N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone scavenger compounds

Claim 2

In a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material which produces an imagewise distribution of diffusible dye in the areas where said silver halide is developed, the improvement wherein said element contains an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound.

Claim 3

The photographic element of claim 1 wherein said compound has the following formula: ##STR8## wherein: R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group.

Claim 4

The photographic element of claim 2 wherein said compound is located in said silver halide emulsion layer.

Claim 5

The photographic element of claim 2 wherein said compound is located in a layer with said dye image-providing material.

Claim 6

The photographic element of claim 2 wherein said dye image-providing material is a ballasted, redox-dye-releasing compound.

Claim 7

The photographic element of claim 5 wherein said dye-releasing compound is a p-sulfonamidonaphthol.

Claim 8

The photographic element of claim 2 wherein R is a methyl group.

Claim 9

In a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material, the improvement wherein said element also contains in an interlayer between said emulsion layers having the following formula: ##STR9## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing material.

Claim 10

In a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material, the improvement wherein said element also contains in an interlayer between said emulsion layers having the following formula: ##STR9## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing material.

Claim 11

The photographic element of claim 8 wherein each said Ball is ##STR10##

Claim 12

In a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, cyan dye image-providing material associated therewith, an interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, magenta dye image-providing material associated therewith, an interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, yellow dye image-providing material associated therewith, the improvement wherein each said interlayer comprises a compound having the following formula: ##STR11## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positve integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing materials.

Claim 13

In a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, cyan dye image-providing material associated therewith, an interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, magenta dye image-providing material associated therewith, an interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, yellow dye image-providing material associated therewith, the improvement wherein each said interlayer comprises a compound having the following formula: ##STR11## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positve integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing materials.

Claim 14

The photographic element of claim 10 wherein said dye image-providing material is a ballasted, redox-dye-releasing compound.

Claim 15

The photographic element of claim 11 wherein said dye-releasing compound is a p-sulfonamidonaphthol.

Claim 16

The photographic element of claim 10 wherein R 1 is a methyl group.

Claim 17

The photographic element of claim 13 wherein each said Ball is ##STR12##

Claim 18

In a photographic assemblage to be processed by an alkaline processing composition, said assemblage comprising: (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material which produces an imagewise distribution of diffusible dye in the areas where said silver halide is developed; and (b) a dye image-receiving layer; the improvement wherein said photographic assemblage contains an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound.

Claim 19

In a photographic assemblage to be processed by an alkaline processing composition, said assemblage comprising: (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material which produces an imagewise distribution of diffusible dye in the areas where said silver halide is developed; and (b) a dye image-receiving layer; the improvement wherein said photographic assemblage contains an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound.

Claim 20

In a photographic assemblage comprising: (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material which produces an imagewise distribution of diffusible dye in the areas where said silver halide is developed; (b) a dye image-receiving layer; and (c) an alkaline processing composition and means containing same for discharge within said assemblage; said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent; the improvement wherein said photographic assemblage contains an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound.

Claim 21

In a photographic assemblage comprising: (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material which produces an imagewise distribution of diffusible dye in the areas where said silver halide is developed; (b) a dye image-receiving layer; and (c) an alkaline processing composition and means containing same for discharge within said assemblage; said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent; the improvement wherein said photographic assemblage contains an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound.

Claim 22

The photographic assemblage of claim 16 wherein said compound has the following formula: ##STR13## wherein: R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group.

Claim 23

The photographic assemblage of claim 17 wherein said compound is located in said silver halide emulsion layer.

Claim 24

The photographic assemblage of claim 17 wherein said compound is located in a layer with said dye image-providing material.

Claim 25

The photographic assemblage of claim 17 wherein said dye image-providing material is a ballasted, redox-dye-releasing compound.

Claim 26

The photographic assemblage of claim 20 wherein said dye-releasing compound is a p-sulfonamido-naphthol.

