Abstract: An improved light-sensitive negative-working diazo type film is described. The film includes a diazo-oxide sensitizer and an additive therefore which improves the actinic opacity of the image formed during the diazo process. The additive operates by reacting with the azo dye formed in the image areas. An example of such an additive is a sulfonic acid halide.

Abstract: A light-sensitive vesicular imaging composition is disclosed comprising a vesiculating agent which liberates gas upon exposure to activating radiation, a binder and a diol speed-increasing agent. The composition is coated as a thin film. Imagewise irradiation of the element causes gas to be released in the exposed areas. The composition, comprising gas entrapped in a thermoplastic matrix, can be heated to produce a visible record.

Abstract: A positive light-sensitive composition containing: (a) a quinonediazide type, positive light-sensitive substance and (1) (b) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of those compounds represented by the following general formulae (I) ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group or a cycloalkyl group; (2) those compounds represented by the general formula (II) ##STR2## wherein R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group or a cycloalkyl group; and R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group; and (3) o-benzoic acid sulfimide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making a negative photoresist image on a substrate, where a normally positive working photoresist material containing 1-hydroxyethyl-2-alkyl-imidazoline is applied to a substrate, image-wise exposed with actinic radiation, heated, and blanket exposed to actinic radiation. The material which was not exposed originally is then removed with a solvent to give a negative image.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of producing diazotype photoprinting material in which a base paper is withdrawn from a supply roll and transported through a precoating station in which a solution containing a silicon filler is applied to one side of the base paper; the paper is then transported from the precoating station past a plurality of heaters to a sensitizing station in which a solution containing a diazotype sensitizing compound is applied to one side of the base paper; the base paper is then transported past a second set of heaters to a transparentizing station in which a solution containing a water emulsion of a water clear synthetic organic resin is applied to the other side of the base paper simultaneously to render the base paper translucent and to decurl the paper; the paper is then transported past a third set of heaters to dry the paper to a moisture content of about 4% and finally is wound into a roll. A method of transparentizing any water absorbent natural fiber material is also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to a radiation-sensitive copying composition comprising a compound (1) which splits-off an acid upon irradiation and a compound (2) having at least one group selected from the group consisting of a carboxylic ortho acid ester group and a carboxylic acid amide acetal group, which composition, upon irradiation, forms an exposure product having a higher solubility in a liquid developer than the non-irradiated composition.

Abstract: My invention is directed to a process of forming dye images. I accomplish this through a first redox amplification reaction in which a cobalt (III) complex oxidizing agent enters into a redox reaction with a reducing agent at the site of a catalyst image. A second redox amplification reaction follows in which a peroxide oxidizing agent is employed along with dye-image-generating reducing agent to form a dye image corresponding to the pattern of the catalyst.

Abstract: A heat developable, photographic material comprising, in reactive association, (a) a photosensitive, transition metal carbonyl compound, (b) an oxidation-reduction image-forming combination comprising (i) a tellurium (II) or (IV) compound as an oxidizing agent, with (ii) a reducing agent, and (c) a binder can provide an improved non-silver image. After imagewise exposure of the heat developable material, an image can be developed by merely heating the material.

Abstract: A method for the amplification or intensification of dye images formed in a negative-working diazo system which comprises the steps of: (1) initially image-wise exposing a negative-working diazo layer to actinic radiation sufficient to convert a portion of the diazo compound contained therein to an active coupling constituent in the light-struck areas to form a first latent image, (2) developing the exposed diazo layer to effect coupling so as to form colored incipient images in the light-struck areas, (3) exposing the entire diazo layer from the same side as the initial image-wise exposure to actinic radiation of a greater amount than that used in the initial exposure, said amount of actinic radiation being sufficient to substantially photolyze the non-image areas while simultaneously creating second latent images beneath the already-developed areas, and (4) developing the exposed diazo layer again to effect coupling in said second latent image areas to form color therein and to amplify the initial colored i

Abstract: A positive working, thermally stable photoresist, comprising a light-sensitive orthoquinone diazide or naphthoquinone diazide and a polyamic acid condensation product of an aromatic dianhydride and an aromatic di-primary amine, and a support carrying a layer of said photoresist. After exposure, the image is developed in the layer with an alkaline aqueous developer and is unaffected by heating to 500.degree. C, thus allowing the use of the photoresist layer for plasma and sputter-etching as well as ion implantation.

