US 12,485,514 B2
Block mold and apparatus for blocking a lens
Gunter Schneider, Marburg (DE); and Klaus Hofmann, Wehrheim (DE)
Assigned to Schneider GmbH & Co. KG, Fronhausen (DE)
Filed by Schneider GmbH & Co. KG, Fronhausen (DE)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/732,122.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 002 381.1 (DE), filed on May 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0355434 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B24B 13/005 (2006.01); B24B 55/02 (2006.01)
CPC B24B 13/0052 (2013.01) [B24B 13/0057 (2013.01); B24B 55/02 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus configured to block a lens on a block piece by a block material, the apparatus comprising:
a block station;
a loading device configured to feed a lens to be blocked to the block station;
a charging device configured to charge the block station with a block piece; and
a block material feeding device configured to feed block material to the block station,
wherein the block station comprises a block mold configured to laterally delimit a space, to be filled by the block material feeding device with block material, between the lens and the block piece and,
wherein the block mold has a plurality of block openings for forming different block sizes.