Photographic processes for producing prints by transfer

Claim 1

A PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS FOR FORMING BY TRANSFER, A POSITIVE PRINT OF A LATEN IMAGE CONTAINED INTHE SILVER HALIDE EMULSION OF A PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT WHEREIN A SINGLE APPLCATION OF LIQUID TO SAID ELEMENT IS EFFECTIVE TO GIVE A FINISHED PRINT OF IMPROVED STABILITY, WHICH PROCEESS COMPRISES THE STEPS OF BRINGING AN ALKALINE PROCESSING COMPOSITION INTO CONTACT WITH THE PHOTSENSITIVE ELEMENT SO AS TO PERMEATE SAID EMULSION WITH THE LIQUID OF SIAD COMPOSITION, SAID COMPOSITION COMPRISING OF RELATIVELY VOLATILE ALIPHATIC AMINE AS ITS ALKALIZING AGENT, SAID AMINE HAVING A BOILING POINT LOWER THAN APPROXIMATELY 175* C., A ONE NORMAL SOLUTION OF SAID AMINE HAIVNG A PH IN EXCESS OF 10: PROVIDING A PRINT-RECEVING ELEMENT IN SUPERPOSED RELATION WITH THE PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT SO THAT THE PROCESSING COMPOSITION IS ESSENTIALLY CONFINED TO SAID SUPERPOSED ELEMENTS, SAID PROCESSING COMPOSITION CONTAINING, AFTER PERMEATION OF SAID SILVER HALIDE EMULSION, ALL OF THE REAGENTS, INCLUDING A SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPER, FOR DEVELOPING THE LATENT IMAGE IN THE SILVER HALIDE EMULSION AND FOR FORMING A POSITIVE PRINT OF THE SUBJECT MATTER OF SAID LATENT IMAGE UPOIN SAID PRINT-RECEIVEING ELEMENT, SAID DEVELOPER BEING CHARACTERIZED BY ITS PROPENSITY FOR OXIDIZING IN AN ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT TO FORM STAINS; RETAINING SAID PHOTSENSITIVE ELEMENT AND SAID PRINT-RECEIVING ELEMENT IN SUPERPOSED RELATIONSHIP UNTIL THE LATENT IMAGE IN THE SILVER HALIDE EMULSION IS DEVELOPED AND A POSITIOVE PRINT OF THE SUBJECT MATTER OF SAID LATENT IMAGE IS FORMED IN SAID PRINT-RECEIVING ELEMENT; AND STRIPPING SAID PRINT-RECEIVING ELEMENT WITH THE POSITIVE PRINT THEREON FROM SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, THEREBY PERMITTING THE UNEXHAUSTED VOLATILE AMINE TO EVAPORATE.