Photographic transfer processes and compositions for the practice of said processes

Claim 1

THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING TRANSFER PRINTS WHICH COMPRISES APPLYING A RELATIVELY THIN, DISCRETE LAYER OF A LIQUID PROCESSING COMPOSITION ON THE SURFACE OF A PHOTOSENSITIVE SILVER HALIDE ELEMENT CONTAINING A LATENT IMAGE, SAID COMPOSITION, WHEN APPLIED, INCLUDING A SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPER, A SILVER HALIDE SOLVENT, SOLID MINUTE PARTICLES OF A SUBSTANCE INSOLUBLE IN SAID COMPOSITION FOR ACCELERATING THE REDUCTION BY SAID DEVELOPER OF SILVER-BEARING IONS IN SOLUTION IN SAID COMPOSITION, AND A THICKENING AGENT INCREASING THE VISCOSITY OF SAID COMPOSITION SUFFICIENTLY TO KEEP SAID PARTICLES IN SUSPENSION, SAID THICKENING AGENT PROVIDING A SOLID FILM UPON THE REMOVAL OF THE LIQUID CONTENT OF SAID LAYER OF PROCESSING COMPOSITION, TRANSPORTING, BY ABSORPTION, PART AT LEAST ONE SAID COMPOSITION INTO THE SILVER HALIDE LAYER OF SAID ELEMENT, DEVELOPING THE LATENT IMAGE AND FORMING A SOLUBLE COMPLEX WITH UNDEVELOPED SILVER HALIDE IN A STRATUM OF THE SILVER HALIDE LAYER OF SAID ELEMENT PERMEATED BY THE LIQUID OF THE COMPOSITON, TRANSPORTING SAID SOLUBLE COMPLEX FROM SAID EMULSION TO THE FILM OF SAID THICKENING AGENT REMAINING ON SAID SURFACE, AND RAPIDLY PRECIPITATING SILVER FROM THE SOLUTION OF SAID COMPLEX TO FORM AN IMAGE IN SILVER IN SAID FILM WHICH IS THE POSITIVE OF THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE LATENT IMAGE.