Apparatus for coating a surface of one or more lenses

US6296707A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Gerber Coburn Optical, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Anthony P. Adamczyk · Manchester, US
• Glenn E. Bowley · Tolland, US
• John Dahill · Manchester, US
• Richard R. Edwards · Huntsville, US
• Lonzell Hall · Simsbury, US
• Michael Payette · Rose Lane, US
• Sout Senethep · Town of East Hartford, US
• Peter A. Wilcox · Portland, US
• Heather Wilson · Laguna Beach, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 17, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 17, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B1/14
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In an apparatus for coating a surface of at least one lens having pair of opposed major surfaces, al least one lens support is coupled to a frame and is rotatable relative thereto. A lens is releasably mounted to the lens support leaving one of the major lens surfaces exposed. A mounting plate is coupled to the frame and is positioned proximate to the lens support. A series of work stations are carried by the mounting plate for sequentially performing work operations on the exposed major surface of the lens. The lens support is indexable relative to the mounting plate to position the exposed lens surface adjacent to each of the work stations in response to commands issued from a controller.