Abstract: A high volume lens curing system is described. The high volume lens curing system is may be configured to cure multiple eyeglass lenses in a continuous manner. An embodiment of the lens curing system includes an apparatus for preparing an eyeglass lens. The apparatus may include one or more lens curing units and a mold assembly. The second lens curing unit may include a heating system. One or more readers may be coupled to one or more lens curing units. The reader may be configured to read eyeglass lens prescription information from a mold assembly holder. A controller may be coupled to at least one lens curing unit and the reader. The controller may control the operation of the lens curing unit. In some embodiments, the apparatus may include a conveyor system, an annealing unit, an air distributor and/or filters.

Abstract: An elongate threaded rod member comprises a central portion, and two oppositely extending outer portions. The central portion is attached to the periphery of the first plate, is rotatable with respect to the first plate and is prevented from axial movement relative thereto. Each outer portion includes a threaded portion with each having the same threading pitch and density but being in opposite orientation. A threaded connector is secured to the periphery of each second plate with each threaded portion in screw-threaded relation. The threaded portions rotate within each bore an equal an opposite amount, equalizing the distances of each second mold plate from the first mold plate as the apparatus is moved between open and closed positions.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a plastic eyeglass lens includes a coating unit and a lens curing unit. The apparatus is preferably configured to allow the operation of both the coating unit and the lens curing unit. The apparatus may also include a post-cure unit and a controller. The controller is configured to control the operation of the coating unit, the lens curing unit and the post-cure unit. A lens forming composition may include an aromatic containing polyether polyethylenic functional monomer, a photoinitiator, and a coinitiator. The lens forming composition may be cured by the application of activating light or activating light and heat.

Abstract: A display apparatus of an injection molding apparatus has a plurality of display areas on a screen of a display unit so as to perform a profile display of a molding data profile on an individual area basis. A program memory stores a program for defining a plurality of independent display areas on a screen of a display part, a program for arbitrarily relating the molding data to each of the display areas, a program for setting a display start timing to display the molding data profile related to each of the display areas, and a program for displaying the molding data profile related to each of the display areas on an individual area basis. A display control part controls the display part to display the molding data profile independently in the plurality of display areas on an individual area basis.

Abstract: An injection apparatus includes an injection frame; a cylinder member attached to the injection frame; an injection member disposed within the cylinder member such that the same can rotate and can advance and retreat; a rotary slide member attached to the injection member; a stator attached to the injection frame, and a rotor disposed radially inward of the stator to be rotatable relative to the stator. The rotor includes a hollow, cylindrical member disposed radially outward of the rotary slide member and movably relative to the rotary slide member, and a magnet attached to the cylindrical member. In this case, the rotor has a cylindrical member and a magnet and can transmit generated rotation directly to the rotary slide member. Therefore, a transmission mechanism which consists of an output gear, a counter drive gear, a counter driven gear, a rotary member, etc. becomes unnecessary; and generation of noise due to meshing engagement of gears and other components can be prevented.

Abstract: A press apparatus for producing dimensionally accurate pressed articles from a particulate material including a frame (70, 73), which can be connected via respective lower and upper connecting devices (71, 72) to a lower and upper platens of a press, a die holding plate (5) arranged in the frame and preferably rigidly connected with the lower connecting device, in which the die holding plate is displaceable relative to a base body (0), a plurality of punch carriers (1-4), at least one of which is supported on the frame between the die holding plate and the base body so as to be displaceable relative thereto into charging and pressing positions by piston/cylinder drives, and supports (12, 22, 32, 42), which in the final press position support the punch carriers relative to the base body.

Abstract: Adjustable clamping frames for rotary thermoforming machine have movable sets of clamp supporting members which are driven by selectively engageable drive units to carry out a size adjustment at a station in the thermoforming machine.

Abstract: Heating and extruding a polymeric sheet having a predetermined thickness and introducing it into and through a gap between cooling rolls, measuring directly by laser beam and without reflection the gap between the cooling rolls, and controlling the gap to control minimal pressure on the softened and heat-plastified sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming an article from at least one layer of formable material includes a mold for receiving the at least one layer of formable material. The mold has first and second thin mold sections and a seal associated with at least one of the mold sections for effecting a sufficiently sealed relationship between the mold sections. Each mold section has a non-planar configuration, and one mold section has at least one aperture. A vacuum source is in fluid communication with the at least one aperture for applying a vacuum pressure to the at least one aperture when the mold sections are sufficiently sealed together in order to reduce air pressure within the mold. As a result, ambient air pressure is used to forcefully bias the mold sections sufficiently together so as to form the at least one layer of formable material to a contour corresponding to the non-planar configurations of the mold sections.

