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AssigneeJohnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
InventorsWallace Anthony Martin, Jonathan Patrick Adams, Finn Thrige Andersen, Ture Kindt-Larsen, Jeffrey Eldon Steven, Craig William Walker, Daniel Tsu-Fang Wang, Michael Francis Widman
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An apparatus for filling and assembling mold parts for a contact lens includes a first automated station for receiving a plurality of front curve contact lens mold parts and depositing in each front curve mold a predetermined amount of a polymerizable monomer or monomer mixture, and, a second automated station for receiving the plurality of front curve mold parts and assembling each front curve mold part with a back curve mold part under vacuum to prevent entrapment of gas between the mold parts. The front curve mold parts are transported to the first and to the second automated stations by a pallet having registration guides that cooperate with the second station to register the pallet prior to assembly of the mold parts.
An apparatus for filling and assembling mold parts for a contact lens, said apparatus comprising;
An apparatus for assembling front and back curve mold parts to form a contact lens, wherein each of said front curve mold parts has been filled with a predetermined quantity of a polymerizable hydrogel, said mold parts being supplied to said apparatus on one or more pallets, said apparatus comprising:
A method of filling and assembling a pair of mold parts with a polymerizable monomer or monomer mixture to form a contact lens, said method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.