 500 nm, and wherein the handling (exposure, development and diffusion transfer) of the photographic material during said steps is effected in yellow safelight corresponding to the light transmitted by a specified cut-off filter without causing fog.

Abstract: Anion exchangers containing OH groups as exchange active groups are suitable for the regeneration of photographic developers.

Abstract: What is claimed is a magnetic storage medium in which the polyurethane binder system forms a three-dimensional network independently of reactive low molecular weight substances present on the magnetic pigment or in the dispersion and the production of such a storage medium. The binder in the colored magnetic layer consists of a reaction product of polyisocyanates having an average functionality of from 2.1 to 4 (A) with predominantly difunctional aromatic amino-terminated polyurethanes having an average molecular weight of at least 10,000 (B) and optionally one or more hydroxyl group-containing polyesters having an OH number of from 100 to 450 (C), and/or predominantly difunctional aromatic polyamines having a molecular weight of from 100 to 400 (D) the ratio of isocyanate groups present in (A) to the isocyanate reactive groups present in (B), (C) and (D) being from 0.3:1 to 20:1, preferably from 0.8:1 to 20:1.

Abstract: A device for producing photographic pictures from X-ray or UV images projected on an image screen, comprises a film-supporting platform having a slot for introducing a film into the platform and through which the film is removed from the platform. The device further includes a pair of film-transporting rollers positioned outside of the slot and at a distance therefrom. The platform also has at its lower side recesses into which engaging members are pivoted to support a lower edge of each film on the platform and lift the film when the latter is to be removed from the platform.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for melting solidified gel masses, in particular of photographic emulsions, which are introduced as solid pieces of any size or shape into a melting container having a perforated bottom and equipped with a tempering device, the gel mass when melted flowing through the openings in the bottom into a receiver underneath it, and being arranged and designed to prevent excessive exposure of the gel mass to heat. This is achieved by melting the layer of gel mass immediately above the bottom of the melting container with microwaves while the layers of gel mass situated above the aforesaid layer remain substantially uninfluenced by the radiation of microwaves.

Abstract: Photographic elements comprising at least one protective hydrophilic colloid layer comprising at least one urethane of polyethylene oxide compounds as antistatic agent in the form of dispersed droplets having an average diameter ranging from 1500 to 12000 nm and method of covering such photographic elements with at least one such protective hydrophilic colloid layer obtained by the steps of dissolving such urethane in a water-immiscible solvent medium, emulsifying the resulting solution in aqueous hydrophilic colloid, removing said water-immiscible solvent medium by evaporation to form the dispersed droplets in the aqueous hydrophilic colloid, and coating the latter as such or after having been mixed with additional hydrophilic colloid to form the protective hydrophilic colloid layer.

Abstract: A pair of transport rollers for transporting therebetween a tape or sheet material, such as film, for example in a wet processing device, in which one roller is cylindrical and another roller includes two outwardly converging conical end portions and a cylindrical intermediate portion, whereby two or more films can be transported by the roller pair simultaneously.

Abstract: Receivers with a detachable seal comprising a porous compressive mass (4) substantially covering the whole base of the receiver are suitable for purifying liquids, particularly photographic processing baths.

Abstract: New block copolymers containing(a) a block of from 5 to 100 parts by weight polymerized, basic, nitrogen-containing aromatic vinyl compounds and from 0 to 95 parts by weight polymerized, nitrogen-free aromatic vinyl compounds and(b) a block of polymerized C.sub.4 -C.sub.6 dienes containing 25 to 95% lateral double bonds which are completely or partly reacted with alkylmercaptans.are suitable for improved suspension developers.

Abstract: A liquid electrophoretic developer composition for developing electrostatic latent images, wherein pigment particles for obtaining improved dispersion stability in association with at least two polymers are dispersed in an electrically insulating non-polar carrier liquid having a volume resistivity of at least 10.sup.9 ohm.cm and a dielectric constant less than 3, characterized in that the composition comprises at least one polymer (hereafter called "polymer A") which forms a coating on the pigment particles and has a poor solubility in said liquid as determined by Test A herein described, and at least one polymer (hereafter called "polymer B") being chemically linked to the pre-coated polymer A, said polymer B having a good solubility in said liquid as determined by Test B herein described.

