Contact lens edge finishing machine

Claim 1

A machine for finishing a contact lens and the like comprising a pair of opposed axially aligned inwardly directed rotating spindles each including a resilient contact lens holding means fixedly attached at the innermost ends thereof for sandwiching and firmly holding the lens therewith between said spindles, one of said spindles including lateral leverage means for moving said holding means from a first position whereby the sandwiched lens is bindingly held stationary with respect to said spindles, one of said spindles including lens centering means circumjacent thereto for accurately concentrically positioning the lens between said holding means of said spindles while said holding means are held in said first position by said leverage means, a motor rotatably driving said spindles including positive drive means for synchronically rotating said spindles, cutting means including knife-like edges for substantially wrapping around the peripheral edge of the contact lens; means movably supporting said cutting means for laterally adjusting said cutting means for selective engagement thereof with the circumferential terminal edge, the posterior surface, and the anterior surface of the lens for respectively reducing the diameter and the thickness of the lens adjacent the periphery thereof; polishing means, a motor rotatably driving said polishing means, means movably supporting said rotating polishing means having an inner and an outer end, oscillating means, a motor driving said oscillating means, said means supporting said polishing means adjacent the inner end thereof movably supporting said rotating polishing means; said polishing support means including lateral adjusting means adjacent the inner end thereof for laterally adjusting said polishing means to selectively engage said polishing means with the circumferential terminal edge, the posterior surface and the anterior surface of the lens for finishing the respective outermost circumferential edge and the peripheral surfaces thereof; and said polishing support means adjacent the outer end thereof movably engaging said oscillating means for lateral shifting of the rotating axis of said polishing means so as to cyclically engage a portion thereof with the respective posterior and anterior surfaces adjacent the periphery of the rotating contact lens.