Abstract: The invention provides a coating implement for applying a nonvolatile liquid for protection treatment, which does not dissolve a coloring material, to a recorded product which is provided with a porous layer as an ink-receiving layer on the surface of a substrate, and on which an image has been formed with the coloring material adsorbed on at least the porous layer, thereby protecting the image, wherein a coating surface for applying the liquid to the porous layer having the image is supported by a supporting member, and the coating surface can hold the liquid.

Abstract: A polymeric film includes at least one irradiated water soluble layer. A process for making a water soluble film includes the steps of extruding a water soluble film; and irradiating the water soluble film. Using electron beam irradiation, a water soluble film's solubility rate can be increased.

Abstract: A release liner for business form and label constructions comprises a substrate of carbonizing bond paper having a weight of between about 35-80 grams per square meter. A radiation (e.g. U.V.) curable silicone polymer blend is coated on the first face of the substrate with a coating weight of between about 0.8-2.3 grams per square meter. The silicone polymer blend comprises a large part base silicone polymer and optionally up to 40% of tight release additive, about 1 to 5% photoinitiator, and possibly substantially inert ingredients. A paper face of the form or label having a weight of between about 65-99 grams per square meter has a hot melt permanent or removable pressure sensitive adhesive on one of its faces, either applied directly or transferred to it if coated on the silicone, the adhesive in contact with the release liner. The form or label is substantially curl free after running through a laser printer.

Abstract: Novel microcapsules are characterized in that the walls thereof consist of reaction products of crosslinking agents with iminooxadiazinedione isocyanates or the walls thereof contain such reaction products. A process for the production of such microcapsules has also been found, as have carbonless copying papers containing such microcapsules.

Abstract: A printing medium comprising a substrate having at least one surface and a coating adhered to the surface wherein the coating comprises (a) binder comprising film-forming organic polymer, and (b) the polymerization reaction product of the hydrolyzate of an aluminum alkoxide and an organoalkoxysilane.

Abstract: Thermally transferable printing ribbons and methods of making same fabricated by initially mixing and grinding solid ingredients together, and then emulsifying the entire mixture. Thermally transferable printing ribbons formulations in accordance with the present invention generally include one or more waxes, one or more resins, and pigments. These ingredients are ground hot in an attritor or ball mill. This mixture is then emulsified, and the resulting formulation is coated on an elongated backing element utilizing conventional coating equipment and techniques.

Abstract: A blue dyestuff represented by the formula (2) ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is independently a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, nitro group, hydroxy group, alkyl group which may have a substituent, alkoxy group, alkylsulfonylamino group or alkylcarbonylamino group, and each of R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 is independently an alkyl group which may have a substituent, and a heat-sensitive transfer sheet containing the above-mentioned dyestuff.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a self-adhesive, dry-transfer decal at a speed greater than or equal to 2000 decals per hour comprising applying at least one color layer onto a side of a carrier paper with a release value of 40 to 80 cN as measured by 20 mm width TESA-tape K7476 at 40.degree. C., to produce an image which adheres to the carrier paper with a release value of approximately 8 to 12 cN as measured by 20 mm width TESA-tape 651 having a measure range of 2N and a tear-off speed of 500 mm/minute, and applying an adhesive layer onto said at least one color layer such that the adhesive layer is congruent with the image.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive stencil sheet is disclosed, which comprises a porous sheet having on one side thereof at least an adhesive layer and a thermoplastic resin film layer in this order, wherein at least one of the layers constituting said stencil sheet contains a heat-sensitive color-forming material. The layer containing the heat-sensitive color-forming material develops a color on thermal perforation to visualize the perforated image so that a printing ink, particularly plural inks of different color, can be easily applied to the stencil sheet in proper positions in proper quantities.

Abstract: A thermal printing ribbon is made from an aqueous dispersion of a thermal plastic binder and particles of a wax component, fat-soluble dyestuff and a pigment so that these particles are found side by side in the interstices of a skeleton or matrix formed by a thermoplastic. The thermal printing ribbon has a multistrike capacity.

