Photopolymerization and stratum transfer process

Claim 1

A PROCESS OF PRODUCING A POLYMERIC PHOTOGRAPHIC TRANSFER IMAGE WHICH COMPRISES SUBJECTING TO A SINGLE IMAGEWISE EXPOSURE WITH ELECTROMAGNETICRADIATION HAVING A WAVE LENGTH EXTENDING FROM THE ULTRA-VIOLET THROUGH THE VISIBLE RANGE A RADIATION SENSITIVE LAYER COMPRISING A MONOMER CONTAING THE TERMINAL GROUPING CH2=C< WHICH IS ATTACHED TO AN ELECTRONEGATIVE GROUP, GELATIN, A RADIATION SENSITIVE STABILIZED AROMATIC DIAZONUIUM COMPOUND OF THE P-PHENYLENEDIAMINE SERIES IN AN AMOUNT RANGING FROM 0.01 TO 1.0 PERCENT BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF MONOMER, SAID LAYER HAVING BEEN TREATED PRIOR TO EXPOSURE WITH AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF AN ALKALINE REACTING SUBSTANCE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AMMONIA, PRIMARY SECONDARY AND TERTIARY AMINES, ALKALI METAL HYDROXIDES, ALKALI METAL CARBONATES, ALKALI METAL PHOSPHATES, AMMONIUM CARBONATE AND AMMONIUM PHOSPHATE IN AN AMOUNT SUFFCIENT TO CONVERT THE DIAZONIUM COMPOUND INTO THE CORRESPONDING DIAZOTATE, THEREBY CAUSING PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION IN THE EXPOSED AREAS; CONTACTING RAPIDLY AT ROOM TEMPERATURE THE SO-EXPOSED AND WETTED ALKALINE LAYER WITH A SUITABLE LAYER IN ORDER TO TRANSFER THE UNEXPOSED PORTIONS OF THE IMAGE TO THE RECEIVING LAYER, PEELING APART THE ORIGINAL LAYER AND THE RECEIVING LAYER, THEREBY FORMING A POSITIVE IMAGE ON THE RECEIVING LAYER.