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Holding device for a spectacle glass

US6419570B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 8, 2001
Grant dateJul 16, 2002
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Expiry dateFeb 8, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB24B9/146
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Holding device for a spectacle lens for the purpose of inserting and removing the spectacle lens into or from a container and/or of mounting and removing it on or from a spectacle lens holding shaft of a spectacle lens edge processing machine by means of a handling apparatus, which holding device comprises a base which is held by the handling apparatus and has a depression, a controllable vacuum-pressure connection at the depression, and a spherical cap, which is arranged in the depression, bears tightly against an annular surface of the depression and has an opening to the depression and a sealing region at the edge of the spherical cap for the purpose of bearing against an optical surface of the spectacle lens.

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