Abstract: A process for coating a front surface of a cathode ray, the process being characterized by using a ultraviolet ray setting plastic material as a coating material. According to the process, a preformed cathode ray tube bulb having a front surface is maintained with the front surface directed upwards and a transparent, fluidized or molten plastic material of ultraviolet setting property is discharged to the front surface of the bulb through a plurality of thin nozzles arranged in at least one row or one or more nozzles each having an elongated nozzle opening. In this instance, it is preferable that the molten plastic material discharged from the nozzles is received by a film forming surface which is arranged adjacent to the nozzles to form a thin plastic film before it reaches the front surface of the bulb. Preferably, the film forming surface is provided by a sheet of a material, such as a silicon rubber, which is not wettable to the plastic material.