Eastman-kodak Company

Jack Hayward

Gerald G Reafler

James R Schuler

Stephen M Neumann

Michael W Orem

Dennis Roland Fronheiser

Richard W Wheeler

This invention relates to a dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising an image dye dispersed in a binder, and wherein the binder has been coated from an aqueous solution and consists essentially of a hydrophilic polymer, said element also having thereon at least one underlayer consisting of a swellable polymer located between said support and said dye layer.

Underlayer of dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer systems

Polymeric films of two or more layers are cocast on a moving substrate from a die having extrusion slots which extend to parallel slot exits spaced close to the substrate. An upstream slot exit has outer and inner lips formed by coplanar lands. The outer upstream land extends to a pinning line formed by the intersection with an outer surface of the die. A downstream slot exit also has lips formed by planar lands and the outer land of the downstream slot exit is spaced a greater distance from the substrate than the other lands. Films with a plurality of uniform layers of different thicknesses are cocast from dopes of different viscosities.

Apparatus and method for cocasting film layers

A tie-coat composition for preparing paint-coated, stretchable polyester which can be bonded to automobile panels. The tie-coat contains a non-ionic, fluorinated surfactant which reduces product non-uniformities.

Adhesion promoting composition and coated film

A latex paint containing water and one or more higher boiling organic solvents is coated on a carrier film and dried by a process which yields a dried paint layer free of bubble defects. The film is passed continuously through a series of at least three drying stages in contact with warm, moderately humid air and more than half of the heat required for evaporation is supplied to the underside of the film. Drying conditions in at least each of the first three stages are controlled to maintain a film temperature profile which causes the water to evaporate at a moderate rate but more rapidly than the organic solvents, thus achieving coalescence of the paint and avoiding the trapping of liquids in a surface-hardened paint layer.

Drying process

A process for continuous coating of a reactive clearcoat composition on a painted-coated moving plastic film web by means of a laminar flow extrusion coating hopper wherein the reactive components of the composition are fed continuously to a mixing zone and mixed shortly before the composition is coated on the film surface.

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Hilton, NY, United States of America

Jack Hayward