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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1988
Kenneth L Smith, Porum, OK (US);
Edgar L Field, Jr, Muskogee, OK (US);
Coburn Optical Industries, Inc., Tulsa, OK (US);
Abstract
A lens grinding machine includes a grinding tool mounted on a tool support, and a lens holder mounted in a tailstock assembly. The lens is positioned for grinding by advancing the tailstock assembly into engagement with the tool support. A push-back member carried by a housing of the tailstock assembly is actuated to displace the tailstock housing to a predetermined spacing from the tool reference axis. A dial carried by the tailstock housing and operably connected to the lens holder is rotated to bring a desired lens thickness-related value on one scale into alignment with a lens diopter-related value on an adjacent scale, whereupon a precise grinding position of the lens is attained.