Claim 27

The photographic assemblage of claim 17 wherein R is methyl.

Claim 28

In a photographic assemblage comprising: (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material; (b) a dye image-receiving layer; and (c) an alkaline processing composition and means containing same for discharge within said assemblage; said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent; the improvement wherein said element also contains in an interlayer between said emulsion layers a compound having the following formula: ##STR14## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing material.

Claim 29

In a photographic assemblage comprising: (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material; (b) a dye image-receiving layer; and (c) an alkaline processing composition and means containing same for discharge within said assemblage; said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent; the improvement wherein said element also contains in an interlayer between said emulsion layers a compound having the following formula: ##STR14## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing material.

Claim 30

The photographic assemblage of claim 23 wherein each said Ball is ##STR15##

Claim 31

The photographic assemblage of claim 23 wherein: (a) said dye image-receiving layer is located between said support and said silver halide emulsion layers; and (b) said assemblage also includes a transparent cover sheet over the layer outermost from said support.

Claim 32

The photographic assemblage of claim 25 wherein said cover sheet has thereon, in sequence, a neutralizing layer and a timing layer.

Claim 33

The photographic assemblage of claim 26 wherein said discharging means is a rupturable container containing said alkaline processing composition and an opacifying agent, said container being so positioned during processing of said assemblage that a compressive force applied to said container will effect a discharge of the container's contents between said transparent sheet and the layer outermost from said support.

Claim 34

The photographic assemblage of claim 23 wherein said support having thereon said photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers is opaque and said dye image-receiving layer is located on a separate transparent support superposed over the layer outermost from said opaque support.

Claim 35

The photographic assemblage of claim 28 wherein said transparent support has thereon, in sequence, a neutralizing layer, a timing layer and said dye image-receiving layer.

Claim 36

In a photographic assemblage comprising: (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, cyan dye image-providing material, an interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, magenta dye image-providing material, an interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, yellow dye image-providing material; (b) a dye image-receiving layer; and (c) an alkaline processing composition and means containing same for discharge within said assemblage; said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent; the improvement wherein each said interlayer comprises a compound having the formula: ##STR16## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing materials.

Claim 37

In a photographic assemblage comprising: (a) a photographic element comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, cyan dye image-providing material, an interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, magenta dye image-providing material, an interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, yellow dye image-providing material; (b) a dye image-receiving layer; and (c) an alkaline processing composition and means containing same for discharge within said assemblage; said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent; the improvement wherein each said interlayer comprises a compound having the formula: ##STR16## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing materials.

Claim 38

In an integral photographic assemblage comprising: (a) a photosensitive element comprising a transparent support having thereon the following layers in sequence: a dye image-receiving layer, an alkaline solution-permeable, light-reflective layer, an alkaline solution-permeable, opaque layer, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, cyan dye image-providing material, an interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, magenta dye image-providing material, an interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, yellow dye image-providing material; (b) a transparent sheet superposed over said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and comprising a transparent support having thereon, in sequence, a neutralizing layer and a timing layer; and (c) a rupturable container containing an alkaline processing composition and an opacifying agent which is so positioned during processing of said assemblage that a compressive force applied to said container will effect a discharge of the container's contents between said transparent sheet and said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent; the improvement wherein each said interlayer comprises a compound having the formula: ##STR17## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing compositon; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing materials.

Claim 39

In an integral photographic assemblage comprising: (a) a photosensitive element comprising a transparent support having thereon the following layers in sequence: a dye image-receiving layer, an alkaline solution-permeable, light-reflective layer, an alkaline solution-permeable, opaque layer, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, cyan dye image-providing material, an interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, magenta dye image-providing material, an interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, yellow dye image-providing material; (b) a transparent sheet superposed over said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and comprising a transparent support having thereon, in sequence, a neutralizing layer and a timing layer; and (c) a rupturable container containing an alkaline processing composition and an opacifying agent which is so positioned during processing of said assemblage that a compressive force applied to said container will effect a discharge of the container's contents between said transparent sheet and said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; said assemblage containing a silver halide developing agent; the improvement wherein each said interlayer comprises a compound having the formula: ##STR17## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing compositon; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing materials.