Abstract: A transfer recording medium comprising a substrate and a plurality of image forming elements bonded thereto by a binder is provided. The surface of each image forming element at least partially protrudes out of the binder. Such transfer recording medium may be prepared by applying the binder onto the substrate in a prescribed thickness, disposing the image forming elements in excess on the binder, and then removing the excess of the image forming elements. The thus prepared transfer recording medium provides an image having a high density and a faithfully reproducible color.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of a fluorescent ink layer for a fluorescent thermal transfer sheet is disclosed. The method comprises first forming a solution of a mixture comprising at least one acidic monomer, at least one basic monomer and at least one fluorescent dye. Thereafter, an emulsion of the solution is formed and the emulsion is polymerized.

Abstract: A manifold form assembly has a front page and a back page, with each page having at least one image-receiving area disposed thereon. The original front page is disposed on one side of a first sheet and the original back page is disposed on the other side of the first sheet. The first sheet is movable between a first position in which the original front page is exposed for completion and a second position in which the original back page is exposed for completion. A pressure sensitive image-transferring system is provided integral with the assembly to transfer pressure-created images formed on the front and back page image-receiving areas. Duplicate front and back pages receive images transferred by the image-transferring system. A stub connects the original pages, the image-transferring system, and the duplicate pages into an integral form assembly. In one embodiment, a set of carbons transfer the pressure-created images from the original front sheet to the duplicate front sheets.

Abstract: In a printing system for printing an image on a recording sheet, adopted as the recording sheet is a sheet coated with microcapsules on one surface thereof. Each microcapsule envelopes a first component therein while the sheet itself holds a second component. The color of second component is changed when mixed with the first component. The microcapsule further envelopes a third component which increase the mechanical strength of microcapsule when light is projected thereto. An image is formed on the recording sheet by selectively rupturing the microcapsules in accordance with the image to be printed thereon, and the unruptured microcapsules remaining on the recording sheet are then hardened by exposing a light thereto and thus the image printed on the recording sheet is fixed thereon.

Abstract: Correction compositions for correcting markings provided on the surface of a pressure-sensitive chemical recording medium carrying a developer material which comprises an acidic developer by interaction of the developer material with a color-providing material. The compositions comprise a substantially uniform dispersion of an opacifying pigment, a polymeric film-forming material, and a Lewis acid. The composition is applied to a marking to provide a film which covers the marking, and a visible correcting marking can be provided on the film by applying a pattern of color-providing material corresponding to the corrected marking to the film.

Abstract: A manifold form assembly has a front page and a back page, with each page having image-receiving areas disposed thereon. The front page image-receiving areas are non-overlapping with the back page image-receiving areas. A pressure-sensitive image-transferring system is provided integral with the assembly to transfer pressure-created images formed on the front and back page image-receiving areas. Duplicate front and back pages receive images transferred by the image-transferring system. A stub connects the original pages, the image-transferring system, and the duplicate pages into an integral form assembly.

Abstract: Improvements in tamper-resisting multipart negotiable instruments, such as airline ticket books are disclosed. The books include at least two webs. The first web includes, on its second surface, a medium for transferring an image to the first surface of a second web in contact therewith when a corresponding image is inscribed on the first surface of that web. The first surface of the second web is in contact with the second surface of the first web and includes an image receiving layer capable of receiving an image transferred from the second surface of the first web. The image receiving layer includes a particulate mixture erasably bonded to the second web, which becomes defaced when rubbed with an organic solvent, and which is removable when an adhesive tape is applied to the image receiving layer and is pulled away therefrom.

Abstract: Conditionally self-copying stationery is provided wherein a carbon copy of handwritten material can be made dependently upon the attitude of insertion of a copy sheet. The copy sheet has a carbon back coating on one face thereof and each of the writing sheets in a pad has a carbon front coating on the upper surface thereof. Dependently upon whether the copy sheet is inserted such that its carbon back coating makes contact with a carbon front coating or not, so a carbon copy is selectably made or not made. The copy sheet is the conventional writing guide found in writing pads, and is printed on both sides with writing guidelines.

