US710019A - Photographic emulsion. - Google Patents

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PHOTOGRAPHIC EMULSION.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 710,019, dated September 30, 1902.

Application filed June 11, 1902. Serial No. 111,227. (No specimens.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, YORK SCHWARTZ, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, and a resident of 3 Edenstrasse, Hanover, in the Province of Hanover, German Empire, have invented a new and Improved Photographic Emulsion, of which the following is an exact specification.

It has been tried to use silver phosphate for manufacturing photographic emulsions Without using any halogenous silver compounds; but these trials have not been very successful, as in the photographs manufactured by means of such emulsions the gradations between the intense lights and the intense shadows are too small, so that the photographs are not brilliant enoughthat is to say, they are not sufticientlyrich in contrasts. I do away with this disadvantage by my new invention, which consists in emulsifying the silver phosphate in gelatin solutions in the presence of silver chlorate and silver citrate. Instead of citrate of silver silver tartrate can be used.

An excellent emulsion is obtained by mixing the following solutions: (A) 10.5 grains gelatin dissolved in eighty cubic centimeters distilled water; (B) 1.9 grains disodium phosphate, (Na HPO -l-12H O,) 0.6 grains potassium chlorate, 1.7 grains neutral potassium citrate, (K C H O +H O,) 0.4: grains citric acid dissolved in forty cubic centimeters distilled Water; (0) 5.2 grains crystallized silver nitrate dissolved in ten cubic centimeters distilled water. The mixing of this solution is effected in the following way: The solution B is added to the solution A. Then ten cubic centimeters of distilled water are added, whereupon solution Ois added in small quantities to the mixture of the solutions A and B, at the same time thoroughly shaking the mixture.

The above proportions are such that in the ready emulsion no free silver nitrate is contained.

The photographic papers prepared with this emulsion show the following excellent qualities: They are extremely durable and do not show any changes even after several months when kept in an open envelop without surrounding the same with a water-tight mate- The coating is so even and hard that even in summer-time the use of hardening substances is unnecessary. They give excellently-graded and permanent copies with beautiful and brilliant tones withoutbeing washed before toning in thewell-known gold and platinum baths. The finished pictures are very strong and resist mechanical effects as well as the effects of the atmosphere extremely well. Besides these advantages it is a further considerable advantage that it is not necessary to expose these papers under the negative up to the full power of the picture. It is only necessary to expose the same, according to the density of the negative, from twenty to thirty seconds to the action of the daylight in order to obtain a slightly-visible picture which in dull daylight or in the usual lamplight can be developed in a Very simple manner to any desired power.

The developer consists, for instance, of a solution of 0.16 grains of potassium bichromate and 0.1 grains of potassium bromid in five hundred cubic centimeters of distilled Waterto each fifty cubic centimeters, of which solution before using the same thirty drops of a solution of two per cent. of gallic acid in alcohol are added. v

After washing the so-developed pictures they are treated in the same manner as the pictures which were perfectly copied under the negative.

The sensitiveness to the action of the light of the paper is so great that the light of a magnesium strip of 2.5 centimeters length and three millimeters breadth which is burnedv at a distance of thirty centimeters from the copying-frame is sufficient for producing a picture which can be developed to the full extent.

It will be clear that the emulsions may be used for manufacturing any kind of sensitive films or surfaces for photographic purposes.

Having thus fully described the nature of this invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

A photographic emulsion, containing an emulsifying agent, silver phosphate, silver chlorate, and a silver salt of an organic acid, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

YORK SCHWARTZ.

Witnesses:

LoUIsE KNOKE, LEONORE RASOH, G. C. STEVENSON.