Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Fulvio Furlan

Domenico Marinelli

Renzo Torterolo

The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic material comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer comprises from 5 to 15% by weight of a water-soluble, electrically conductive copolymer (1) containing carboxylic groups and sulfonic groups and wherein a hydrophilic colloid layer comprising a combination of a fluorinated surfactant (2), a non-ionic polyoxyethylene surfactant (3) and an anionic polyoxyethylene surfactant (4) is coated on said at least one silver halide emulsion layer.

Silver halide photographic material having improved antistatic properties

A process of simultaneously applying multiple layers of hydrophilic colloidal aqueous coating compositions to a moving support with a multilayer bead coating apparatus, which comprises applying as the first layer next to the support an hydrophilic colloidal aqueous composition comprising a high molecular weight, highly deionized gelatin in which there are dispersed fine droplets of a high temperature boiling water immiscible organic solvent, and a multilayer silver halide photographic material comprising a support on which there are spread at least one silver halide photosensitive layer and at least one auxiliary layer, and said material further comprising, spread over said support under said layers, a hydrophilic colloidal layer comprising high molecular weight, highly deionized gelatin in which there are dispersed fine droplets of a high temperature boiling water immiscible organic solvent.

Process of simultaneously applying multiple layers of hydrophilic

A multilayer photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains dispersed in a hydrophilic colloid and at least one auxiliary hydrophilic colloid layer, said plurality of layers of different composition being simultaneously coated onto a hydrophobic support from aqueous hydrophilic colloid compositions, presents improved coating quality if at least one auxiliary hydrophilic colloid layer comprises a) an anionic surface active agent, b) at least one of betaine, N-oxide or amide surface active agent the and c) at least one of dispersed droplets of a water-immiscible high-boiling organic solvent, a vinyl addition polymer latex or a highly deionized gelatin. All the layers can be simultaneously coated from said different hydrophilic colloid aqueous compositions while maintaining a distinct layer relationship and avoiding any coating defects.

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Savona, Italy

Fulvio Furlan