Abstract: A process for producing a multicolor heat transfer recording paper using hot-melt inks with different melting points is provided. With the recording paper obtained according to this process, it is possible to form high-density and clear multicolor transfer images by merely controlling the temperature of the thermal head in a thermal facsimile or other similar devices.

Abstract: A tamper-resisting negotiable instrument, its method of manufacture and use are disclosed. The instrument includes a stack of webs comprising a substantially transparent first web having one surface adapted to receive images; a second, removable web, having an image transferring means the one surface in contact with the one, image receiving surface of the first web; and a third removable web including an area capable of visualizing images on its surface facing the second web. Inscription of an image against the surface of the top web in the stack transfers the image from the image transferring means of the second web to the surface of the first web adapted for receiving images and also to the image visualizing area of the third web. Removal of the second web thereafter permits visual inspection of the transferred images, which are superimposed if there has been no tampering.

Abstract: Method for producing novel multiple use pressure-sensitive transfer elements in the absence of volatile coating vehicles. The invention comprises preparing a molten coating composition including a compatible binder material mixture of hard wax and meltable synthetic resin, and a fluid ink comprising a solution of dyestuff in an oleaginous vehicle which is substantially incompatible with said wax and substantially compatible with said synthetic resin, coating said mixture onto a thin flexible foundation such as a plastic film and cooling to form a solidified cohesive microporous network of said binder material having uniformly dispersed within the pores thereof said fluid ink. Said ink is pressure-transferable from said network incrementally under the effects of imaging pressure along with that surface portion of the binder material network which is pressure-adhered to the copy sheet under the effects of the imaging pressure.

Abstract: A barrier pigment is added to a fluorescent ribbon to prevent light from being absorbed into the media upon which the pigment is applied during printing. The barrier pigment is added to the fluorescent layer or is applied over the fluorescent layer as an additional layer.

Abstract: A heat-transfer recording medium is described, which includes a substrate and a two color transfer layer on the substrate, wherein the two color transfer layer contains a solid heat-sensitive ink which melts or sublimates at a relatively low temperature and is transferred to a recording paper as a predetermined color, and a heat-sensitive color-forming ink dispersed in the solid heat-sensitive ink, which melts or sublimates at a relatively high temperature, and is transferred to the recording paper in a color different from the above color.

Abstract: A multiuse carbon transfer material, e.g. a carbon "paper" or carbon ribbon has a synthetic resin support film or foil having a coating which contains, in addition to a synthetic resin binder, a coloring agent of an oil base type. The oil forming the base for this coloring agent is a polyoxyethylene tenside which forms a plasticizer for the synthetic resin material of the binder.

Abstract: A multi-ply business form comprising a plurality of sheets in superposed relationship wherein the top sheet comprises a support bearing a localized coating comprising both microscopic pressure rupturable capsules containing a chromogenic material, and an electron acceptor material. At least one underlying sheet can comprise a support bearing a second localized autogenous coating comprising chromogen-containing microscopic pressure rupturable capsules and an electron acceptor material on its upper surface wherein the localized autogenous coatings are non-coextensive.

Abstract: The subject is a carbon film, which consists of a transparent plastic film as base, a coloring, dark pigmented carbon layer, and a thin intervening layer located between the base and the carbon layer. Such a carbon film can be used as "carbon paper" or for the production of typewriter ribbons. The intervening layer contains synthetic lustrous pigments, color-doped as necessary, whereby the back of the film acquires an excellent coloring, without requiring a special covering layer for it.

Abstract: A transfer paper for use in drawing patterns or marking designs on a sheet material, comprising a base material and on one or both surfaces thereof, a water-soluble or water-dispersible transfer coating comprising cobalt thiocyanate, wax, a non-ionic surfactant and another surfactant.

Abstract: Stable, concentrated, free-flowing aqueous dispersion compositions containing one or more colorless dyestuff precursors and one or more surface active agents, are useful in the manufacture of paper for pressure sensitive carbonless duplicating manifold systems and thermal marking systems.

