Device for blocking workpieces, particularly spectacle lenses, for the processing and/or coating thereof

US8616150B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Satisloh AG · CH

Inventors

• Marc Savoie · Wetzlar, DE
• Holger Schäfer · Hachenburg, DE
• Steffen Wallendorf · Heuchelheim, DE
• Peter Jost · Weinheim, DE
• Jochen Wagner · Ruppertsweiler, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 11, 2009
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 26, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B29D11/00942
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for blocking workpieces for the processing and/or coating thereof, has a support surface for positioning the workpiece to be blocked, a blocking station in which the workpiece can be blocked on a blocking piece by a temporarily deformable blocking material, and a transport device which has a retaining head for the workpiece and by which a relative movement can be created between the workpiece being retained at the retaining head, and the support surface and the blocking station. The transport device has at least four position-controlled movement axes, by which to position the workpiece in a defined manner in consideration of the orientation and geometric information relative to a blocking piece located in the blocking station, and can be retained in the defined relative position to the blocking piece during blocking while leaving a blocking material accommodation gap between the workpiece and the blocking piece.