Abstract:
Casting a glass major portion of a multifocal lens blank over a glass segment portion of the blank or impressing the segment into the major portion during or immediately after casting. The glass for the major is selected to coincide in viscosity with the segment glass within a range of 105 to 109 poises at least at one temperature, and that above the crossover point the viscosity of the segment glass is higher than the viscosity of the major glass at the same temperature.
Abstract:
PHOSPHATE GLASSES FOR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS ARE PRODUCED BY AN IMPROVED METHOD IN WHICH THE CERAMIC UTENSILS UTILIZED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE GLASS ARE FORMED OF TIN OXIDE.
Abstract:
Tubing of short glass is provided by casting the glass in a tubular mold under a vacuum. The basic principle of operation is similar to that utilized in the Torricelli barometer. That is, pressure on the surface of the melt forces the molten glass into a tubular mold to a height determined by the difference in pressure between the ambient over the surface of the melt and that remaining in the mold.
Abstract:
Laser glass which has a low loss coefficient and is highly resistant to internal damage resulting from inclusions is produced in a ceramic crucible where the crucible and the associated ceramic stirrer are prepared such that the surfaces thereof are essentially free of reducing components.
Abstract:
THE INVENTION RELATES TO A SERIES OF NEW GLASSES OF THE LOW CROWN AND LOW FLINT TYPE BUT WITH REFRACTIVE INDICES LOWER THAN THOSE PREVIOUSLY OBTAINABLE AND WITH IMPROVED SPECTRAL TRANSMISSON. THE CRUX OF THE INVENTION PROVIDES FOR THE CONTROLLED INCLUSION OF AN EFFECTIVE AMOUNT OF MERCURY NITRATE IN GLASS BATCH COMPOSITIONS.
Abstract:
Nondestructive marking of plastic artificial intraocular lenses for coding purposes. Exposure with ultraviolet radiation of portions of a lens surface forming boundaries of desired coding characters or similar exposure only of areas forming the characters themselves produces a differential in refractive index of the material of the lens wherewith detection and reading of the coding may be accomplished before and/or after intraocular implantation.
Abstract:
MULTIFOCAL LENSES AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME A multifocal lens formed of laminated high and relatively low index thermoplastic ophthalmic lens materials. A flat laminate is slumped, pressed or otherwise formed to a spherically or aspherically meniscus shape so as to similarly shape the highlow refractive index interface of the laminate. Ocular and object surfaces of the multifocal lens are ground to preselected spherical and/or toric curvatures disposed in predetermined angular relationships and proximities to the interface and to each other according to particular multifocusing properties desired of the lens. Polishing of the surfaces and edging of the lens to a desired peripheral configuration completes the product.
Abstract:
An ophthalmic glass lens having a compressively stressed surface zone after ion exchanging which is at least 60 micrometers in depth can be formed from an alkali metal oxide silicate glass comprising by weight about 4 to about 15 percent sodium oxide, about 3 to about 15 percent potassium oxide provided the total amount of sodium, potassium and other alkali metal oxides is up to about 20 percent and about 3 to about 15 percent lanthanum oxide. The ion exchange process can take place at a temperature either above or below the strain point of conventional ophthalmic crown glass to produce satisfactory physical properties in the ophthalmic glass lens.