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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. 24, 2000
Filed:
May. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Agfa-Gevaert N.V., , BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430393 ; 430430 ; 430432 ; 430943 ;
Abstract
A process for processing exposed photographic silver halide materials at least comprising the stages color development, stopping, bleaching and fixing using a bleaching bath with hydrogen peroxide as the active substance, characterized in that the stop bath contains as a buffer agent at least one carboxylic acid of the formulae I to VIII ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 to R.sub.5 mutually independently mean hydrogen, --OH, --COOM, --SO.sub.3 M, --PO(OM).sub.2, an optionally substituted alkyl residue, an optionally substituted aryl residue, an optionally substituted amino residue or a heterocyclic residue and