Abstract: A process is provided for producing a pressure-sensitive carbonless record sheet comprising the steps of preparing a hot melt coating composition, the hot melt coating composition being water insoluble and having a melting point of from about 60.degree. C. to about 140.degree. C. The hot melt coating composition includes a chromogenic material. The chromogenic material is a meltable color developer of the acidic electron accepting type. The hot melt coating composition is heated to a temperature above its melting point and the heated coating composition is applied to a substrate, the coating composition being applied at a coat weight of from about 0.2 pounds to about 8.0 pounds per 3300 square feet of substrate. The coating composition is set by cooling the coated substrate. A novel liquid chromogenic coating composition is produced, the coating composition having a melting point of from about 60.degree. C. to about 140.degree. C.

Abstract: Coating methods and compositions for products and transfer media, such as carbon papers, in which a preliminary coating of liquid-dispersed colorant, such as carbon black, is applied at a first stage followed by a transfer overcoating at a second stage. The multistage coating procedure affords the threefold benefits of (1) improved image transfer properties in the product; (2) a reduced tendency of the product to smudge; and (3) less than the conventional amount of transfer materials for a specified result being required.

Abstract: A "one-component" carbonless copying paper, comprising paper having on the same surface thereof (1) a color former encapsulated in walls of polyurea obtained by the reaction of a polyisocyanate with a polyamine and water, and (2) a developer capable of reacting with the color former to form a dyestuff, the developer having been formed in situ during the reaction of the polyisocyanate with the polyamine.

Abstract: Pressure-sensitive transfer ribbons of the squeeze-out or reusable type having a thin, flexible plastic film foundation having bonded thereto a microporous resinous ink layer containing pressure-exudable liquid ink and designed for use in high speed printing or impact machines in which the ribbon is moving during impact. The invention comprises the formation of a thin friction-reducing or slip-permitting layer of silicone polymer on the rear or impact surface of the film foundation in order to reduce the friction between the moving printing element and the moving film foundation and prevent grabbing of the film foundation and breakdown of the bond between the film foundation and the ink layer.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer element comprising a foundation, a thermal color-developing layer provided on the front surface of the foundation and a hot-melt ink layer provided on the back surface of the foundation; the ink layer including a heat conductive material powder and a solid wax, and having a melt-transfer property a printed image to be formed on the thermal color-developing layer by the impression of a thermal head, and simultaneously the hot-melt ink being transferred to a copy sheet facing the transfer element at the hot-melt ink layer side, the duplicated image having good clarity and excellent durability being able to be prepared at a high speed on a thermal printer.

Abstract: A color forming heat sensitive coating composition comprising a color forming amount of a finely divided homogenous basic 3,3-bisarylphthalane derivative and a color developing amount of a finely divided solid phenyl derivative which at thermal printing temperature is at least partly fluidizable and capable of a color forming reaction with said 3,3-bisarylphthalane compound dispersed in a polyvinyl alcohol carrier is disclosed wherein the improvement comprises the addition of an anti-sticking amount of a functional filler which may be a di(lower alkyl)dithiocarbamate or lower alkylxanthate of lead, zinc, cadmium and alkaline earth metals or a tetra (lower alkyl)thiuram disulfide or a di(lower alkyl) xanthogen.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed which comprises a support sheet of 5-40.mu. in thickness having thereon a heat-sensitive transfer layer containing a phenolic material, a colorless or pale-colored chromogenic material which forms a color with said phenolic material upon application of heat and a heat fusible material having a melting point of 40.degree.-150.degree. C. and an image receiving sheet superposed on the surface of said layer which are made into one integral sheet by pressing. Using this recording material, sufficiently high density of record can be obtained even by low heat energy, and the background (non-record portion) forms substantially no color to result in high contrast of record.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive recording paper in which a necessary heat-sensitive image-forming layer is provided on a neutral or alkaline paper prepared by practising the sizing process by the use of a combination of anionic sizing agent and cationic fixing agent, a combination of reactive sizing agent and neutral fixing agent or a self-fixable cationic sizing agent is improved in the keeping quality of ground color so that the ground is protected against coloration for a long period of time even at high temperature at high humidity or at high temperature, which enables to use 3-pyrrolidino-6-methyl-7-anilinofluoran or 3-N-methylcyclohexylamino-6-methyl-7-anilinofluoran as a color-forming agent in combination with Bisphenol A as an acidic color-developing agent.

