US 12,459,072 B2
Apparatus and method for lens processing and processing device and measuring device for lenses
Gunter Schneider, Marburg (DE); Klaus Hofmann, Wehrheim (DE); Klaus Krämer, Dautphetal-Friedensdorf (DE); and Sebastian Schneider, Marburg (DE)
Assigned to SCHNEIDER GmbH & Co. KG, Fronhausen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/269,924
Filed by SCHNEIDER GmbH & Co. KG, Fronhausen (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 4, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/073599
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/049052, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 006 980.0 (DE), filed on Sep. 4, 2018; and application No. 10 2018 007 463.4 (DE), filed on Sep. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0316414 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. B24B 13/005 (2006.01)
CPC B24B 13/0055 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus configured for lens processing, comprising:
at least one buffer area configured to handle at least one transport box,
at least one measuring device,
at least one processing device,
at least one conveying device,
at least one handling device, and
a common housing, the at least one measuring device, the at least one processing device, and the at least one conveying device located inside the common housing,
the common housing having a partition wall, the partition wall located between and separating the at least one measuring device and the at least one processing device,
wherein the common housing is subdivided by the partition wall into a measuring area and a processing area, wherein in the measuring area, the at least one measuring device is provided, and the at least one processing device is arranged in the processing area,
wherein the at least one conveying device is provided between the at least one measuring device and the at least one processing device, and the at least one conveying device passes through the partition wall,
wherein the at least one handling device is provided between the at least one buffer area, the at least one measuring device and the at least one conveying device in such a way that the at least one measuring device, the at least one conveying device and the at least one processing device are arranged or can be arranged in any number and/or orientation with respect to one another, and
wherein the transfer of lenses to be processed from their transport boxes to a selectable measuring device, from the measuring device to a selectable conveying device, as well as the transfer of finished processed lenses from the respective conveying device back to their transport boxes is carried out via the at least one handling device.