Abstract:
A metal sheet is embossed by a special embossing tool to provide regions in the sheet of minimum thickness at the intended aperture locations thereon. Following embossing, the sheet is shaped into a desired mask contour and the embossed side of the sheet is coated with a stop-off substance to prevent subsequent removal of material from that side. The regions of minimum thickness are then removed, such as by etching the uncoated side of the sheet, to provide the apertures.
Abstract:
A method for producing a color kinescope having an image screen and a color-selection mask comprising final-size apertures. The method includes the steps of providing at least one perforated resist layer on a metal substrate and removing through the perforations of the resist layer both certain portions of the substrate so as to provide corridors of a given size through the substrate and other portions of the substrate adjacent to the corridors, so as to provide recesses extending only partially through the substrate thereby producing a preliminary mask. The image screen is produced with the preliminary mask, and, then, portions of the substrate located beneath the various recesses are removed so as to produce a color-selection mask comprising final-size apertures of larger size than the corridors. The color selection mask is then incorporated in a kinescope.
Abstract:
The method comprises depositing a thin layer of a first metal having a relatively high degree of solubility in a particular etchant on a substrate, this first metal being catalytic to electroless deposition of a second metal to be subsequently deposited, electrolessly depositing on the first metal a pattern of areas of a second metal which has a relatively low degree of solubility in the etchant, and then treating the plated areas with the etchant, so that the first metal is removed where it is not covered by the second metal but the second metal is substantially unaffected.