Abstract: Pressure-sensitive transfer elements having a polyolefin film foundation carrying a solvent-applied, pressure-transferable complete-release or "correctable" imaging layer comprising a normally-hard resinous binder material, a non-hydroxylated fatty acid oil plasticizer, such as rapeseed oil, which softens or embrittles the resin, a metal salt of a C.sub.10 to C.sub.30 fatty acid, such as zinc stearate, which gels the fatty acid oil, and a quantity of coloring matter. The oil plasticizer of the transfer layer is rendered non-migratory and does not penetrate the polyolefin film foundation, even over an extended period of time, and the transfer layer has excellent cohesive properties and excellent frangibility whereby it transfers readily and completely to a copy paper from the film foundation and yet, according to one embodiment, can be removed completely and cleanly from the copy paper by means of conventional lift-off ribbons or tapes.

Abstract: A thermally sensitive record material is disclosed which comprises chromogenic material which is a mixture of the isomers 7-(1-ethyl-2-methylindol-3-yl)-7-(4-dimethylamino-2-ethoxyphenyl)-5,7-dihy drofuro[3,4-b]pyridin-5-one and 5-(1-ethyl-2-methylindol-3-yl)-5-(4-diethylamino-2-ethoxyphenyl)-5,7-dihyd rofuro[3,4-b]pyridin-7-one. This record material has superior color forming efficiency and greater image stability, especially resistance to fading in incident light.

Abstract: Pressure-sensitive transfer elements having a plastic film foundation carrying a frangible, complete-release pressure-transfer layer applied by means of a volatile coating vehicle and comprising a solid solution of a fluorescing dye in the resinous binder material of said layer. Such transfer elements are adapted to transfer solid images to the surface of a copy sheet, which images fluoresce under exposure to ultraviolet light and are automatically detectible when sensed on the imaged surface of the copy sheet but are not detectible when sensed through the obverse side of the copy sheet.

Abstract: A lamination of sheet material to be processed in a typewriter in the usual manner and within which is contained removable lengths of flattened heat shrink tubing releasably held in alignment by adhesive and exposed to a superimposed film of pressure transferable printing material, the laminations presenting a manifold and the front of which is lined to coincide with the placement of the shrink tubing for accurate imprinting of indicia thereon, the imprinted shrink tubing lengths being individually removable and applicable to the end portions of wiring to identify the same.

Abstract: In a printing system wherein a ball stylus of a given diameter is brought into repeated engagement with the back side of a transfer sheet to selectively transfer a printing medium on the front side of the transfer sheet to a facing printing medium receiving surface of a recording sheet to printout image defining marks thereon, the improvement wherein one of the transfer and image recording sheets includes a surface provided by an orderly spaced array of raised mesas and recessed areas therebetween to selectively limit the size or area of the marks printed out in this manner.

Abstract: A ribbon, adapted for use on an impact printer, is provided wherein the ribbon is impregnated with a first substantially colorless substance which acts as a color-former when reacted with a second substantially colorless substance acting as a color-developer, present on a portion of a substrate. Upon the transfer of the color-former from the ribbon to the substrate by impact, a colored image will form on those areas of the substrate which are coated or impregnated with the color-developer. Images may thus be selectively transferred to an interior ply of a multi-ply business forms assembly by the conventional transfer methods without appearing on the exterior, impact receiving ply of such an assembly.

Abstract: An improved duplicating form capable of making one or more copies of each side of an original on a single copy is provided by the present duplicating form which utilizes a first reproducing sheet such as a carbon paper or a pressure sensitive paper in combination with a second reproducing sheet composed of a pressure sensitive paper in the duplicating form wherein the first sheet reproduces information on one side of the original and thereafter a pressure sensitive paper is utilized to reproduce information or other script marked on the other side of the duplicating form.

