Photographic process and product

Claim 1

IN A PHOTOGRAPHIC SILVER HALIDE TRANSFER PROCESS, THE STEPS WHICH COMPRISE FORMING A LAYER OF AN ALKALINE SOLUTION OF A SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPER AND A SILVER HALIDE TRANSFER AGENT BETWEEN ONE FACE OF A PRINT-RECEIVING ELEMENT AND ONE FACE OF A PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT LOCATED IN SUPERPOSED RELATION TO THE PRINT-RECEIVING ELEMENT, SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT BEING PHOTOEXPOSED TO PROVIDE A LATENT IMAGE, SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT COMPRISING A PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM SUPPORT COMPOSED OF A PAPER MATERIAL, A STRATUM OF MATERIAL CONTAINING A FILM-FORMING POLYMERIC ACID, THE LAST-MENTIONED MATERIAL BEING SUBSTANTIALLY WATER IMPERMEABLE BUT PERMEABLE TO ALKALINE LIQUIDS AND BEING CARRIED BY ONE SIDE OF SAID SUPPORT AND A PHOTOEXPOSED SILVER HALIDE STRATUM CARRIED BY THE SURFACE OF THE WATERIMPERMEABLE BUT ALKALI-PERMEABLE STRATUM FURTHEST FROM SAID SUPPORT, ABSORBING SAID SOLUTION INTO SAID SILVER HALIDE STRATUM AND THROUGH SAID SILVER HALIDE STRATUM AND INTO THE STRATUM OF SAID WATER-IMPERMEABLE AND ALKALIPERMEABLE MATERIAL, AND, AS A RESULT OF SAID ABSORPTION, INCREASING THE RATE SAND THE AMOUNT OF THE REDUCTION OF THE THICKNESS OF SAID LAYER OF SOLUTION, BY MEANS OF SAID SOLUTION PRESENT IN SAID SILVER HALIDE STRATUM, DEVELOPING LATENT IMAGE SILVER HALIDE TO SILVER AND FORMING SILVER COMPLEXES SOLUBLE AND TRANSFERABLE IN SAID SOLUTION FROM SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT BY DIFFUSION FROM SAID PHOTOSENSIELEMENT, TRANSFERRING SAID SILVER COMPLEXES TOWARD SAID PRINT-RECEIVING ELEMENT BY DIFFUSION FROM SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, AND REDUCING SAID SILVER COMPLEXES TO SILVER ADJACENT THE SAID FACE OF SAID PRINT-RECEIVING ELEMENT TO PROVIDE A REVERSE IMAGE OF THE LATENT IMAGE FORMED IN SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE ELEMENT, SAID STRATUM OF MATERIAL WHICH IS WATER-IMPERMEABLE BUT PERMEABLE TO ALKALINE LIQUIDS COMPRISING CELLULOSE ACETATE HYDROGEN PHTHALATE.