Abstract: The invention concerns composite metallized polyester films with good barrier properties relative to gases. More precisely, it concerns a biaxially drawn composite metallized film based on polyester and having improved barrier properties to gases, characterized in that the composite comprises a polyester film base of 5 &mgr;m to 50 &mgr;m, directly coated on one of its two faces with a layer including a mixture of a polyvinyl alcohol which has an average degree of polymerization in number equal to or in excess of 350 and a water-dispersible copolyester with sulphonyloxy residues, the layer including the polyvinyl alcohol and the water-dispersible copolyester being in turn coated with a metal layer, the composite film exhibiting a permeability to oxygen, measured at 23° C. under 50% relative humidity, equal to or lesser than 0.4 cm3/m2/24 h. The composite metallized polyester films have, besides their barrier properties, excellent resistance to mechanical stresses, such as in particular crumpling.

Abstract: The invention concerns composite polyester films with good barrier properties relative to gases. More precisely, it concerns a biaxially drawn film, based on polyester and having improved barrier properties relative to gases, characterised in that it comprises a base polyester film of 5 to 50 &mgr;m, coated on one of its two surfaces with a deposit containing polyvinyl alcohol and a water dispersible copolyester with sulphonyloxy units, said composite film having permeability to oxygen measured at 23° C. under 50% relative humidity, not more than 5 cm3/m2/24 h. Said composite films have, besides being transparent and having barrier properties, excellent resistance to mechanical stresses, such as in particular crumpling.

Abstract: This invention concerns composite metal-coated polyester films with good barrier properties relative to gases. More precisely, it concerns a biaxially drawn composite metal-coated film based on polyester and having improved barrier properties relative to gases, characterised in that it comprises a base polyester film of 5 to 50 &mgr;m, coated on one of its two surfaces with a deposit containing polyvinyl alcohol and a water dispersible copolyester with sulphonyloxy units, the deposit containing polyvinyl alcohol and a water dispersible copolyester which is itself coated with a metal deposit, said composite film having permeability to oxygen measured at 23° C. under 50% relative humidity, not more than 0.4 cm3/m2/24 h [cm3/m224/h] composite metal-coated films have, besides their barrier properties, excellent resistance to mechanical stresses such as crumpling.

Abstract: Transparent receptor substrates, well suited for electrostatic reprography, e.g., for the production of overhead transparencies, exhibit excellent transparency, good slip, good adhesion of toner thereto and good electrical conductivity, comprise (i) a transparent composite polyester base(s) having (ii) a toner-receptive primer coating (P) on at least one of the face surfaces thereof, such composite polyester base comprising (a) a thick layer (A) of semicrystalline polyester and (b) a thin layer (B) of an identical or different polyester adhered to at least one of the face surfaces of said thick layer (A), and the at least one primer coating (P) comprising an acrylic polymer having a glass transition temperature ranging from 10.degree. C. to 50.degree. C., a free --COOH carboxylic functional group content less than 50 millimoles per 100 grams of said acrylic polymer and a thickness no greater than 0.3 .mu.m.

Abstract: Polyester-based, biaxially oriented composite films having good transparency and gas-barrier properties, exhibiting excellent resistance to mechanical shock and being easily recyclable, comprise a polyester base film (for example shaped from polyethylene terephthalate) 5 .mu.m to 50 .mu.m in thickness, coated on at least one of its two face surfaces with a layer of polyvinyl alcohol having a number-average degree of polymerization equal to or greater than 350 and a thickness less than or equal to 0.3 .mu.m, the mean roughness Rz of the base film being less than or equal to 0.30 .mu.m on the at least one face surface of the film onto which a polyvinyl alcohol layer is coated and said at least one coated face surface comprising, on average, not more than 20 peaks of a height equal to or greater than 1 micrometer and not more than 150 peaks of a height ranging from 0.4 to 1 micrometer, per square millimeter, and such composite films exhibiting a permeability to oxygen, measured at 23.degree. C.

Abstract: Oxysulfonylated polyesters, well suited for conversion into oriented composite polyester films, are prepared by polycondensing a lower alkyl diester of at least one aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and a lower alkyl diester of at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid bearing an oxysulfonyl substituent, and optionally a lower alkyl diester of at least one aromatic dicarboxylic acid, with at least one diol, in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of at least one titanium compound and at least one manganese carboxylate.

Abstract: Polyester-based, biaxially oriented composite films having good transparency and gas-barrier properties, exhibiting excellent resistance to mechanical shock and being easily recyclable, comprise a polyester base film (for example shaped from polyethylene terephthalate) 5 .mu.m to 50 .mu.m in thickness, coated on at least one of its two face surfaces with a layer of polyvinyl alcohol having a number-average degree of polymerization equal to or greater than 350 and a thickness less than or equal to 0.3 .mu.m, the mean roughness Rz of the base film being less than or equal to 0.30 .mu.m on the at least one face surface of the film onto which a polyvinyl alcohol layer is coated and said at least one coated face surface comprising, on average, not more than 20 peaks of a height equal to or greater than 1 micrometer and not more than 150 peaks of a height ranging from 0.4 to 1 micrometer, per square millimeter, and such composite films exhibiting a permeability to oxygen, measured at 23.degree. C.

Abstract: The invention relates to semicrystalline biorientated composite polyester films comprising a thick filled or unfilled layer and, on at least one of the faces of the layer (A), a coextruded polyester layer (B) whose thickness is less than that of the layer (A) and which has the following characteristics:Rt.ltoreq.3 .mu.mRt/Ra.ltoreq.10and contains a filler having the following characteristics:mean diameter D 50=1.5 to 2.5 .mu.mmonodispersity I=D 75-D 25.ltoreq.1.2These films can be used as protective sheets for the photopolymerizable layer of photopolymerizable elements.