Abstract: A projection television tube includes a spherically curved electronic beam target surface spaced away from the neck of the tube, a larger reflective surface spherically curved concentrically with the target surface on an end plate located close to the tube neck, a target support that preferably constitutes a face plate for the envelope, and a hollow cylindrical spacer member for closing the side of the tube envelope and for holding the target support accurately spaced from the reflective surface. The ends of the cylindrical member and the abutting surfaces of the end plate and target support are all configured to provide joint interfaces between the elements that lie in spherical planes that are concentric with the target and reflective surfaces, so that slight lateral motion of the parts during assembly and handling will not affect tube projection optics, while the spacing between the target and reflective surfaces is precisely maintained in concentric relationship.

Abstract: An article of manufacture is disclosed for use in a projection television system. A cathode ray picture tube has a face panel with a rearwardly extending skirt and a window for receiving a cathodoluminescent imaging screen. The tube has a seal land which defines a plane whose normal makes a non-zero acute angle with respect to the axis of said window. The article is for use in a system having a cathode ray picture tube whose projection optical axis is on the axis of a remotely located viewing screen, and at least one displaced axis cathode ray picture tube; that is, a tube whose projection optical axis is displaced from the axis of the viewing screen by a non-zero acute angle.

Abstract: Electrical contact with the target electrode of the tube in a tube/coil assembly is made by disposing a wire tangentially to a radial periphery about the longitudinal axis of the tube to create an interference fit between the wire and the electrode.

Abstract: A holographic television system is disclosed which is capable of generating, transmitting and reconstructing three-dimensional moving pictures in real time and in color while using no more electromagnetic bandwidth for transmission than required by present-day black and white television signals.

Abstract: An article of manufacture is disclosed for use in a projection television system. The article comprises a cathode ray picture tube having a funnel and a circular face panel with a rearwardly extending skirt and a window for receiving a cathodoluminescent imaging screen. The panel skirt is conjoinable with the funnel by mating along interfacing edges. The seal edge of the panel skirt defines a plane whose normal makes a non-zero acute cant angle with respect to the axis of the window. The funnel seal edge defines a plane whose normal makes a non-zero acute cant angle with respect to the funnel axis. The tube according to the invention is characterized by having a first pair of embossments on the funnel azimuthally spaced 180 degrees apart adjacent to seal edge of the funnel, and a second pair of embossments on the face panel skirt azimuthally spaced 180 degrees apart and adjacent to the seal edge of the skirt.

Abstract: A flat display device comprises a vacuum envelope constituted by a back base plate consisting of an elastic metal plate and a display panel and accommodating a thermionic cathode structure and a plurality of electrode structures for controlling the electron beams emitted from the thermionic cathode structure. The thermionic cathode structure is divided into a plurality of sections each including a plurality of coiled thermionic cathode heaters connected in parallel and arranged such that each corresponds to each of picture element regions provided on the back side of the display panel. Voltage supply terminals for supplying power to the parallel coiled heaters in each section are led out through the back base plate via insulating members.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube having a face plate composed of a plurality of boron fibers which act as a charge transfer medium to make signals accessible from the outside of the tube for further manipulation and processing.

Abstract: The invention provides a television camera tube having between the gun thereof and its target a baffle member formed as a wall integral with the tube and extending inwardly and towards the gun to provide a particle receiving cavity extending around the path of the beam of the gun for retaining loose particles originating from the gun and which would otherwise land upon the target of the tube when this is operated in a "face-down" position.

Abstract: A multiple cathode X-ray tube for densitometers.This tube contains an anode assembly functioning by transmission, which is arranged along the sides of a regular convex polygon, with several cathodes, each of which sweeps one side of the polygon and a collimation device with several openings placed in front of the anode assembly to produce a series of fine, parallel and coplanar beams, the number of beams being equal to the number of openings. Such a tube makes very fast tomography possible.

Abstract: An electron display tube has its flat glass plate sealed to the flange of its metal cone, or funnel, by the use of a pressure deformable metal strip between the flange and the plate and several U-shaped clamps at the edge of the flange and plate urging the plate and flange towards each other and a metal rimband around the edges of the plate and flange and embracing the clamps so as to maintain them in compression.

Abstract: The high voltage terminal of the ultor capacitance of a cathode ray tube is coupled to an electron gun structure. The ultor return terminal which typically comprises an outer conductive coating of the cathode ray tube envelope is coupled to the ground return base pin of the cathode ray tube. The ground termination for electrical components and the chassis is also coupled to the ground return base pin. During arc-over, the cathode ray tube ultor capacitance discharges through the ground return base pin. Arc-over current oscillations flow in the chassis and electrical component circuitry by means of stray capacitive coupling to the ultor return terminal. A resistor is coupled to the chassis and to the ultor return terminal for damping arc-over current oscillation in the chassis and in the component circuitry.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube is disclosed which is relatively flat in the viewing direction, including a transparent envelope having at least one generally flat section, a screen arranged within the envelope, an electron gun for projecting an electron beam along a path substantially parallel to the plane of the screen, and first and second deflecting means for causing the beam to scan a line and a frame, respectively, characterized by the provision of a single conductive member of a given potential forming a beam directing electrode spaced from the screen and arranged such that the path of the electron beam lies between the electrode and the screen.