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Abstract: A radiation-sensitive semiconductor device, e.g., a line imager, wherein a plurality of closely spaced photodiodes (10) are electrically insulated from each other by depletion regions. The device is provided with storage means (18, 19) for collecting into packets the minority charges generated in each diode during a certain integration time and with transfer means (12, 13) for transferring the distinct charge carrier packets to read out means (15), whereby improved performance with respect to blooming between adjacent diodes is obtained.

Abstract: Compounds having a structure corresponding to the following formula. ##STR1## wherein G represents OH or a precursor group which is unstable to alkali,X represents a substituent which cannot be split off,Y represents --O--alkyl, --SO.sub.2 --NR.sup.1 --R.sup.2, --CO--NR.sup.1 --R.sup.2, --NR.sup.1 --CO--R.sup.3, or --NR.sup.1 --SO.sub.2 --R.sup.3,R.sup.1 represents H or alkyl,R.sup.2 represents alkyl, aralkyl or aryl,R.sup.3 represents alkoxy, aroxy, alkylamino, arylamino or R.sup.2,Z represents H, alkyl, alkoxy, halogen or acylamino andn represents 1 or 2are suitable for improving the stability to light of image dyes produced from photographic couplers, in particular yellow couplers.

Abstract: An arrangement for determining two or more superimposed film sheets, particularly X-ray film sheets, in a transport after their withdrawal from the film sheet stack, has a light barrier with a light source at one side of the transport path and a photoreceiver at the other side thereof, and an evaluating circuit connected with the photoreceiver for producing a signal corresponding to the presence of two or more sheets and including a computer supplied with a value of the density of a first or test sheet introduced into the light barrier between the light source and the photoreceiver, so that the supplied value serves as a reference signal for measuring the next film sheet.

Abstract: A method of producing a video picture of an image comprises the steps of lighting the image at a light level equal to about a predetermined small fraction of the light level necessary to produce picture-element signals of an amplitude sufficient to process. The thus lighted image is then scanned and electrooptically reduced to a succession of sets of analog picture-element signals a predetermined number N of times, the number N being equal to the inverse of the predetermined small fraction. Thus for each portion of the image there is a respective picture-element signal in each succession. The signals of each image portion are then projected onto the same portion of a light-sensitive medium to form a picture of the image thereon. This medium is capable of adding each of the signals of each set to the signals of the other sets corresponding to the same image portion.

Abstract: A magnetic tape cassette, consisting of opaque plastics material, contains, according to the invention, a display window with a scale impressed therein, consisting of transparent plastics material as well as one or more fluorescent plastics materials finely-divided therein, the ratio between the light emission surface area and the light absorption surface area of the display window being from 1:10 to 1:2000.

Abstract: An original to be reproduced is scanned line-by-line, and a scanning signal is generated for each linear, scanned region. The scanning signals represent the densities of the respective regions. A portion of each scanning signal is filtered to remove the higher frequencies. The filtered signal is differentiated to yield first density gradients, and the extreme positive and negative values of the first density gradients are determined for each region. Another portion of each scanning signal is differentiated without first removing the higher frequencies thereby yielding second density gradients. The extreme positive and negative values of the second density gradients are likewise determined for each region. A ratio of the extreme positive second density gradient to the extreme positive first density gradient is formed for each region, as is a ratio of the magnitude of the extreme negative second density gradient to the magnitude of the extreme negative first density gradient.

Abstract: A photographic copier has a first platform for supporting an original to be copied, and a second platform for supporting copy paper. A focusing system is disposed between the platforms and includes a plate which can be mounted at different distances from the platforms. The plate has a central opening which removably receives a tubular holder. The holder is supported in the opening by a ring which permits the position of the holder relative to the plate to be adjusted. Two lenses are removably mounted in the holder and serve to project an image of the original onto the copy paper. Different magnifications can be achieved in that the copier comes equipped with a variety of holders having different lengths, and a few selected lenses having different optical characteristics. The magnification is changed by simply interchanging holders and/or lenses, and adjusting the position of a holder to be used relative to the plate.