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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2021
Alcon Inc., Fribourg, CH;
Felix Brinckmann, Rossdorf, DE;
Nils Schweizer, Bad König, DE;
Jens Wolfstädter, Kleinwallstadt, DE;
Alcon Inc., Fribourg, CH;
Abstract
A method for transporting a blister strip of ophthalmic lenses: only one single blister strip is provided at a start location and one magazine compartment of two magazine compartments contains n blister strips while the other magazine compartment contains n+1 blister strips, the single buster strip is picked up at the start location by one of the gripper units of a first gripper and is transported into that magazine compartment containing the n blister strips, by moving the first gripper to that magazine compartment containing the n blister strips and releasing the single blister strip from the first gripper into that magazine compartment, or by moving the first gripper to a hand-over station and releasing the single blister strip from the first gripper into the hand-over station, transporting the single blister strip from the hand-over station into that magazine compartment containing the n blister strips using a second gripper.