Electrophotographic sheet material employing a hydrophobic film support and hydrophilic layer

Abstract

Abstract Improved adherence is obtained for sheet material having a hydrophobic film support or base, such as a hydrophobic cellulose ester or poly ester, by the combination of a vinyl polymer subbing layer arranged directly on the hydrophobic support, the subbing layer being formed of a copolymer containing at least 45% by weight of vinylidene chloride and/or vinyl chloride monomer along with a minor amount of a hydrophilic vinyl monomer with the balance being constituted by any other vinyl monomer, and superimposed upon the vinyl subbing layer a layer containing a mixture of gelatin with a copolymer of butadiene and a vinyl monomer containing 30-70% by weight of butadiene, the ratio of the gelatin to the butadiene copolymer being in the range of 1:3 to 2:1 by weight. An additional layer can be applied over the gelatin/copolymer layer and constituted by such ingredients as are desirable for the particular utility of the resultuant sheet material, such as electrophotographic layers containing finely divided photoconductive material such as zinc oxide or some other photosensitive semi-conductive material, mat layers containing pigment, diffusion transfer layers containing development nuclei and so on. Alternately, the ingredients appropriate to some particular ultimate utility can be incorporated into the gelatin/butadiene copolymer layer directly.

Inventors

• 👤 Paesschen August Jean Van
• 👤 Gossum Lucien Janbaptist Van
• 👤 Jan Jozef Priem

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