Abstract: A new and improved developing solution for two-component light-sensitive diazo-type copying materials is described. The solution is a substituted organic diamine formulation which produces dry, high quality diazo prints rapidly, replacing conventional dry ammonia gas systems. The preferred diamine is N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-ethylenediamine alone or with diethylaminopropylamine.

Abstract: Modifying the surface of a diazotype material by incorporating hydroxyalkyl cellulose ether into the diazotype sensitizing coating composition or coating the assembly with it so as to roughen the surface of the material thereby enabling nitrogen, which is liberated when the material is exposed to light, to escape from between the master and the diazotype material to prevent nitrogen accumulating between the two and hence avoiding slippage of one relative to the other.

Abstract: A photographic element comprises a support having thereon a binder containing numerous vesicles, each vesicle comprising a matrix of lipid membranes containing rhodopsin and one of(a) metal cations or(b) materials selected from the group consisting of chelatometric materials, colorimetric reagents for said metal cations, materials which are caused to react by the presence of said metal cations to form a gas or a visible reaction product, and materials which form elemental metal through redox reactions with said metal cationsInside the vesicles and the other (a) or (b) outside the vesicles. On imagewise exposure to light, the metal cations flow through the vesicles and react with the above material in the exposed areas only.

Abstract: A translucent sheet bearing opaque graphic intelligence thereon coated with a film which absorbs ultraviolet light, whereby the passage of visible light therethrough projects a legible image while light in the ultraviolet range is not transmitted so that diazotype copies cannot be produced of the graphic intelligence.

Abstract: A light-sensitive material comprising a layer containing:(a) at least one organic compound containing tellurium and/or selenium; and(b) at least one sensitizing compound selected from the oxides, basic halides, halides, sulfates, nitrates, perchlorates, or organic acid salts of In (III), Sb (III), Ti (IV), Zn (II), Bi (III), Ge (IV), and Sn (IV).

Abstract: A light sensitive mass which contains a film former, which consists of 20 to 90 percent by weight of a vinylpyrrolidone-vinyl acetate copolymer or a polyvinyl pyrrolidone or both and 10 to 80 percent by weight of an aryl sulfone amide formaldehyde resin, and at least one sensitizer, the weight ratio of said film former to sensitizer being between 1:1 and 10:1. Usually the light sensitive mass is used as a light sensitive reversal-development layer on a carrier.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of forming a dye image through redox amplification using a peroxide oxidizing agent. This is accomplished by forming an immobile cobalt complex image and using this image to define a reversal immobile catalytic manganese complex image. The immobile catalytic manganese complex image is employed as a catalyst in a peroxide redox amplification step to form an image dye.

Abstract: A diazotype material, which comprises a supported light-sensitive layer comprising a light-sensitive, water-insoluble diazoimino compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is an aryl group and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are organic radicals, which may be the same or different, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a heterocyclic group, an azo coupler, and an alkaline material, said diazoimino compound, when exposed to ultraviolet light, being reactive with said azo coupler to form a visible dye product only at a pH greater than 7. The diazotype material can be used for diazotype reproduction processes resulting in negative or direct positive images.

Abstract: Pure-blue images are obtained by developing a diazo photographic material containing a photosensitive diazonium compound in the presence of a coupler capable of forming a blue dye by coupling with the photosensitive diazonium compound, the coupler being represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents ##STR2## (wherein R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms), --COR.sub.4 (wherein R.sub.4 represents an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms or substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, or ##STR3## (WHEREIN N REPRESENTS 1 OR 2) OR BY THE GENERAL FORMULA ##STR4## wherein R.sub.5 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms or ##STR5## (WHEREIN N REPRESENTS 1 OR 2).

