Cloth and container for recording material using same

#1. Field of the Invention

#The present invention relates to a container for housing a light-sensitive material such as photographic printing paper, light-sensitive material for printing or color negative film for photography, as well as a light-insensitive recording material such as thermal transfer image receiving paper. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a cloth, and preferably a light-shielding cloth, that is provided on a slit-shaped opening of such a container housing a recording material, and particularly a light-sensitive material, which is inserted and taken out through the opening.

#2. Description of the Related Art

#FIG. 1 is a front view of one example of a shell-section-forming metal sheet in which light-shielding plush is affixed to both the right and left edges thereof using long lengths of the light-shielding plush of the present invention.

#FIG. 2 is a perspective view of one example of a shell-section-forming metal sheet provided with a step, preferably used when the long lengths of the light-shielding plush of the present invention both have a width of 8.8 to 9.7 mm.

#FIG. 3 is a cross section of one example of a photographic film cartridge using the shell-section-forming metal sheet with the light-shielding plush shown in FIG. 1.

#The cloth and, in particular, the light-shielding cloth of the present invention comprise a base fabric section (also called base fabric part’) and a pile section (also called ‘pile part’) formed from a pile incorporated into the base fabric section so that the pile section is formed from a dense erect pile having a uniform length. The pile here is formed from multi-filament. With regard to representative examples of the plush base fabric used in the present invention, there are those having a woven structure comprising a warp and a weft, those having a knitted structure comprising a chain thread and an inlay thread, and napped woven or knitted fabrics. In the present invention the base fabric preferably has a woven structure or a knitted structure, and most preferably a knitted structure.

#The base fabric side, that is, the reverse side of the base fabric of the plush of the present invention may be coated with a sealant. The sealant has an effect of preventing an adhesive from penetrating from the reverse side (coated side) to the surface, particularly when the adhesive has a low viscosity.

#Examples of the sealant include, as disclosed in JP-A-62-55699, JP-A-62-71949, JP-A-62-27733 and JP-A-2-72348, synthetic emulsions of polyvinyl, polyolefin, polyurethane, polyamide, polyester, synthetic rubber, epoxy, phenol, and other acrylics, blended emulsions of more than one type chosen from the above-mentioned synthetic emulsions, and copolymer emulsions obtained by combining the above-mentioned components. When the way in which the adhesive is soaked up into the light-shielding cloth can be adjusted by the adhesive alone, as disclosed in JP-B-5-88455 (JP-B denotes a Japanese examined patent application publication), it is unnecessary to apply the sealant, and this is preferred from the viewpoint of cost, simplicity of equipment, etc.