Supporting members for a color selecting electrode assembly

A color selecting electrode assembly for color cathode ray tubes comprising:

• an aperture grill having thin slits;
• a frame over which the aperture grill is stretched;
• and supporting members in which a fixing portion at one end is attached to the frame and an engaging portion at the other end is engaged with a panel pin provided on a panel side wall so as to support the frame, wherein an elastic portion of the supporting members is arranged in such a manner that boundary portions of the elastic portion with the fixing portion and the engaging portion, which are at both ends of the elastic portion, become parallel to a longitudinal direction of the slits, and an engaging hole bored in the engaging portion for engaging with the panel pin is provided at such a position that the engaging hole intersects with an imaginary extension plane containing a line of a joining portion of the frame and the aperture grill and extended in a direction parallel to a tube axis of a color cathode ray tube.