Basic dye salts of polysulfonated phthalocyanines and process of producing the same

Claim 1

A PROCESS OF PRODUCING A DYE SALT HAVING HIGH SOLUBILITY IN GLYCOLIC SOLVENTS AND BEING ADAPTED FOR USE AS COLORING MATTER FOR BALL-PEN INKS, WHICH COMPRISES PRODUCING A TWO-PHASE MASS COMPRISING WATER AND A DYE SALT OF THE FOR Q-(SO3B)X, WHEREIN Q REPRESENTS THE RADICAL OF A PHTHALOCYANINE COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE, NICKEL PHTHALOCYANINE, COBALT PHTHALOCYANINE, HALOGENATED DERIVATIVES OF THESE THREE COMPOUNDS CONTAINING PER MOLECULE NOT MORE THAN ONE ATOM OF A HALOGEN FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF CHLORINE AND BROMINE, COPPER-TETRAAMINO PHTHALOCYANINE AND METAL-FREE PHTHALOCYANINE, X IS AN AVERAGE NUMBER HAVING A VALUE FROM 2 TO 4, AND B REPRESENTS A MOLECULE OF A BASIC DYE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF MALACHITE GREEN, CRYSTAL VIOLET, RHODAMINE 6G AND AURAMINE, SAID DYE SALT BEING IN MOLTEN STATE, AND THE TEMPERATURE OF THE ENTIRE MASS BEING BETWEEN 75* AND 100*C., SEPARATING SAID DYE SALT FROM THE AQUEOUS PHASE, DRYING THE SAME TO PRODUCE A BRITTLE DRY COLOR MASS, AND GRINDING SAID BRITTLE MASS TO SIZE WHICH WILL PASS THROUGH AN 80-MESH STANDARD SIEVE.