Mold assembly for forming contact lens blank and method of...

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B29D 11/00 (2006.01) B29C 37/00 (2006.01)

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CA 2235692

A mold assembly for forming a lens blank which gives a contact lens, the mold assembly comprising an upper and a lower mold half which cooperate with each other to define a substantially fluid-tight mold cavity when the two mold haves are assembled together, the mold cavity being filled with a monomer liquid which is polymerized to provide the lens blank that is to be subjected to a cutting operation for forming a base and a front curved surface of the contact lens, wherein the improvement comprises: the upper mold half including a flexible thin-walled portion which has a downwardly convex shape and which partially defines the mold cavity, the thin-walled portion being deformable to absorb expansion or shrinkage of the monomer liquid during polymerization thereof in the mold cavity; and the lower mold half including a base portion at which the lower mold half is clamped by a chuck of a lathe during the cutting operation, and a mold portion having a molding surface which is provided with lens blank holding means for holding the lens blank on the lower mold half, the lens blank being formed in the mold cavity defined by and between the upper and lower mold halves.

L'invention porte sur un moule pour le formage d'une ébauche en vue de la fabrication d'une lentille cornéenne. Le moule comporte un poinçon et une matrice définissant, lorsque réunies, une cavité substantiellement étanche à l'eau; cette cavité est remplie d'un liquide monomère et la polymérisation de ce liquide donne l'ébauche de lentille qui doit être soumise à une opération de coupe par laquelle seront mises en forme une base et une surface frontale courbe qui constitueront la lentille cornéenne. Le perfectionnement visé par l'invention est le suivant : le poinçon comporte une paroi mince souple de forme convexe qui définit partiellement l'empreinte : cette paroi mince étant déformable, elle absorbe l'expansion ou le retrait du liquide monomère pendant sa polymérisation; de plus, la matrice comporte une base à laquelle elle est fixée par le mandrin d'un tour pendant l'opération de coupe, et un élément de moulage, constitué d'une surface dotée d'un moyen pour retenir l'ébauche sur la matrice, l'ébauche étant formée dans l'empreinte définie par le poinçon et la matrice.

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