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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2000
Scott Frederick Ansell, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Jan Albert Maria Windey, Lommel, BE;
Kenneth W. Foley, Jr., Fruit Cove, FL (US);
Gerald Robert Krebsbach, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Robert MacDonald Smith, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Carl G. Crowe, Jr., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Abstract
This invention provides a mold for forming a contact lens including an overflow collector, which causes the overflow reactive mixture to be accumulated, and not to spread out as it would upon the typically flat surface of a prior art mold. This invention further provides a method of preventing the formation of contaminating pieces of overflow reactive mixture comprising the step of: preventing the overflow reactive mixture from spreading out on the mold.