Surfactant-like material in a hydrophilic layer adjacent a stripping layer for diffusion transfer assemblages

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Abstract of the Disclosure Photographic assemblages and processes are described wherein a stripping layer is employed to enable an image-receiving layer to be separated from the rest of the assemblage after processing. Each side of the stripping layer has a hydrophilic layer immediately adjacent thereto, only one of which contains a surfactant-like material having a hydrocarbon fatty tail of at least eight carbon atoms which is remote from a polar group, the material being present in an amount sufficient to enable a clean separation between the image-receiving layer and the portion of the assemblage containing the silver halide emulsion layer. Transparencies or prints which are less bulky …