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US2062538A
US2062538A US60371A US6037136A US2062538A US 2062538 A US2062538 A US 2062538A US 60371 A US60371 A US 60371A US 6037136 A US6037136 A US 6037136A US 2062538 A US2062538 A US 2062538A
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    • H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
    • H01J29/46—Arrangements of electrodes and associated parts for generating or controlling the ray or beam, e.g. electron-optical arrangement
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  • Patented Dec. 1, 1 936 UNITED STATES CATHODE BAY TUBE Francois Joseph Gerard Van den Bosch, London,
  • a known form of cathode ray tube comprises a glass envelope in the form of a cylinder flaring out into a frusto-conical bulb, the inner face of the end wall of the bulb being coated with a substance, such as willemite or calcium tungstate, which becomes fluorescent under bombardment by the cathode ray.
  • a hot emitting cathode surrounded by an open-ended metal cylinder, one or more anodes each in the form of a centrally apertured disc,- a pair of horizontal and a pair of vertical deflecting plates.
  • Focussing of the ray on the fluorescent screen is achieved by suitably adjusting the relative positions and potentials of these electrodes, and hitherto great difliculty has been experienced in reducing the size of the fluorescent spot on the screen to that required for such purposes as'high definition television.
  • the plates of each of the horizontal and vertical deflecting pairs of plates are coated on their adjacent faces with a substance such as an alkali metal oxide or iodide for example, strontium-oxide, barium-oxide, lime, iodide of calcium, calcium fluoride or caesium, which are known to emit electrons easily when i even slightly heated.
  • a substance such as an alkali metal oxide or iodide for example, strontium-oxide, barium-oxide, lime, iodide of calcium, calcium fluoride or caesium, which are known to emit electrons easily when i even slightly heated.
  • the plates of each of said pairs are parallel over a minor portion of their axial length nearer the cathode and diverge outwardly from the cathode over a major portion farther from the cathode.
  • axis of the tube is meant a line coincident with the centre-line of the beam of rays passing through the tube.
  • a cathode ray tube comprises a cathode l, a Wehnelt cylinder 2 surrounding the cathode, a flrst anode 3 in the form of a centrally apertured disc, a second and similar anode 4, a pair of. vertical" deflecting plates 5 and 6 and a pair of horizontal deflecting plates 1 and 8.
  • the two pairs of plates 5, 6 and I, 8 are termed vertical" and horizontal deflecting plates respectively, since they operate to deflect the ray in the vertical and horizontal planes respectively.
  • the vertical plate I is earthed and the vertical deflecting potentials are applied between the plates 8 and I.
  • the horizontal plate 5 is maintained at 200 volts negative with respect to plate 1, and the horizontal deflecting potentials are applied between the plates 5 and 6.
  • the second anode 4, the first anode 3, the Wehnelt cylinder 2 and the cathode I are maintained respectively at the following negative potentials with respect to the plate I: 600 volts, 1200 volts, 1435 volts and 1400 volts.
  • Adjacent faces of the plates 1, 8, and 5, 8, are coated with a substance, such as potassium or strontium oxide or caesium which emits electrons freely when a current is passed through the tube and these plates are slightly heated. Preferably a current of 5 to 20 milli-amperes is passed to these plates which then become slightly heated.
  • Each pair may consist of parallel rectangular plates or, as shown, each plate such as 5 may be formed from a rectangular plate bent along a line 9 which is perpendicular to the tube axis Ill. The distance II, I2 is about A; of the axial length of the plate 5. The plates of each pair are bent outwardly and disposed symmetrically about the axis Hi.
  • the adjacent faces of the plates of each pair I, 8 and 5, 6 may be coated either all over or, as shown, only upon thedivergent portions.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising a cathode, an anode, a pair of vertical deflecting plates and a pair of horizontal deflecting plates, the plates of each of said pairs being coated, on their adjacent sides, with an electron emitting substance.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising a cathode, an anode, a pair of vertical deflecting plates and a pair of horizontal deflecting plates, the plates of each of said pairs being coated, on their adjac'ent sides, with an electron emitting substance selected from strontium oxide, barium oxide, lime, calcium iodide, calcium fluoride and caesium.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising a cathode, an anode, a pair or vertical deflecting plates and a pair of horizontal deflecting plates, the plates of each pair being parallel over a minor portion of their axial length nearer the cathode, diverging outwardly from the cathode 'over the remaining major portion further from the cathode and being coated on their adjacent taces with an electron emitting substance.
  • a cathode ray tube comprising a cathode. an anode, a pair of vertical deflecting plates and a pair oi horizontal deflecting plates, the plates 01' each pair being parallel over a minor portion 4 01' their axial length nearer the cathode diverging outwardly from the cathode over the remaining major portion further from the cathode and being coated on the outwardly divergent pottions or theiradjacent faces with an electron emitting substance.

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US2455992A (en) * 1947-01-25 1948-12-14 Du Mont Allen B Lab Inc Cathode-ray tube amusement device
US2530275A (en) * 1946-03-16 1950-11-14 Weingarten Joseph Cathode-ray tube image control
US2709229A (en) * 1950-06-01 1955-05-24 Rca Corp Radioactive monokinetic charged particle generators
US2922069A (en) * 1958-07-15 1960-01-19 Bell Telephone Labor Inc High speed counting and switching tubes

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
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US2530275A (en) * 1946-03-16 1950-11-14 Weingarten Joseph Cathode-ray tube image control
US2455992A (en) * 1947-01-25 1948-12-14 Du Mont Allen B Lab Inc Cathode-ray tube amusement device
US2709229A (en) * 1950-06-01 1955-05-24 Rca Corp Radioactive monokinetic charged particle generators
US2922069A (en) * 1958-07-15 1960-01-19 Bell Telephone Labor Inc High speed counting and switching tubes

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