Abstract: The difficulties in the casting process of photographic gelatin containing layers caused by increases in the viscosity of the casting solution due to the premature cross-linking of gelatin can be prevented if a compound containing at least one vinyl sulfone group and at least one sulfonyl ethyl sulfate group in the form of their salts is incorporated in the casting composition of the gelatin-containing layer(s) or in the gelatin-containing layer(s) applied to the layer support.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a machine for accurately cutting documents from a web of transparent material carrying one or more opaque documents, which machine comprises a punch-type cutter which is mounted for pivotal and lateral movement and capable of automatic positioning for accurately cutting a well-defined portion of the web so as to provide series of individual documents of predetermined size. The machine is provided with a first detector for detecting the arrival of an opaque document on the web at the cutting zone, a control responsive to the detector for arresting the movement of the web, other detectors for determining the relative lateral and angular position of the document on the web with respect to the cutter and a control responsive to the other detectors for displacing the cuttering laterally and angularly to bring the same into a predetermined position with respect to the document.

Abstract: An automatic feeder for a photographic copying machine includes a housing and a plate for supporting a stack of originals which are consecutively conveyed towards a transparent exposure plate positioned on the copying machine. The feeder is provided with adjustable tappet rollers mounted against the exposure plate to receive a front edge of an original moved along the exposure plate, without damaging the front edge. The plate for supporting the stack of originals includes adjustable stops for adjusting the plate to differing formats of the originals being processed. An adjusting lever connected to the adjustable stops for adjusting the latter is operatively connected to an adjustment device for adjusting the position of tappet rollers along the exposure plate. Pivotable transport rollers are provided to hold the original against the exposure plate. The housing of the feeder is pivotable relative to the housing of the copying machine between an open and closed position.

Abstract: Quaternary sulfoalkyl or sulfoalkenyl salts of tertiary amine bases are prepared by reacting the tertiary amine bases at elevated temperatures with a hydroxy alkane sulfonic acid or a hydroxyalkene sulphonic acid.

Abstract: Apparatus for the exposure and development of photographic images in a photographic monosheet material having two frame members. The first frame member holds the monosheet with the photosensitive side sealed against light and moisture and the opposite side facing an opening. The second frame member is hinged on the first member. Means are provided for sealing the second member in a closed position on said first member and means are provided for applying a processing liquid to the monosheet material while the frame members are closed together.

Abstract: A radiographic film package for non-destructive testing, comprising a radiographic film sheet, an intensifying screen with a layer of lead bonded to a paper foil, and a vacuum heat-sealed wrapper with a layer of aluminium and a heat-sealable easy-peelable thermoplastic layer.

Abstract: Photographic silver halide material containing a ballasted electron-donor precursor compound yielding by alkaline hydrolysis an electron-donor compound (ED-compound) capable (1) of donating electrons to an oxidized electron-accepting silver halide developing agent e.g. for scavenging it, said electron-donor precursor compound corresponding to the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein: R represents hydrogen or a substituent, e.g. an acyl group, which on hydrolytic removal allows the replacement of R by H,R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 (same or different) are hydrocarbon substituents or R.sup.3 is H, andZ and Y represent the necessary atoms to close a benzene ring that may be substituted or form a fused ring system.

Abstract: An identity card for information is provided by the imprint of security figures on the card or the exposure of features in the data carrier insert. The data carrier may be a photographic silver halide layer of a recording material. In addition to the photograph and data about the owner there is provided a film covering the information carrier with externally applied imprints. The shapes of these external imprints are identical to the security features on the insert and are positioned exactly above said features.

Abstract: A recording device for linearly recording information upon a moving photoreceptor using a recording head that can be manufactured more readily. The recording head is made with a plurality of modules, each module comprising LED chip means having an aggregate length (n) greater than the length (o) of the base plate of the module and projecting exteriorly of the module side edges, and a common integrated control circuit for all the LED's mounted on the base plate of a given module, the outputs of such circuit being connected by wire bonding to the respective LED's on the module.

Abstract: An imagewise exposed negative sheet (1) and a positive sheet (2) of a two-sheet diffusion material which are joined together by an adhesion strip (3), transversely to the direction of movement of the sheets (1,2), are passed for wetting in tandem through a developing liquid (6). Thereafter, the rigidity of the sheets (1,2) and the flexibility of the adhesive strip (3) are used, together with a collecting device (11) and a stop (12) for the first-wetted sheet (2) which is adjustable therein to cause an independent V-shaped folding together of the sheets (1,2) about the adhesive strip bending point (14). A deflecting device (9) is adjusted so that the V-shaped folded bending point (14) is guided into the gap between a pair of pressing rollers (10), by which it is taken up. The sheets (1,2) are pressed together and are discharged, in this condition, into a collecting tray (15) through a discharge channel (13).

Abstract: Yellow couplers corresponding to the formula ##STR1## wherein Y represents an aromatic, aliphatic or cycloaliphatic group,X represents hydrogen or a releasable group,R.sup.1 represents halogen, andR.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each represent an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms,are readily soluble in oil formers and undergo coupling with a high color yield. They are resistant to heat and moisture and undergo color development to yield stable yellow dyes with an absorption maximum below 450 nm. They have a high absorption capacity in the near UV region and are virtually unaffected by fluctuations in the pH during processing.

