Photographic process for speeding development using electric current

Claim 1

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS COMPRISING THE STEPS OF SPREADING, IN A THIN LAYER, BETWEEN A FIRST STRATUM COMPOSED OF AN EXPOSED SILVER HALIDE MATERIAL HAVING THEREIN A LATENT IMAGE AND A SECOND IMAGE RECEIVING STRATUM, AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE PROCESS COMPOSITION FOR DEVELOPING SAID EXPOSED SILVER HALIDE MATERIAL TO PRODUCE AN IMAGEWISE DISTRIBUTION OF IMAGE-FORMING COMPONENTS, THERE BEING A PAIR OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS AT SEPARATED EXTREMITIES OF AT LEAST ONE OF THE CONTIGUOUS FACES OF THE STRATA IN ELECTRICAL CONTACT WITH A PART OF SAID PROCESSING COMPOSITION, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY APPLYING A VOLTAGE ACROSS SAID PAIR OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBERS TO THEREBY CAUSE AN ELECTRIC CURRENT TO FLOW THROUGH SAID LAYER BETWEEN THE MEMBERS OF SAID PAIR AND REACTING SAID PROCESSING COMPOSITION WITH SAID SILVER HALIDE MATERIAL, AND THEREAFTER TRANSFERRING SAID IMAGE-FORMING COMPONENTS TO SAID IMAGE-RECEIVING STRATUM TO FORM A VISIBLE IMAGE THEREIN, SAID PROCESSING COMPOSITION HAVING A VALUE OF ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE SO RELATED TO THE MAGNITUDE OF SAID