Abstract: A method and device for the manufacture of a hollow cone (37) with a cone tip (31) whereby a parison of viscous material (35) is moulded into the shape of the hollow cone. An escape space (11) becomes accessible to the material in the vicinity of a cone tip to be formed. The moment the pressure present in the material in the vicinity of the cone tip to be formed exceeds a previously defined value. Breaking-off of the cone tip during or after moulding is prevented by this. The hollow cone is suitable inter alia for use in a cathode ray tube.

Abstract: A method and device for the manufacture of a hollow cone (37) with a cone tip (31) whereby a parison of viscous material (35) is moulded into the shape of the hollow cone. An escape space (11) becomes accessible to the material in the vicinity of a cone tip to be formed. The moment the pressure present in the material in the vicinity of the cone tip to be formed exceeds a previously defined value. Breaking-off of the cone tip during or after moulding is prevented by this. The hollow cone is suitable inter alia for use in a cathode ray tube.

Abstract: A method and device for the manufacture of a hollow cone (37) with a cone tip (31) whereby a parison of viscous material (35) is molded into the shape of the hollow cone. An escape space (11) becomes accessible to the material in the vicinity of a cone tip to be formed. The moment the pressure present in the material in the vicinity of the cone tip to be formed exceeds a previously defined value. Breaking-off of the cone tip during or after molding is prevented by this. The hollow cone is suitable inter alia for use in a cathode ray tube.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hollow cone having an open side and a cone tip. The method utilizing the steps of introducing a viscous material in a first mold portion, introducing a second mold portion and contacting the viscous material therewith, providing a force in an escape space so as to prevent the viscous material from flowing into the escape space, forming the open side of the hollow cone while preventing the viscous material from entering the escape space and causing the viscous material to enter the escape space to form the cone tip.

Abstract: The thin-type display device (1) has a transparent front wall (3), which is provided with a display screen, and a rear wall (24) which extends parallel to said front wall (3), and said display device comprises at least an electron source and a duct structure. The display device (1) is characterized in that the rear wall (24) and walls (22, 22', 22") of the ducts of the duct structure are manufactured in a single piece. Preferably, the walls (22, 22', 22") of the ducts widen in the direction of the rear wall (24), with the angle, which opposing faces of the walls (22, 22', 22") of the ducts make with each other, ranging from 1.degree. to 30.degree.. Preferably, the rear wall (24) further comprises at least an upright side wall (32), which is integral with the rear wall (24). Preferably, the walls (22, 22', 22") are made from a glass having a temperature interval between the operating temperature and the softening temperature of less than 420.degree., perferably less than 360.degree.

Abstract: A display device includes: a rear wall (4); a display panel (3) spaced from the rear wall (4) and a display screen (7) having a pattern of phosphor pixels; an addressing structure (100) disposed intermediate the rear wall (4) and the display panel (3) for addressing the display screen (7); and an aperture spacer plate (101); wherein, the spacer plate (101) includes a glass material having an electrical resistance of log R at 250.degree. C..gtoreq.8. The spacer plate (101) including a glass material having an electrical resistance of log R at 250.degree. C..gtoreq.8 reduces the charging of the spacer plate walls and improves uniformity of phosphor brightness. The spacer plate may further comprise a glass having a lower alkali mobility less than sodium lime glass.

Abstract: The inner surface of a cathode ray tube is roughened by blasting the surface with a suspension which comprises radiation particles, the inner surface being irradiated in such a manner that it satisfies the inequalities 0.05 .mu.m<R.sub.a <0.5 .mu.m and R.sub.z <4 .mu.m and, preferably, 0.1 .mu.m<R.sub.a <0.2 .mu.m. The reflection at such a surface is comparable to the reflection at an etched surface. The method in accordance with the invention is safer and less harmful to the environment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a display tube in which a transparent plate 9 is secured to the display window 2 by securing means 10 located between and exclusively along the edge portions of the display window 2 and the transparent plate 9. Subsequently, the envelope and the space 12 between the display window and the transparent plate 9 are evacuated substantially simultaneously. An optical coupling means is then provided in the space 12 between the display window 2 and the transparent plate 9.

Abstract: An apparatus for saturating a gas with the vapor of a liquid is formed by two chambers. In the first chamber the gas is passed through the liquid which has a higher temperature than the temperature at which the gas must ultimately have been saturated on leaving the apparatus. Thereafter, the gas is passed into a second chamber. The liquid in said chamber has the temperature at which the gas must be saturated.

Abstract: A bundle of parallel glass tubes (27) is passed through openings (29) in parallel alignment plates (5) which divide the bundle into a central portion (31) in a zone between the two alignment plates and two end portions (33) beyond this zone. Subsequently, the tubes are softened by heating and the central portion of the bundle is constricted. Subsequently, the central portion is embedded in a moulding compound which, when set, forms two coupling pieces (1) for printing heads, which coupling pieces can be separated from one another along a separating plane (37) which extends parallel to the alignment plates. Thus, important parts of at least two printing heads are manufactured simultaneously.

Abstract: Tubes, consisting of an electrically insulating material such as SiO.sub.2, are internally coated by reactive deposition form a gas mixture passing through the tube. The deposition is activated by a plasma reciprocally moving along within the tube. The plasma is formed in the tube by high-frequency electric energy capacitively applied to the gas phase by means of two flames which impinge upon the outside of the tube at two longitudinally spaced sites. The sites are reciprocally moved along the tube during the reactive deposition. A high-frequency generator is electrically connected to the burners generating the flames. An apparatus for coating tubes comprises a gas supply system, burners for generating a plasma and means for moving the burners.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable comprising a cylindrical body and optical fibers which are located, and periodically fixed, in respective grooves in the body. The grooves extend along the length of the body in a helical manner, which may periodically change its sense of rotation. The grooves are either in the surface of the body or in the inner surface of a jacket surrounding the body. The fibers may be fixed after every full turn by means of a wire located in a longitudinal groove which crosses the grooves in which the fibers are fixed. The fibers may alternatively be periodically fixed by means of a longitudinally extending adhesive strip. The whole assembly may be provided with a layer of wound tape and a jacket.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for manufacturing optical fibers in which a preform is heated in a furnace which is provided with a graphite heating element and a fiber is drawn from the heated preform. The fiber is subsequently cooled, provided with a coating, and, after drying of the coating, the fiber is wound onto a reel.For applying a coating to the fiber, the fiber is passed through a nozzle which has a polygonal nozzle opening.

Abstract: Method of and apparatus for manufacturing optical fibers in which a preform is heated in a furnace which is provided with a graphite heating element and a fiber is drawn from the heated preform. The fiber is subsequently cooled, provided with a coating, and, after drying of the coating, the fiber is wound onto a reel.During drawing of the fiber, the preform and fiber are flushed with a gas. According to the invention the gas with which the fiber is flushed is passed along a condensation element.