Claim 40

In a process for producing a photographic image in color in an imagewise-exposed photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material which produces an imagewise distribution of diffusible dye in the areas where said silver halide is developed, said process comprising: treating said element with an alkaline processing composition in the presence of a silver halide developing agent to effect development of each exposed silver halide emulsion layer, whereby: (a) an imagewise distribution of said dye is formed as a function of said development of said silver halide emulsion layer; and (b) at least a portion of said imagewise distribution of said dye diffuses out of said element, the improvement wherein said process is performed in the presence of an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound.

Claim 41

In a process for producing a photographic image in color in an imagewise-exposed photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material which produces an imagewise distribution of diffusible dye in the areas where said silver halide is developed, said process comprising: treating said element with an alkaline processing composition in the presence of a silver halide developing agent to effect development of each exposed silver halide emulsion layer, whereby: (a) an imagewise distribution of said dye is formed as a function of said development of said silver halide emulsion layer; and (b) at least a portion of said imagewise distribution of said dye diffuses out of said element, the improvement wherein said process is performed in the presence of an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound.

Claim 42

The process of claim 32 wherein said compound has the following formula: ##STR18## wherein: R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group.

Claim 43

The process of claim 33 wherein said imagewise distribution of said dye diffuses to a dye image-receiving layer.

Claim 44

The process of claim 33 wherein said compound is located in said silver halide emulsion layer.

Claim 45

The process of claim 33 wherein said compound is located in a layer with said dye image-providing material.

Claim 46

The process of claim 33 wherein said dye image-providing material is a ballasted, redox-dye-releasing compound.

Claim 47

The process of claim 37 wherein said dye-releasing compound is a p-sulfonamidonaphthol.

Claim 48

The process of claim 33 wherein R is a methyl group.

Claim 49

The process of claim 33 wherein said photographic element comprises a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, cyan dye image-providing material associated therewith, an interlayer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, magenta dye image-providing material associated therewith, an interlayer, and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a negative-working, yellow dye image-providing material associated therewith, and said compound is located in each said interlayer.

Claim 50

In a process for producing a photographic image in color in an imagewise-exposed photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material, said process comprising: treating said element with an alkaline processing composition in the presence of a silver halide developing agent to effect development of each exposed silver halide emulsion layer, whereby: (a) an imagewise distribution of said dye is formed as a function of said development of said silver halide emulsion layer; and (b) at least a portion of said imagewise distribution of said dye diffuses out of said element, the improvement wherein said process is performed in the presence of an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound which is located in said element in an interlayer between said emulsion layers, said compound having the following formula: ##STR19## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing material.

Claim 51

In a process for producing a photographic image in color in an imagewise-exposed photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least two photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each emulsion layer having associated therewith a negative-working, dye image-providing material, said process comprising: treating said element with an alkaline processing composition in the presence of a silver halide developing agent to effect development of each exposed silver halide emulsion layer, whereby: (a) an imagewise distribution of said dye is formed as a function of said development of said silver halide emulsion layer; and (b) at least a portion of said imagewise distribution of said dye diffuses out of said element, the improvement wherein said process is performed in the presence of an N-alkyl- or N-aryl-benzisoxazolone compound which is located in said element in an interlayer between said emulsion layers, said compound having the following formula: ##STR19## wherein: R 1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, or Ball; Ball is at least one organic ballasting radical of such molecular size and configuration as to render said compound nondiffusible in said photographic element during development in an alkaline processing composition; and n is a positive integer of 1 to 3, with the proviso that when n is 1, then R 1 is Ball, said compound being separate and distinct from said dye image-providing material.

Claim 52

The process of claim 41 wherein each said Ball is ##STR20##