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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 27, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ; B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
503227 ; 8471 ; 428195 ; 428323 ; 428330 ; 428480 ; 428910 ; 428913 ; 428914 ;
Abstract
A thermal transfer printing (TTP) receiver sheet for use in association with a compatible donor sheet, comprises a supporting substrate having, on at least one surface thereof, (a) a dye-receptive receiving layer to receive a dye thermally transferred form the donor sheet, said receiver sheet additionally comprises, on at least one surface thereof, (b) an antistatic layer, said antistatic layer preferably being on a second surface of said substrate. The antistatic layer preferably comprises (a) a polychlorhydrin ether of an ethoxylated hydroxyamine and (b) a polyglycol amine, the total alkali metal consent of components (a) and (b) not exceeding 0.5% of the combined weight of (a) and (b).