Abstract: A transfer sheet is provided having a substrate coated with pressure-rupturable microcapsules containing an oil and an oil-soluble dye intermediate and a particulate oil-absorptive material which is non-reactive with the dye intermediate and is situated with respect to said microcapsules such that oil released by the microcapsules is absorbed thereby. The concentration of oil absorptive material is sufficient to permit writing on the coated substrate without interference from oil released by ruptured microcapsules but less than that which materially reduces the transfer of oily solution from ruptured microcapsules to an underlying copy sheet.

Abstract: Pressure-sensitive reusable transfer elements of the squeeze-out type having a microporous resinous ink-releasing layer firmly bonded to a flexible foundation. The invention is characterized by the use of a bonding layer which is applied to the foundation as an aqueous composition comprising a water-dispersible, water-insoluble resinous binder material which dries to form a tacky, adhesive layer.

Abstract: Improved pressure marking fibrous record material such as paper is provided wherein the rear surface is in contact with a profusion of liquid droplets of marking material such as ink. The fibers of the paper are vapor treated to render them repellent to the liquid marking material without substantially reducing the porosity of the sheet. Upon application of patterned marking pressure to the paper, the ink droplets are forced through the sheet to form a visible image of the pattern on the top surface. The repellent treatment reduces lateral flow of the ink in the sheet and improves image definition.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive recording material which comprises a substrate bearing a dye-forming component and a binder. The dye-forming component is a spirodipyran of the formula ##STR1## where A is the radical of a fused benzene or naphthalene ring (which rings may or may not be substituted), R.sup.1 is alkyl of 1 to 16 carbon atoms, substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or phenalkyl of 7 to 10 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is H or together with R.sup.1 is a trimethylene or tetramethylene bridge which is unsubstituted or substituted by from 1 to 3 alkyl, R.sup.3 is benzyl or .beta.-phenylethyl and R.sup.4 is benzyl, .beta.-phenylethyl or substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, or R.sup.3 is alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms and R.sup.4 is substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or R.sup.3 is benzyl and R.sup.4 is .beta.-cyanoethyl. The recording materials give violet to bluish green colorations (copies) only on paper coated with an electron acceptor.

Abstract: The negotiable document which may be used, e.g. by airlines includes a cover sheet provided with a hot spot carbon or other image transfer medium and at least one underlying sheet fully or partly coated with microcapsules of a dye intensifier and attractor. When information is imprinted on the cover sheet, the microcapsules of the dye intensifier in the underlying sheet are burst to wet the sheet and, thus, allow impregnation of the image transferred by the hot spot carbon into the fibers of the sheet. At the same time, the dye within the hot spot carbon is attracted into the sheet. The impregnation of the sheet is sufficient to prevent removal of the image from the underlying sheet without first destroying the sheet or mutilating it in such a manner that the defalcation effort is obvious.

Abstract: A manifold form assembly has a front page and a back page, with each page having image-receiving areas disposed thereon. The front page image-receiving areas are non-overlapping with the back page image-receiving areas. A pressure-sensitive image-transferring system is provided integral with the assembly to transfer pressure-created images formed on the front and back page image-receiving areas. Duplicate front and back pages receive images transferred by the image-transferring system. A stub connects the original pages, the image-transferring system, and the duplicate pages into an integral form assembly.

Abstract: A manifold form assembly has a front page and a back page, with each page having at least one image-receiving area disposed thereon. The original front page is disposed on one side of a first sheet and the original back page is disposed on the other side of the first sheet. The first sheet is movable between a first position in which the original front page is exposed for completion and a second position in which the original back page is exposed for completion. A pressure sensitive image-transferring system is provided integral with the assembly to transfer pressure-created images formed on the front and back page image-receiving areas. Duplicate front and back pages receive images transferred by the image-transferring system. A stub connects the original pages, the image-transferring system, and the duplicate pages into an integral form assembly. In one embodiment, a set of carbons transfer the pressure-created images from the original front sheet to the duplicate front sheets.