Ciba-geigy Ag

Samuel B Kingston

Stephen R Postle

Terence C Webb

Graham Evans

Peter A Lovell

A photochromic assembly is produced by coating onto a self-supporting flexible plastics material a polymer latex comprising from 10 to 40% by weight to the total solids of the latex photochromic glass beads from 0.05 .mu.m to 50 .mu.m in size.

Photochromic assembly comprising photochromic glass beads in polymer

Photographic material containing on a support at least one silver halide emulsion layer which contains as binders both gelatin and a polymer latex, wherein the particle size is less than 0.05 .mu.m, and which is obtained by emulsion polymerizing a monomer or monomer mixture which consists of an alkyl acrylate or an alkyl methacrylate or a monomer mixture comprising both an alkyl acrylate and an alkyl methacrylate or a mixture comprising an alkyl acrylate and/or an alkyl methacrylate together with up to 5% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated copolymerizable acid and/or up to 30% by weight of other ethylenically unsaturated comonomers in the presence of at least 12% by weight of the monomers present of an anionic surfactant at a temperature of from 15.degree. C. to 90.degree. C. by use of a redox initiator system which is present to the extent of from 0.1% to 3% by weight of the monomers present. The latexes are of use to partially replace gelatin in photographic materials. These latex/gelatin binders are suitable for highspeed coating and drying processes and confer to the photographic materials an increased dimensional stability.

Photographic material and a process for its manufacture

Process for the preparation of a photographic material comprising in at least one layer photographic useful compounds, e.g. color couplers or developers, which are occluded into solid polymer particles of 0.1 to 0.5 .mu.m in size.

Process for the preparation of photographic materials

A photochromic assembly is produced by coating onto a self-supporting flexible plastics material a polymer latex comprising from 10 to 40% by weight of the total solids of the latex photochromic glass beads from 0.05 .mu.m to 50 .mu.m in size.

Photochromic assembly and manufacture of this assembly

Photochromic paint comprising a latex of an acrylate and/or a methacrylate polymer, the polymer particles of which constitutes 30 to 50% by weight of the latex and which has been prepared using a copolymerizable surfactant, there being dispersed in the latex photochromic glass beads of from 0.05 to 1.00 .mu.m in size and which comprises from 10 to 30% by weight of the latex, the total solids content of the latex being from 40 to 60% by weight. The paint may be coated on to any surface which will accept a water-based paint.

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Doddinghurst, United Kingdom

Samuel B Kingston