Abstract: On an apparatus for developing latent images of diazotype prints with a developer liquid containing an organic amine or amines as the developing agent, the tendency of the diazotype paper to curl and wind round the applicator roller is effectively precluded by the addition of a very small amount of a fluorocarbon non-ionic surface active agent. The amount of the agent is preferably in the range from 0.01 to 1% of the total weight of the developer composition.

Abstract: An image-forming element is disclosed comprised of a support and a coating thereon containing a cobalt(III)complex and a compound containing a conjugated .pi. bonding system capable of forming at least a bidentate chelate with cobalt(III). The coating is predominantly free of anions which will form conjugate acids by deprotonation of a cobalt(II)complex containing the chelating compound. In one preferred form the image-forming element is radiation-sensitive. In this form the image-forming element can contain a photoactivator capable of initiating reduction of the cobalt(III)complex. An imaging process is disclosed in which the coating is exposed to actinic radiation to produce an image. Images can be recorded directly within the image-forming coating or in a separate image-recording element or layer by use of the residual cobalt(III)complex or by use of one or more of the reaction products produced by exposure.

Abstract: Diazotype copies are produced from one-component diazotype material in a practically dry state without adversely affecting their feel or the speed of development. The diazotype material comprises a support and a light-sensitive surface layer having an average maximum thickness of not more than 8 micrometers and comprising 0.2-2 milligram molecules of one or more diazo compounds, which, in vitro, couple more actively than 4-diazo-2-chloro-N.N.-diethylaniline. After imagewise exposure the copy is developed by applying to the light-sensitive surface of the diazotype material a quantity amounting to 1.5 to 4.5 cm.sup.3 /m.sup.2 of an aqueous, buffered solution, which is at a pH of between 5.5 and 7 and which comprises per liter 0.1-0.6 g.mol of azocoupling component, consisting for at least 50% by weight of phloroglucinol and 1-3 g. equivalents of buffer salt. The diazo layer advantageously is formed by spreading 2-8 cm.sup.3 of sensitizing solution of adapted concentration onto the support.

Abstract: A vesicular image is prepared by contacting an original with a vesicular photograhic element, wherein the element contains a decomposing photosensitive material; and irradiating said element with light containing infrared light from the element side of said contacted image and element.

Abstract: A process for the formation of formazan dye images employing nuclei of metals from Groups VIIIB and/or IB of the periodic table to catalyze the reduction of tetrazolium salts to the corresponding formazan dye by a reducing agent.

Abstract: Carboxylic acids are included in resists to increase their speed and adhesion.

Abstract: A process for the development, following imagewise exposure, of two component diazotype material in sheet form constituted by a base carrying a light-sensitive coating containing a diazonium salt, a coupler, and an acid coupling inhibitor, said process comprising, while advancing the material continuously at a rate of 1 to 20 meters per minute, first applying to the exposed light-sensitive coating a non-volatile alkaline, inorganic developer liquid having a pH value of at least 10 at a coating weight between 2.0 and 8.0 grams per square meter to effect, in the unexposed areas of the material, coupling between the diazonium salt and the coupler, then subjecting the material to heat sufficient to dry it and finally applying to the light-sensitive coating a dilute acid solution at a coating weight between 2.0 and 8.0 grams per square meter, said acid solution containing sufficient acid not only to neutralize alkali retained in the material but to leave the emerging material in a substantially acid condition.

Abstract: A light-sensitive vesicular imaging composition comprising a vesiculating agent which liberates gas upon exposure to activating radiation, and a binder which is a sulfonamide polymer having the sulfur-nitrogen linkage either in the polymer chain or as a pendant moiety. The composition is coated as a thin film. Imagewise irradiation of the element causes gas bubbles to be released in the exposed areas, which bubbles may be developed by overall heating to a visible record.

Abstract: Hardenable gelatine recording materials are used in a process for the production of lightfast phase halograms. The recording material is hardened by the exposure to light and sensitized with ammonium dichromate. After exposure, it is developed, dehydrated and hardened. Development is carried out in a desensitizing bath containing formaldehyde sulphite and is followed by hardening in a formalin solution. Dehydration is carried out in two successive stages. In the first stage, the material is treated with an aqueous isopropanol solution and in the second stage with a concentrated isopropanol solution to which formaldehyde is added.