Abstract: A front panel is temporarily secured to the display face of a cathode ray tube by a piece of double-sided foam tape. The tape holds the panel in forwardly spaced relation with the display face and defines a cell for receiving resin which permanently bonds the panel to the display face.

Abstract: In a display device a modulator structure may be formed by disposing on a surface of the back wall a plurality of first control electrodes. A modulator member having a smoothly continuous surface has disposed thereon a plurality of second control electrodes. The surfaces of the back wall and the top member having the electrodes thereon are joined together to form opposing pairs of control electrodes.

Abstract: A television cathode ray picture tube having a glass envelope including a funnel and a faceplate generates X-radiation internally and incidental to its operation. The funnel has a wall in which is sealingly embedded open-side-out a cup-like high-voltage receptacle having an inwardly turning annular lip for detachably engaging a mating high voltage electrical connector. An improved means for enhancing the X-radiation-inhibiting characteristics of the receptacle is depicted. The improved means comprises a cover of radiation-resistant material retained against the annular lip effective to close the opening of said receptacle whereby the shielding characteristics of the receptacle are enhanced by the cover.

Abstract: A projection cathode ray tube has a target that is mechanically adjustable by means external to the evacuated envelope. The target extends into the evacuated space and is mounted upon a bellows that forms part of the envelope. The target is moved relative to other optical elements within the envelope by means extending through the bellows to provide both axial and pivotal adjustment after the tube is sealed. This structure enables other optical components including image reflectors to be constructed integrally with the envelope, and also improves heat transfer between the target and the external space, permitting control of the target temperature.

Abstract: This disclosure depicts a television cathode ray tube including an evacuated glass envelope having on an external surface of a funnel portion thereof an outer conductive coating and on an internal surface thereof an inner conductive coating for receiving a high voltage charge. The tube has an electron gun located in a neck of the funnel.

Abstract: A rimless face panel is mounted on a funnel-shadow mask color selection device subassembly for a color television picture tube construction by indexing means establishing a unique positional relationship between the face panel and the mask. Bosses are formed on the inner walls of the funnel to receive mask support brackets which engage spring arms of brackets attached to the mask for precise spacing of the mask from the seal edge of the funnel. In a first embodiment, tabs are provided on the spring arms for engaging slots in the face panel to establish the positional relationship between the face panel and the mask during lighthousing and sealing. In a second embodiment, the tabs are formed on the mask support brackets. In a third and a fourth embodiments, studs in the face panel engage elongated apertures in the mask support brackets.

Abstract: An envelope for an oscilloscope tube is formed by simultaneously rotating and heating a glass tube and upsetting the heated tube, to form a cylindrical section having uniform thickness and varying diameter. The thus formed envelope portion is then pressed into a shape having a rectangular cross-section, without changing the circumference, in order to maintain the thickness of the envelope.

Abstract: An electron gun for heating, fusing and vaporizing having a high voltage portion, an electron emitting cathode and at least one beam forming electrode associated with the cathode. An accelerating anode, a beam guiding tube extending in the direction of the beam path and surrounded by a jacket tube and an electromatic lens are also provided. One or more deflection systems are positioned in the space formed between the beam guiding tube and the jacket tube. The beam guiding tube, the jacket tube, the electromatic lens and the deflection systems are contained in a single, replaceable unit which is joined by a plurality of hollow posts parallel to the gun axis to the high-voltage portion of the gun. The space for the electromagnetic lens and the deflection systems communicates with the atmosphere through at least one of the hollow posts.

Abstract: This disclosure depicts a novel system for implosion protecting a color television picture tube having a faceplate with a rearwardly extending side surface and a mating funnel. The system is illustrated as comprising, in part, a high tensile strength frame which surrounds and overlies at least a portion of the side surface of the faceplate and which is cemented to the faceplate. The system further comprises a crack retarder which is located about the circumference of the tube, but which is spaced axially rearwardly from the frame. The system assists in retaining in position the shards of a shattered faceplate and also assists in retarding the propagation of cracks in the tube, thereby providing for a relatively gradual buildup of pressure in the tube.

Abstract: An evacuated envelope having at least one ceramic component and one aluminum component sealed to one another along a common interface. A metallized layer is on said ceramic component along said interface and a fused solder having an Al-Si eutectic structure with 89% aluminum and 11% silicon is along said interface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a luminescent screen of a shadow mask color tube. The phosphor dots on the screen which are separated by a light-absorbing material are smaller than the apertures in the shadow mask. The light-absorbing layer is first provided on the window and the luminescent materials are then provided successively. The inner surface of the window is such that undulations having a spatial frequency from 5 to 50 cm.sup.-.sup.1 or, in other words, wavelengths between 0.2 cm and 0.02 cm, show a depth of less than 1 micron.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube is disclosed which is relatively flat in the viewing direction, including a transparent envelope having at least one generally flat section, a screen arranged within the envelope, an electron gun for projecting an electron beam along a path substantially parallel to the plane of the screen, and first and second deflecting means for causing the beam to scan a line and a frame, respectively, characterized by the provision of a single conductive member of a given potential forming a beam directing electrode spaced from the screen and arranged such that the path of the electron beam lies between the electrode and the screen.