Continuous production of a photosensitive recording element

US5049478A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Horst Koch · Havelsee, DE
• Karl-Rudolf Kurtz · Heidelberg, DE
• Thomas Telser · Weinheim, DE
• Manfred Zuerger

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 26, 1989
• Grant date: Sep 17, 1991
• Expiry date: Sep 26, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S430/111
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A novel, improved continuous process for the production of a photosensitive recording element is described, whose photopolymerizable recording layer (A) consists of two or more individual strata (a.sub.n) lying one on top of the other and firmly bonded to one another. The individual strata (a.sub.n) may be of the same or roughly the same composition or of different compositions. In the novel, improved continuous process, the mixtures (a.sub.n) used for the production of the individual strate (a.sub.n) are prepared separately from one another and melted and, as separate molten material streams (a.sub.n), are combined even before entering the nip of a calender, without the said streams mixing as a result of turbulence. During, before or directly after they have been combined, the molten material streams (a.sub.n) are formed into molten sheet-like structures (a.sub.n) lying one on top of the other, without the said streams mixing as a result of turbulence. Thereafter, the molten sheet-like structures (a.sub.n) lying one on top of the other are introduced into the calender nip, one or both of the two outer molten sheet-like structures (a.sub.n) in contact with the calender rollers form…