Abstract: A reserve supply of diazotype developing liquid from which liquid is supplied to semi-dry diazotype developing apparatus is maintained at both a substantially constant level and the required concentration of azo coupling component by introducing solvent for the liquid to restore the liquid level upon a decrease of the supply volume, sensing the specific gravity of the supply liquid by a hydrometer, and counteracting the decrease of concentration resulting from solvent addition by introducing a liquid concentrate containing the azo coupling component and electrolyte in response to a lowering of the hydrometer.

Abstract: A photosensitive color-forming element comprises a support and a photosensitive color-forming layer formed on said support and containing therein at least one photosensitive color-forming azido compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein [A] is a benzene ring or naphthalene ring, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each is a hydrogen or halogen atom or alkyl, alkoxyl, dialkylamino, acyl, acylamino, nitro or hydroxyl radical, and R.sub.3 is a hydrogen or halogen atom, or alkyl, alkoxyl, nitro, carboxyl, alkylcarboxyl, dialkylcarbamoyl, sulfonic acid, dialkylaminosulfonyl, alkylsulfonyl or acyl radical or a group of the formula (II), (III), (IV) or (V): ##STR2## in which formula X is an --O-- bonding or --NH-- bonding.[B] is a benzene ring or naphthalene ring, and R.sub.4 and R.sub.

Abstract: Baked novolak resin based positive photoresists are either developed after exposure or stripped, following the use of the pattern resist layer as an etch mask, in aqueous solutions of a combination of permanganate and phosphoric acid.

Abstract: A positive photoresist having increased sensitivity to light and formed by the addition of an acidic compound to a 1,2-quinone-diazide sulphonic acid ester sensitizer.

Abstract: Positive photoresist layers including a base soluble resin and a diazo ketone sensitizer are treated with hydrogen ion following initial exposure to achieve changes in the developed resist profile and/or development in a negative mode.

Abstract: A photosensitive color-forming element comprises a support and a photosensitive color-forming layer carried on the support and containing therein a color-forming coupler, for example, 1-naphthol, 2-naphthol and 2,4-dichloro-1-naphthol, and a photosensitive azido compound of the formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen or halogen atom or an alkyl, alkoxyl, diethylamino or hydroxyl radical R.sub. 2 an alkyl, alkoxyl or hydroxyl radical, and R.sub.3 a hydrogen atom or an alkyl or phenyl radical, and, if necessary, a polymeric material capable of hardening or being insolubilized in solvent when the polymeric material is exposed to radiation rays in the presence of the above azido compound, the above-mentioned azido compound and color-forming coupler being capable of forming a dark color upon exposure to radiation rays, without a color-developing agent.

Abstract: Copolymers of glycidyl acrylate and allyl glycidyl ether and terpolymers derived from addition of glycidyl methacrylate to the polymerizable mixture, having an inherent viscosity within the range of about 0.09 to 0.28 and an epoxy equivalent of at least about 0.64 per 100 g. of polymer are provided which upon admixture with a catalyst which is a radiation-sensitive aryldiazonium salt of a complex halogenide, provides compositions suitable for use in a dry photopolymer positive imaging process. In the process, the polymer which is non-tacky at room temperature, together with the catalyst is applied to a substrate and exposed to an energy source for example, electromagnetic radiation through a transparency or mask. Following exposure, the coating is heated to the softening point of the unexposed portion of the coating and a powder or toner is applied thereto, the toner being adhered to only the tacky, non-exposed area of the coating, resulting in a pigmented image.

Abstract: Plastic pigment spheric particles which form a matrix for diazotype reproduction materials are applied to a base sheet. Whether the diazo sensitizing solution is included in admixture with spheric plastic pigment particles or is applied thereafter as a second coating, a matrix is formed having a sensitized diazo layer dispersed throughout. Such diazo matrices permit control of contrast ratios over a wide range. Also such diazo matrices are transferable. The diazo matrix image can be made water fast by an after treatment by means of a solvent. Such a matrix lends itself to the heat development process by retaining the heat generated development agents within the matrix due to its thermoplastic character. In another aspect of the invention multi-color diazo reproduction on a single base sheet employing consecutive overcoatings of the matrix and diazo sensitizing solution after each development can be achieved.

