A finishing and coating apparatus is configured for power polishing optical components. The apparatus includes a housing, a substrate holder, a vacuum pump system, a laser, and a coating source. The housing defines a chamber and the substrate holder is disposed within the chamber and configured to hold one or more optical components. The vacuum pump system is configured to create a vacuum within the chamber. The laser includes a laser engine and a laser beam delivery apparatus configured to direct a beam from the laser engine toward the one or more optical components. The laser is configured to finish the one or more optical components prior to coating the one or more optical components.

Disclosed is a production system for spectacle lenses made from spectacle lens blanks, having a left-hand outer transport track, multiple left-hand processing devices which are arranged on the left-hand side next to the left-hand outer transport track, a right-hand outer transport track, and a central transport track which is arranged between the left-hand outer transport track and the right-hand outer transport track. The transport direction of the left-hand outer transport track and the transport direction of the right-hand outer transport track are identical, and the transport direction of the central transport track is opposite to the transport directions of the left-hand outer transport track and the right-hand outer transport track or can be reversed. The multiple right-hand processing devices are arranged on the right-hand side next to the right-hand outer transport track. A processing device pair made of left-hand and right-hand processing devices is paired with a transfer device.

A method and a system for processing optical lenses in which the lenses are conveyed to individual processing apparatuses or processing lines corresponding to an assignment. The assignment takes into consideration maintenance that is due.

A finishing and coating apparatus combines finishing and coating optical components into one vacuum apparatus. The apparatus includes a vacuum system, a substrate holder, a finisher including a laser engine and a beam delivery apparatus, and a coating source. The finisher is configured to finish the optical components prior to coating the optical components. The finisher includes a laser engine and a laser beam delivery apparatus configured to direct a beam from the laser engine toward each of the optical components.

There is provided a surfacing station for processing of surfaces of optical elements as workpieces, including a processing unit configured to process surfaces of optical elements; a controller unit configured to communicate with a database containing processing protocols, which can be carried out by the surfacing station, and to control operation of the processing unit in accordance with the processing protocols; and an identification tag base configured to communicate with the controller unit and configured to determine identification tags of consumable items used by the surfacing station, the controller unit being configured to enable a surfacing protocol for processing of the optical elements as workpieces in function of an identified consumable item.

A device for processing spectacle lenses has a work chamber, which is accessible by way of an opening and in which a workpiece mount and at least one tool mount are opposite one another and movable relative to one another so that a processing region of a tool held at the tool mount can be brought into processing engagement with a workpiece held at the workpiece mount and in processing engagement can be guided over the workpiece. For recognition of wear at the tool, a sensor equipment with at least one contactlessly operating sensor arrangement is provided and is movable outside the work chamber between a protected rest position and a detecting position. In the detecting position the sensor equipment is constructed to detect at the processing region of the tool held at the tool mount an unacceptable deviation beyond a predetermined amount from a desired geometry.

A method of preparing individual spectacle lenses (L) in accordance with a prescription order comprises the steps of: (i) blocking, a provided lens blank (LR) as workpiece on a block piece provided from a plurality of block pieces (B) from a block piece store (BL), (ii) processing the blocked lens blank at least at a second surface so as to obtain a blocked, processed spectacle lens (L) as workpiece, and (iii) deblocking the processed spectacle lens from the block piece, wherein the workpiece, optionally in the blocked state, is transported between the steps (i) to (iii) in one of a plurality of provided transport boxes (T). In the method, the block pieces prior to the step (i) of blocking are stored in the transport boxes in the block piece store and, for the step (i) of blocking, are provided in the transport boxes from the block piece store.

There is provided a surfacing station for processing of surfaces of optical elements as workpieces, including a processing unit configured to process surfaces of optical elements; a controller unit configured to communicate with a database containing processing protocols, which can be carried out by the surfacing station, and to control operation of the processing unit in accordance with the processing protocols; and an identification tag base configured to communicate with the controller unit and configured to determine identification tags of consumable items used by the surfacing station, the controller unit being configured to enable a surfacing protocol for processing of the optical elements as workpieces in function of an identified consumable item.

The method includes applying glue onto one surface of one component of the tool placed in a support of a first supporting member and/or onto one surface of another component of the tool placed in a support of a second supporting member while the support of the first supporting member and the support of the second supporting member are side by side; then driving the first supporting member and the second supporting member relative to one another to a second position where the support of the first supporting member and the support of the second supporting member are aligned; and then pressing the first supporting member and the second supporting member towards one another for applying onto each other the one surface of the one component and the one surface of the another component.

A polishing device for polishing curved lens faces of optical lenses has a workpiece holder for receiving an optical lens and a polishing tool. The polishing tool has a support element, an elastic substructure and a curved polishing surface on the elastic substructure. The polishing tool, with the polishing surface, is driven in a rotating manner about a rotation axis, the workpiece holder being driven in a rotating manner about a first axis, in order to rotate the optical lens. A distance between the workpiece holder and the polishing tool is adjustable along a second axis. An offset between the workpiece holder and the polishing device is adjustable along a third axis, which is aligned transversely in relation to the first axis. A pitch angle between the rotation axis and the first axis is adjustable by tilting about a fourth axis. A method of operating the device is also disclosed.