Picture display tube with detachable getter

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Disclosed is a picture display tube comprising an envelope having a display window, a cone and a neck. An electrode system to generate at least one electron beam is mounted in the neck and an electrical resistive layer extends over an internal wall portion of the envelope to a point near the electrode system. The tube comprises a getter which is detachably secured to a connecting member projecting internally from the wall of the tube at a location remote from the electrode system by means of a resilient connection strip, The portion of the connection member projecting from the tube wall has a gradually widening end having a largest transverse dimension D and a smallest transverse dimension …