Abstract: Non-conductive real images are formed on substrates by depositing reducible metal salt compositions thereon from an aqueous acidic solution of pH 1.5-5 containing bromide ions and exposing the coated substrates to radiant energy to reduce the metal salt to metallic nuclei and to produce a real image of metal, which is intensified and built up by electroless metal deposition. The metal salt composition can either be selectively deposited and then exposed, or uniformly deposited and then selectively exposed, to produce the real image.

Abstract: Sensitizing processes and the resulting new articles of manufacture, suitable for the production of metallized bodies, such as printed circuits, dials, nameplates, metallized plastics, glass, ceramics and the like, comprising bases coated with a halide containing aqueous sensitizing solution of pH 1.5-4.0 that deposits a layer of copper, nickel, cobalt or iron salts or salt compositions, which on exposure to radiant energy, such as heat, light, etc., is converted to a layer of metal nuclei which is non-conductive, but which is capable of catalyzing the deposition of metal onto the base from an electroless metal deposition solution in contact with the metal nuclei.

Abstract: An improvement is provided in processes wherein an oxidation-reduction reaction is utilized to form an image. In one aspect of this invention, the improvement comprises employing an oxidizing agent and a reducing agent which undergo imagewise redox reaction in the presence of catalytic material, the oxidizing agent and the reducing agent being so chosen that the reaction products are noncatalytic for the oxidation-reduction reaction. In another aspect of this invention, a substitution inert metal complex is utilized as the oxidant in oxidation-reduction, image-forming processes. Novel processing compositions and photographic materials are also described.

Abstract: A diazo recording process which comprises the steps of (1) information-wise exposing to ultra-violet light and (2) overall heating a recording material comprising a compound yielding an amine on heating, an ultra-violet light-sensitive diazo compound and a coupling component capable of yielding a dyestuff by reaction with unaffected diazo compound when heating said material and wherein the compound yielding an amine on heating corresponds with the following general formula: ##EQU1## in which: R.sub.1 represents1. an aliphatic group or a cycloaliphatic group,2. an aryl group,3. a heterocyclic group, or4. an acyl group,R.sub.2 represents an aliphatic group or a cycloaliphatic group,R.sub.3 represents1. hydrogen,2. an aliphatic group including a cycloaliphatic group, orR.sub.3 and R.sub.2 form together part of a heterocyclic ring.

Abstract: An improved process for the diazo-type multicolor reproduction which can give multicolored copies excellent in the hue separation and can increase the number of copies obtained from an original treated with a color-forming agent is disclosed. This improved multicolor reproduction process is characterized by the use of a color-forming composition comprising a thermo-volatile or sublimable coupler and at least one hue separation-improving agent selected from polyalkylene oxides and polyalkylene oxide derivatives which are solid under normal conditions and fatty acid derivatives having a melting point of at least 100.degree.C.

Abstract: Images are recorded on ultraviolet-light sensitive recording materials employing photographic intermediates which function optically to reflect visible light and transmit ultraviolet light. To give the intermediates the desired optical function, a polyolefin compounded with certain white pigments is included as a sublayer between the paper support sheet and photosensitive layer.

Abstract: A method for modifying vesicular images into non-scattering images is provided, which comprises opening the closed bubbles of the vesicular image to form an open-bore image by allowing at least one organic solvent which attacks the thermoplastic bubble walls of the vesicular image to act on the latter, optionally making the image wettable with a surfactant introducing the image substance into the open pores by treatment with a solution or dispersion of the image substance and, optionally removing any remaining gas bubbles or pores by heat or solvent treatment.

Abstract: An original-treating agent to be used in the process for the diazo-type multi-color reproduction by which portions of a sensitive paper corresponding to preselected portions of an original can be colored selectively in different hues.

