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Bausch-Lomb Incorporated

Oculus Contact Lens Company

Wilhelm F Kunzler

Joseph J Falcetta

William F Coombs

Molded contact and intraocular lens blanks are lathe cut into the finished lens without demolding and prior measurement of the blank by the use of a hemispherical based mold with at least one key way adapted for spindle bore feeding to a lathe equipped with a hemispherical locating ring and corresponding key. Among other things the mold and method disclosed provide a convenient way to generate prism or multiple curve segments as required for segmented bifocal lenses or the like.

Mold for and method of making contact and intraocular lenses

A material adapted to be used as a contact lens is made from a solid copolymer. The copolymer is made from an alkyl acrylate ester, an organosiloxane ester and a proteinaceous inhibiting wetting mixture of N-(1,1-dimethyl-3-oxobutyl)acrylamide and one or more acids selected from the group consisting of acrylic and methacrylic acid.

Material used for optical devices

A toric or bifocal contact lens comprising a central optic zone and a peripheral zone, said peripheral zone having affixed to its anterior surface a bead, said bead on at least a part of the upper half of said peripheral zone being tapered down from a sweeping arc which intersects with the bead on each side of the lens to the uppermost point on the periphery of the lens. The lens can be prepared by casting in a mold to obtain the desired anterior surface of the lens followed by lathe cutting the posterior surface.

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Fairport, NY, United States of America

Wilhelm F Kunzler