Appeal No. 95-3860
Application No. 08/109,732
final rejection of claims 28 through 32 and 35 through 49.
Claims 24 through 27 stand withdrawn from further
consideration. Claims 50 and 51 are allowed and claims 33 and
34 are allowable.
The subject matter on appeal is related to a photographic
processing method which is said to maintain the various
processing solutions in the active state, thus reducing the
need to replenish the solutions and reducing the volume of
solution which must be disposed of. To illustrate the
invention, claim 28 is reproduced below:
28. A photographic processing method wherein a silver
halide photosensitive material is developed after exposure
with a developer solution and processed with other solutions
which include at least one of a first processing solution
having a bleaching function and a second processing solution
having a fixing function, said method comprising the steps of:
disposing one of said developer solution, said first
processing solution and said second processing solution on one
side of an anion exchange member and/or disposing one of said
first processing solution and an electrolyte solution, which
is different from said developer solution, said first
processing solution and said second processing solution, on
the other side of said membrane, wherein a solution on said
one side of said membrane is different from a solution on said
other side thereof; and
conducting electricity across said membrane.
No prior art has been cited or applied by the examiner.
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