Abstract: A light-sensitive diazotype material comprising a base support having a coating thereon which comprises a light-sensitive diazonium compound and a coupling component having the general formula ##SPC1##Wherein R is hydrogen, a lower alkyl radical, halogen or aryl, and R' is hydrogen or SO.sub.3 M wherein M is a monovalent cation.

Abstract: A diazotype material is disclosed containing a novel 2-substituent-3-thio-5-alkoxybenzene diazonium compound of formula I ##SPC1##whereinX is an anion,A is the group ##EQU1## or -- OR.sub.4 in whichR.sub.1 is hydrogen, an alkyl radical with 1-8 carbon atoms, a substituted phenyl, cycloalkyl, or aralkyl radical or a heterocyclic radical,R.sub.2 is an alkyl radical with 1-8 carbon atoms, a --COOR.sub.5 group in whichR.sub.5 signifies hydrogen, an alkyl radical with 1-8 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl, aryl, aralkyl, or alkylaryl radical or a heterocyclic radical, or a group of ##EQU2## in which R.sub.6 and R.sub.7 stand independently of one another for hydrogen or a hydroxy, alkoxy, alkyl with 1-4 carbon atoms, or phenyl radical,R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together with the nitrogen may be a morpholino, a methyl-substituted morpholino, pyrrolidino, or piperidino group,R.sub.3 is an alkyl radical with 1-8 carbon atoms, an aralkyl, alkoxyaryl, haloaryl, alkoxyalkyl, or cycloalkyl radical or a heterocyclic radical, andR.sub.

Abstract: An improvement is provided in processes wherein an oxidation-reduction reaction is utilized to form an image. In one aspect of this invention, the improvement comprises employing an oxidizing agent and a reducing agent which undergo imagewise redox reaction in the presence of catalytic material, the oxidizing agent and the reducing agent being so chosen that the reaction products are noncatalytic for the oxidation-reduction reaction. In another aspect of this invention, a substitution inert metal complex is utilized as the oxidant in oxidation-reduction image-forming processes. Novel processing compositions and photographic materials are also described. In a specific aspect, this divisional application relates to processes for tanning a crosslinkable colloid with the reaction products of the above redox reaction.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a light-sensitive copying layer containing an ester or an amide of an o-naphthoquinone diazide sulfonic acid or carboxylic acid together with an organic dyestuff and which changes its color shade upon exposure to light, the improvement comprising that it contains, calculated on its total content of o-naphthoquinone diazide compounds, 10 to 75 per cent by weight of a halide of o-naphthoquinone diazide-4-sulfonic acid and, as the dyestuff, an organic compound capable of salt formation in a quantity of 1 to 50 per cent by weight, calculated on the same basis.

Abstract: Photosensitive compositions which include a homogeneous mixture ofA. at least one diazonium salt which is photodecomposable into phenol;B. at least one spiropyran compound which is photodecomposable into mercocyanine; and optionallyC. a material which is normally solid at ambient temperatures and has a melting point no higher than about 150.degree.C and which when in the molten state is a solvent for the phenol and merocyanine compounds from (a) and (b), above.The merocyanine and phenol form colored complexes when reacted in the molten or dissolved state.The photosensitive compositions of the present invention can be used for preparing reproductions of original transparencies containing image areas and non-image transparent areas as positives or negatives thereof and in colors ranging from blue-black, blue, green, red, orange, brown and colors in between.

Abstract: A pattern capable of reducing thereon a precious metal is generated on a suitable substrate by first coating selected portions of the substrate with a solution, called a photopromoter, which contains a metal salt. The metal salt possesses two characteristics:(a) the oxidation state of the salt (i.e., of the metal ion) is alterable (either increasable or decreasable) by exposure of the salt to radiation of the proper wavelength; and(b) in either the original or the altered oxidation state (but not in both states) the salt is capable of reducing a precious metal, e.g., a metal of the platinum group such as palladium, platinum or rhodium, from a salt thereof.The photopromoter-coated substrate is next selectively exposed to the proper wavelength radiation to produce a pattern of the photopromoter salt capable of reducing the precious metal. The remainder of the salt is incapable of reducing the precious metal.