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US3058914A
US3058914A US762912A US76291258A US3058914A US 3058914 A US3058914 A US 3058914A US 762912 A US762912 A US 762912A US 76291258 A US76291258 A US 76291258A US 3058914 A US3058914 A US 3058914A
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Kenneth A Metcalfe
Robert J Wright
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  • This invention relates to non-inflammable liquid developers for electrostatic images.
  • Liquids having the required characteristics are generally of an inflammatory nature and while the hazard of using them is extremely small or non-existent under suitable operating conditions, an object of this invention is to provide an improvement with respect to this type of developer which will ensure that the danger of fire is completely removed or substantially reduced.
  • liquid developers are generally handled by operators, it is desirable that they be non-toxic and this invention therefore seeks to provide a liquid developer for electrostatic images which is both non-inflammable and non-toxic in ordinary use.
  • Such a developer can be formed by using as the liquid carrier having the necessary high electrical resistivity, substances of the chlorofluoromethane, or ethane, group.
  • chlorinated fluorinated hydrocarbon solvents or refrigerants or propellants are the chlorinated fluorinated hydrocarbon solvents or refrigerants or propellants.
  • the substances of the invention should have a dielectric constant less than 3, preferably less than 2.5 and should be sufiiciently stable under various conditions.
  • One of the advantages of using ffuorinated hydrocarbon solvents or refrigerants or propellants is that a high degree of volatility can be attained, the effect of this being to speed up development and permitting very quick removal of the carrier medium and thereby ensuring the rapid fixing and drying of the developed image.
  • the substances are good carriers for the pigment materials, and have the necessary solvent action for the resins or other substances which may be used with liquid developers to act as control and fixing agents.
  • Example 1 15 grams of a phenol modified penta-erythritol ester of rosin such as that known under the trade name Pentarol 20 (acid value 7-15, specific gravity at 20 C. 1.09, melting range 110l20 C.) is digested'in 25 grams of Xylene (a non-polar liquid having a volume resistivity of at least 10 ohm-centimetre and a dielectric constant of less than 3), and when solution is completed, 15 grams of a linseed oil modified alkyd resin of medium oil length such as that known under the trade name Rhodene L6/ (oil length 52%, acid value 610, specific gravity at 20 C. 0955-0965) is added.
  • Xylene a non-polar liquid having a volume resistivity of at least 10 ohm-centimetre and a dielectric constant of less than 3
  • phthalocyanine blue is then added to the above coating mix and blended either in a ball mill or a triple roller mill until mixing is complete and pigment :particle size is reduced to the required fineness, such as 0.5 micron, average.
  • This coating mix will thus influence the surface charge of the coated particles and will form the bonding means after the pigment is applied in a liquid development process.
  • the paste so produced is used as the basis for a dispersion in the chlorinated fluorin-ated hydrocarbon solvent forming the developer carrier liquid, approximately 0.5 gram of the developer paste being dispersed in 100 mils of the liquid.
  • the liquid developer so formed is simply contacted with the image, and the coated pigment particles, which are free to move in the liquid, deposit on those areas of the image where a suitable potential exists, until the charge of the image has been satisfied by the particles deposited, the particles being held in position by the electrical force until the carrier liquid is evaporated, whereupon the pigment particles are held by direct adhesion of the resin on the surface of the particles.
  • the coating mix according to the above example is, as said, only partly soluble in the carrier liquid, and therefore, while the partly dissolved surface of the coating is in a condition where it will form an effective bonding medium after evaporation of the solvent, it will act as a surface charge modifier during development to control the migration of the particles in an electrical field.
  • the developer paste described is more soluble in the trichloromonofluoromethane and simple mixing, without grinding, is found suflicient.
  • a mixture of the two carriers referred to may be used, for instance 60% of Freon MP and 40% of Freon TF.
  • Freon MF or Freon TF may be combined with a less volatile, or an inflammable type of carrier provided the compounded carrier has a volume resistivity in excess of 10 ohm-centimetre and a dielectric constant of not greater than 3.
  • a suitable mixture would be Freon MF 80 parts and xylene 20 parts the resulting mixture still being non-inflammable.
  • the percent-age can, of course, be varied according to conditions.
  • Example 2 The developer of Example 1 can be modified by re- .the developer then acts as one placing the Rhodehe L6/100 with an equal percentage of Pentarol 20, whereupon it Will be found that the developer will have good fixing qualities but will not have the same degree of modification of the surface charge ofi thepigment particles as the Pentarol 20 is relatively soluble in the hydrocarbon carrier liquid and is a tacky substance, so that it tends to leave the pigment particles when in the developer and deposit :as a. fixing substance.
  • sufi'icient tacky substance is substances to cause it to remain there ment, the developer can he said to have both a charge modifying agent and a fixing agent.
  • Example 3 V The developer of example 1 has the Pentarol 20 replaced by an equal percentage of Rhodene L6/100,
  • . prising a chlorinated fluorinated hydrocarbon carrier .liquid selected from the group consisting of trichloroduring developcharge modifier for said substantial volatility to monofluoromethane and :trichlorotrifiuoroethane and mixtures thereof, pigment particles dispersed in said liquid, and resins constituting a coating on said particles, one of said resins being relatively soluble in said liquid and constituting a fixing agent for said particles whereby the particles may be fixed tola surface, another of said resins being relatively insoluble in said liquid and being of such composition as to constitute an electrostatic particles,.said liquid having a insure a rapid fixing of said particles to said surface.
  • a developer as defined in claim 1 further comprising a non-polar liquid having a volume resistivity of at least 10 ohm-centimetre and a dielectric constant of less than 3.

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