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US 6,673,505 B2Granted
Toner coagulant processes
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsLu Jiang, Armin R. Volkel, Chieh-Min Cheng, Michael A. Hopper, Walter Mychajlowskij, Raj D. Patel
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Abstract
A process for the preparation of a toner by mixing a colorant, a latex, optionally a wax and a polyamine salt coagulant to form toner size aggregates, wherein the polyamine salt is then neutralized or converted to an amide or hydrolyzed to an acid by the introduction of a base followed by a pH reduction with an acid to enable rapid coalescence or fusion of the aggregates.
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A process for the preparation of toner comprising
- (i) generating or providing a latex emulsion containing resin, water, and an ionic surfactant, and generating or providing a colorant dispersion containing colorant, water, and an ionic surfactant, or a nonionic surfactant;
- (ii) blending the latex emulsion with the colorant dispersion;
- (iii) adding to the resulting blend a coagulant of a polyamine salt of an acid wherein the salt is of an opposite charge polarity to that of the latex surfactant;
- (iv) heating the resulting mixture below or about equal to the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the latex resin;
- (v) optionally adding a second latex comprised of resin particles suspended in an aqueous phase resulting in a shell;
- (vi) adjusting with a base the pH to about 7 to about 9;
- (vii) heating the resulting mixture of (vi) above about the Tg of the latex resin;
- (viii) retaining the heating until the fusion or coalescence of resin and colorant is initiated;
- (ix) changing the pH of the above (viii) mixture with an acid to arrive at a pH of about 1.5 to about 3.5 to thereby accelerate the fusion or the coalescence and resulting in toner particles comprised of resin, and colorant;
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- (x) optionally isolating the toner, and wherein said coagulant is formed by reacting an acid with an organic aliphatic amino ester selected from the group consisting of tri(2-aminoethyl) citrate, 2-aminoethyl ester, 3-aminopropyl ester, 4-aminobutyl ester, 4-aminobutyroate, 5-aminopentanoate, 6-aminocaproate, tertiary aminoester, aminosulfonate, aminosulfonite, aminophosphorate, and aminophosphorite.
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A process for the preparation of toner comprising
- (i) generating or providing a latex emulsion containing resin, water, and an ionic surfactant, and generating or providing a colorant dispersion containing colorant, water, and an ionic surfactant, or a nonionic surfactant;
- (ii) blending the latex emulsion with the colorant dispersion;
- (iii) adding to the resulting blend a coagulant of a polyamine salt of an acid wherein the salt is of an a opposite charge polarity to that of the latex surfactant;
- (iv) heating the resulting mixture below or about equal to the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the latex resin;
- (v) optionally adding a second latex comprised of resin particles suspended in an aqueous phase resulting in a shell;
- (vi) adjusting with a base the pH to about 7 to about 9;
- (vii) heating the resulting mixture of (vi) above about the Tg of the latex resin;
- (viii) retaining the heating util the fusion or coalescence of resin and colorant is initiated;
- (ix) changing the pH of the above (viii) mixture with an acid to arrive at a pH of about 1.5 to about 3.5 to thereby accelerate the fusion or the coalescence and resulting in toner particles comprised of resin, and colorant;
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- (x) optionally isolating the toner, and wherein said polyamine salt is formed by reacting an organic aliphatic amino ester with an acid, and wherein the formed salt is selected in an amount of from about 0.05 to about 10 percent by weight of toner, and wherein said toner is comprised of a latex resin and colorant.
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A process for the preparation of toner comprising
- (i) generating or providing a latex emulsion containing resin, water, and an ionic surfactant, and generating or providing a colorant dispersion containing colorant, water, and an ionic surfactant, or a nonionic surfactant;
- (ii) blending the latex emulsion with the colorant dispersion;
- (iii) adding to the resulting blend a coagulant of a polyamine salt of an acid wherein the salt is of an opposite charge polarity to that of the latex surfactant;
- (iv) heating the resulting mixture below or about equal to the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the latex resin;
- (v) optionally adding a second latex comprised of resin particles suspended in an aqueous phase resulting in a shell;
- (vi) adjusting with a base the pH to about 7 to about 9;
- (vii) heating the resulting mixture of (vi) above about the Tg of the latex resin;
- (viii) retaining the heating until the fusion or coalescence of resin and colorant is initiated;
- (ix) changing the pH of the above (viii) mixture with an acid to arrive at a pH of about 1.5 to about 3.5 to thereby accelerate the fusion or the coalescence and resulting in toner particles comprised of resin, and colorant;
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- (x) optionally isolating the toner, and wherein said polyamine salt of an acid is tri(aminoethyl) citrate hydrochloric acid salt.
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A process for the preparation of toner comprising
- (i) generating or providing a latex emulsion containing resin, water, and an ionic surfactant, and generating or providing a colorant dispersion containing colorant, water, and an ionic surfactant, or a nonionic surfactant;
- (ii) blending the latex emulsion with the colorant dispersion;
- (iii) adding to the resulting blend a coagulant of a polyamide salt of an acid wherein the salt is of an opposite charge polarity to that of the latex surfactant;
- (iv) heating the resulting mixture below or about equal to the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the latex resin;
- (v) optionally adding a second latex comprised of resin particles suspended in an aqueous phase resulting in a shell;
- (vi) adjusting with a base the pH to about 7 to about 9;
- (vii) heating the resulting mixture of (vi) above about the Tg of the latex resin;
- (viii) retaining the heating until the fusion or coalescence of resin and colorant is initiated;
- (ix) changing the pH of the above (viii) mixture with an acid to arrive at a pH of about 1.5 to about 3.5 to thereby accelerate the fusion or the coalescence and resulting in toner particles comprised of resin, and colorant;
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- (x) optionally isolating the toner, and wherein said polyamine salt is formed by reacting an aliphatic amino ester with an acid.
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