Gripper device for releasably holding a lens, a handling system and a machine for processing lenses

A gripper device for releasably holding a lens during a lens processing process, the gripper device comprising two gripping parts facing each other and defining a receiving space extending in a receiving plane therebetween to receive a lens,

• wherein the gripping parts are arranged to be relatively moveable to each other to change a distance therebetween to thus increase or decrease a size of the receiving space to clamp the received lens between the gripping parts,
• wherein one of the gripping parts comprises at least one gripping element, and the other one of the gripping parts comprises two gripping elements being distanced from each other and each facing the at least one gripping element so that the two gripping elements are exposed towards the receiving space, respectively,
• wherein the other one of the gripping parts comprises a carrier, wherein the two gripping elements are both arranged on the carrier in a relatively fixed position with respect to each other, and
• wherein the carrier is swivelly arranged about a swivel axis extending orthogonally to the receiving plane, wherein both of the two gripping elements are positioned offset from the swivel axis to rock around the swivel axis when the carrier swivels around the swivel axis.