EP0524414A1 - Méthode de traitement photographique et appareil - Google Patents

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EP0524414A1
EP0524414A1 EP92109877A EP92109877A EP0524414A1 EP 0524414 A1 EP0524414 A1 EP 0524414A1 EP 92109877 A EP92109877 A EP 92109877A EP 92109877 A EP92109877 A EP 92109877A EP 0524414 A1 EP0524414 A1 EP 0524414A1
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    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03CPHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C5/00Photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents
    • G03C5/26Processes using silver-salt-containing photosensitive materials or agents therefor
    • G03C5/395Regeneration of photographic processing agents other than developers; Replenishers therefor
    • G03C5/3958Replenishment processes or compositions, i.e. addition of useful photographic processing agents
    • GPHYSICS
    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03CPHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES; PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, e.g. CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN PHOTOGRAPHY
    • G03C5/00Photographic processes or agents therefor; Regeneration of such processing agents
    • G03C5/26Processes using silver-salt-containing photosensitive materials or agents therefor
    • G03C5/29Development processes or agents therefor
    • G03C5/31Regeneration; Replenishers
    • GPHYSICS
    • G03PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03DAPPARATUS FOR PROCESSING EXPOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
    • G03D3/00Liquid processing apparatus involving immersion; Washing apparatus involving immersion
    • G03D3/02Details of liquid circulation
    • G03D3/06Liquid supply; Liquid circulation outside tanks
    • G03D3/065Liquid supply; Liquid circulation outside tanks replenishment or recovery apparatus

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  • the invention relates to a photographic processing method with aqueous processing baths which are regenerated during processing.
  • the chemicals that are consumed by the chemical reactions in the development process are added to the processing baths.
  • the regenerators also compensate for the influence of atmospheric oxygen on reducing processing baths such as developers and reversing baths or for the influence of carbon dioxide on alkaline baths.
  • the amount of regeneration is generally proportional to the area of the processed photo materials.
  • the regenerators are aqueous solutions such as the processing baths ("working solutions") themselves and, to compensate for the activity of the working solutions, usually have a 20-100% higher concentration than the working solutions themselves.
  • regenerators are necessary in order to be able to work with low regeneration volumes and in order to maintain the working concentration, especially in baths into which the material is already wet, which would otherwise continuously decrease in continuous operation due to the water carried in by the photo material would.
  • the object of the invention is to avoid the problems associated with liquid regenerators without exchanging dust problems for them.
  • regenerator chemical for regenerating a working solution is added to it in the form of a large number of solid bodies of geometrically defined shape and of the same size and composition.
  • all inherently solid processing chemicals are added in this form to the working solution, several regeneration chemicals for one working solution being able to be brought together into a geometrically defined shape of the same size and composition.
  • the solid regenerates should not be too small or too large, because in the first case the dosage would be complex and in the second case the fluctuations in the chemical concentration in the working solution would be too large.
  • Volumes of the individual bodies can suitably be between 1 and 100, preferably 3 and 30 cm3.
  • Suitable geometric shapes are cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders and ellipsoids, of which e.g. in each case one for a specific regeneration chemical or regeneration chemical mixture is always selected in the same size.
  • the solid chemicals or chemical mixtures are pressed in suitable devices in suitable devices, if appropriate with the addition of a suitable binder.
  • chemical mixtures all compacts always have the same composition.
  • the processing device is expediently designed in such a way that, depending on the area of the processed material, the addition of the regenerator compacts with a defined shape, size and composition to the working solution is controlled, e.g. in that the compacts are arranged one above the other and are brought into a position by gravity from which they are conveyed into the working solution by means of an electrically operated pusher, or in that the compacts are arranged linearly and get into the working solution by a motor-controlled conveying step.
  • the compacts In order to prevent the usually existing pumping from being blocked, the compacts preferably first enter a collecting sieve which is below the level of the working solution in the balcony and through which the pumped-around working solution itself flows. This accelerates the dissolution on the one hand, and on the other hand suddenly prevents local increases in the chemical activities of the solutions from the solid chemicals.
  • the collecting sieve into which the compacts arrive, directly in the processing tank, preferably at one point the greatest possible distance from the material to be processed.
  • Another object of the invention is a device for processing photographic materials by means of processing solutions consisting of tanks containing the processing solutions and optionally a container attached to at least one tank at the level of the liquid of the processing solution in the tank and connected to the tank (“balcony") the tank contains conventional means of transport for the photographic material and the balcony contains means for pumping around the processing solution in the tank / balcony system, characterized in that means are provided in which pressings of regeneration chemicals are arranged in such a way that they are added one after the other into one Processing solution can be transported, e.g. vertically one above the other or horizontally next to each other, and means with which the compacts (e.g. one after the other) are conveyed into the processing solution.
  • This promotion can be controlled so that as many compacts per unit of time get into the working solution as are necessary to keep the chemical concentration of the processing solution constant.
  • Liquid processing chemicals continue to be metered in as liquids; in individual cases, however, they can be processed together with solid chemicals to form solid, non-adhesive compacts and used according to the invention.
  • Fig. 1 shows a sketch of a suitable device according to the invention.
  • Another container (2, "balcony”) is attached to the chemical tank (1), the content of which is connected to the content of the tank.
  • a pump (3) conveys the contents of the tank in the direction of the arrows through the balcony.
  • On the balcony (2) there is a device (4) in which there are cube-shaped compacts (5) of a photographic processing chemical or chemical mixture, which are conveyed by means of a conveying device (6) into the sieve (7) located in the balcony as required .
  • regenerator cubes were left open for 14 days. They were then dissolved in water, starters were added and the solution was used to process the photographic material. See table for result.
  • Color developer CD3 7 g sulfite 1.5 g Potash 30 g Nitrilotriacetic acid sodium (NTA) 3 g Water up to 1 l.
  • a commercial color paper goes through the following process in the context of photographic processing: developer 45 sec 33 ° C Watering 22.5 sec 25-35 ° C Bleach bath 45 sec 33 ° C Watering 22.5 sec 25-35 ° C Fixer 45 sec 33 ° C Washing drying. 45 sec 25-35 ° C
  • the bleaching bath has the following chemical composition: Ammonium bromide 100 g / l Sodium iron EDTA 50 g / l.
  • the bleach bath regenerator has double the concentration.
  • the regeneration rate is 60 ml / m2.
  • the tank volume of the bleach bath tank is 5 liters.
  • the overflow amount was measured at 5.5 liters.
  • Example 2a The procedure was as in Example 2a, but the regenerator was not metered in in liquid form, but rather as a pressed cube. Each cube had the following composition: 6.6 g Ammonium bromide 3.4 g Sodium iron EDTA
  • composition of the bleaching bath was again checked analytically: 102 g Ammonium bromide 52 g Sodium iron EDTA.
  • the overflow amount was measured at 570 ml.
  • the loss of liquid is compensated for by the amount of water carried in by the material from the previous washing and then carried back into the next bath (approx. 6 1/100 m2).
  • the overflow amount is thus reduced to about 1/10.

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