Abstract: An apparatus for daylight loading of a plane film cassette having at least one dark slide comprises a housing having an inlet opening through which the plane film cassette is introduced. In the interior of the housing is located a platform and an abutment member for aligning the cassette. Photographic material is supplied from a supply roll and cut in predetermined lengths. The cut off portion of the photographic material is partly guided into the plane film cassette, whereinafter a friction element engages the material length through the side opening of the cassette with the dark slide open and advances it completely into the plane film cassette which is subsequently closed, relocked and taken out of the housing.

Abstract: Magnetic tape cassette for magnetic recording and playback devices, comprising a substantially rectangular, two-part housing which has an upper main wall and an opening along its front side, along which the magnetic tape is transported from two plane-parallel positioned reels, and a pivotal front lid which partly overlaps the side walls and which release and closes the opening, and which comprises an outer cover and an inner cover by which the magnetic tape is enclosed in the closed position of the front lid being biassed by means of torsion springs, one of the pivot pins 12 on the inside wall of the side part 10a of the front lid 7 accomodating a one-armed flat spiral spring 13, the arm 16 of which, pointing towards the front lid, has a length which extends up to the outer cover 8 of the front lid, and the arm in the ready made cassette lies in a groove 18 on the front end of the upper part of the cassette.

Abstract: A liquid developer composition for rendering visible electrostatically charged areas. The composition contains 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, dispersed coloring matter acting as toner particles and at least one onium salt polymer including recurring units incorporating an onium group together with an anion.

Abstract: A particulate composition of matter for magnetic brush development of electrostatic charge patterns, adapted upon mixing with magnetic carrier particles to acquire a net positive charge, which contains colorant material and thermoplastic resin binder, the colorant material comprising a salt formed from a nigrosine base and at least one carboxylic acid containing one or two carboxylic acid groups and having from 2 to 26 carbon atoms, wherein the nigrosine salt is dispersed as particles in the thermoplastic resin binder which contains a polyester derived from fumaric acid or a mixture of at least 95 mol % fumaric acid and the balance isophthalic acid and a polyol blend of propoxylated bisphenol. The charge pattern is developed by contacting the same under the influence of an applied magnetic field with a mixture of magnetic carrier particles and the particulate composition.

Abstract: The recording material contains in an outer layer pre-formed polymer particles, the particle size of which is less than 10 .mu.m and which have a particle size distribution of .+-.1 .mu.m, which are soluble in alkaline medium and are dispersed in a hydrophilic colloid, and which are a graft copolymer of methacrylic acid and methyl-methacrylate on the graft base of an .alpha.-olefin- or styrene-maleic acid semiamide-copolymer.

Abstract: Monoazo dyes corresponding to the following formula ##STR1## are suitable for use as light-stable cyan image dyes stable to reducing agents for the dye diffusion transfer process.In the above formula:Q represents the remainder of the molecule required to complete a fused benzene or thiophene ring, which contains additional electron acceptor groups, or to complete a fused pyridine, pyrimidine, pyridazine, pyrazine or thiazole ring;G represents --OH, acyloxy;R.sup.1 represents H or one or two identical or different radicals selected from the group consisting of halogen, acyl, acylamino and --CN;Y represents H, --OH, an amino group optionally substituted by alkyl or aryl, a cyclic amino group or a group of the formula --NH--SO.sub.2 --R.sup.2 ;R.sup.2 represents alkyl, aryl, an amino group optionally substituted twice by alkyl or a cyclic amino group;n=0, 1 or 2.

Abstract: Azo dyes corresponding to the formula (II): ##STR1## wherein G represents a group capable of forming a 5-membered chelate ring and R.sup.5 represents aryl or a thienyl group, combined with metal ions, in particular copper or nickel ions, to form stable azo dye-metal complexes which have advantageous spectral properties. They are therefore particularly suitable for the production of highly light-fast cyan images, e.g. by the Ink-Jet process, in which they may be used directly in the form of colored inks, or by the dye diffusion transfer process, in which they are released image-wise from corresponding dye-releasers in the course of development and transferred to a dye-absorbent layer.

Abstract: A recording apparatus for linewise recording information on a moving photoreceptor by means of a plurality of chips on each of which parallel sub-rows of uniformly spaced radiation sources are formed, wherein a shortcoming of prior art apparatus, namely the impossibility to use chips on which even one radiation source only is defect, is overcome.The apparatus comprises two parallel rows of radiation sources, each row comprising reserve radiation sources that are arranged with corresponding basic radiation sources of the other group in optical parallelism, and connection circuit means for establishing electrical contact with a basic and/or a reserve radiation source (FIG. 5).

Abstract: An exposed and developed film strip having a series of frames is conveyed by a copying station via a pair of rolls driven by a motor. Two or more photoelectric sensors upstream of the copying station generate signals indicative of the transparency of the film strip. The sensors are located on a reference line which extends normal to the longitudinal direction of the film strip. The signals from the sensors are processed to yield processed signals which are representative of significant transparency changes. The processed signals are evaluated to determine the definition of each frame and thereby determine whether a frame is worth copying. In order to locate the frames, the processed signals derived from each sensor are delivered to a common AND gate. The gate emits a pulse when processed signals from all sensors arrive at the gate simultaneously. This is a strong indication that an edge of a frame is in register with the reference line on which the sensors are located.