Voided films of polyester with polyolefin particles
AssigneeImperial Chemical Industries PLC
InventorsCarl F. Mathews, Christopher Deverell, Gordon E. A. Pears, Peter G. Knowles
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Abstract
Opaque voided films having a total luminous transmission not exceeding 25% are made from blends of a polyester preferably polyethylene terephthalate, with 3 to 27% of an ethylene or propylene polymer, prepared by dry blending. One end use of the film, as a base for photographic prints is also described.
Claims7
A photographic print material, which comprises a support in the form of an opaque molecularly oriented and heat set film produced from a blend of particles of a linear polyester produced by condensing at least one dicarboxylic acid, a lower alkyl diester thereof or bis-p-carboxyphenoxyethane with at least one glycol and from 3 to 27% by weight of particles of a homopolymer or copolymer of ethylene or propylene sufficient to increase the opacity of the resulting film, the homopolymer or copolymer being dispersed in the form of discrete particles throughout the oriented and heat set film, said support including voids between the regions of the linear polyester and the homopolymer or copolymer of ethylene or propylene sufficient to give said support a total luminous transmission not in excess of 20%, said support carrying a photosensitive silver halide-containing gelatinous layer.
A photographic print material, which comprises a support in the form of an opaque molecularly oriented and heat set film produced from a blend of particles of a linear polyester produced by condensing at least one dicarboxylic acid, a lower alkyl diester thereof or bis-p-carboxyphenoxyethane with at least one glycol and from 3 to 27% by weight of particles of a homopolymer of ethylene or propylene, the homopolymer being dispersed in the form of discrete particles throughout the oriented and heat set film, said support including voids between the regions of the linear polyester and the homopolymer sufficient to give said support a total luminous transmission not in excess of 20%, said support carrying a photosensitive silver halide-containing gelatinous layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.