Abstract: An excessive load detection device for an injection molding machine capable of detecting an excessive load exerted on the injection screw when the screw is driven with resin remaining unmolten in the heating cylinder. An output torque of the servomotor for axially moving the screw is limited to a predetermined value by a torque limiter and the screw is driven to move forward in a direction of injection by a predetermined amount at a predetermined velocity. If reference time elapses before the axial motion of the set amount is completed or a position deviation exceeds a reference value, it is determined that the remaining resin has low fluidity to cause an excessive load on the screw and an alarm is issued. When the axial motion of the screw is completed without an alarm, the screw is moved backward and forward alternately predetermined times. A servomotor for rotating the screw is driven in the same manner to detect an excessive load on the screw.

Abstract: A molding apparatus includes a cavity half and a core half mounted in stacked relation between a press plate and a movable platen. A plurality of core members are slidably mounted in the cavity half and each is connected to an actuator attached to the cavity half. The actuators project outwardly. Each actuator includes at least two sensing switch units for monitoring the limits of the core position. Each sensing unit is a compact relay switch unit having a rugged housing of a length not to exceed two inches to positively prevent interference with the associated components of the molding apparatus. The relay switch unit includes a pair of fixed contacts mounted within the housing and a movable contact located therebetween. A magnetic unit including a high strength target magnet connected to the movable contact and a weak bias magnet mounted within the housing to control the initial position of the target magnet and the movable contact.

Abstract: A failsafe device, or pressure relief mechanism, for a shooting pot actuator in an injection molding machine. The shooting pot actuator has a multiple pusher rods mounted on one, or more, plates. Moving the plate holding the pusher rods depresses the shooting pot injection pistons and injects molten material into a number of mold cavities. To avoid damage to the machine from the pusher rods if an injection piston seizes, a failsafe device is used to mount the pusher rods to the plates. A shearing member is interposed, or sandwiched, between first and second apertures. Typically, the shearing member is a plate that, in normal operating conditions, blocks rearward movement of the pusher rod. However, when a predetermined shear force is applied to the shear plate, the shearing member shears and the pusher rod retracts within the channel, thereby alleviating the pressure.

Abstract: A transfer molding apparatus, wherein a top-half mold and a bottom-half mold form a plurality of cavities interconnected, and wherein a pressure adjuster reduces the pressure of the cavities every time a specified amount of resin is supplied into any of the plurality of cavities.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a stretch blow mold machine includes devices for monitoring the position of a stretch rod with respect to a mold, an air pressure sensor for monitoring air pressure introduced through the stretch rod, and a sensor for monitoring temperature of fluid within a fluid cavity for chilling the mold. The system includes a display for monitoring position data, pressure data, and temperature data generated by the respective sensors.

Abstract: A windshield repair apparatus includes a bridge for holding an injector adjacent to a break area of a windshield. The bridge includes a suction cup for mounting the bridge to the windshield. The bridge includes a pivotally mounted arm which allows for pivotal movement of the injector away from the break area, and a registration system which allows for accurate replacement of the injector over the break area following pivotal movement back toward the break area. A ball plunger and detent mounting arrangement between the pivotally mounted arm and a remainder of the bridge allows for registration. The suction cup includes a vacuum pump for withdrawing air from beneath the suction cup. The injector includes a clip securing a stopper to a body of the injector. The stopper includes a peripheral lip seal at a first end of the stopper which is received by the body. The arm also is pivotally moveable toward and away from the windshield and is controlled by a threaded adjustment mechanism.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for controlling the size of a gap through which material is metered. The gap is defined by a rigid surface and a flexible surface connected to at least one actuator for deforming the flexible surface. A plurality of sensors are positioned along the rigid or flexible surfaces to detect the other of the surfaces and generate signals indicating its position. A computing unit in communication with the plurality of sensors processes the signals to generate a continuous gap measurement profile. The computing system also stores a pre-determined desired gap measurement profile. A control system in communication with the computing unit actuates the actuators to deform the flexible surface to adjust the gap measurement profile to correct any deviation from the desired gap measurement profile.

Abstract: An energy efficient general purpose injection molding employs a hydraulic drive for injection and clamp machine functions and an electric drive for screw recovery. Both drives use AC "squirrel cage" induction motors under vector control. Speed command signals for the vector controls are generated by the machine's controller utilizing state transition and predictive signal techniques to account for motor and motor/pump response latencies. Hydraulic drive efficiency is improved by varying motor speed/pump output to match cycle requirements to retain hydraulic drive advantages for mold clamp and injection functions while improving the electric drive performance for screw recovery.

Abstract: A mold opening and closing mechanism includes an aligning mechanism which has a horizontal mounting plate including a number of vertical openings for the number of molds, that is supported by a pair of spaced vertical uprights secured to the section frame top surface. A plurality of aligning cylinders are located in the vertical openings in the horizontal mounting plate and move parallel with the mold holder motion. Each cylinder includes surfaces configured to mate with the clamping surfaces of the mold holders. The axis of one of the aligning cylinders is held but not clamped at the theoretical centerline so it can move to the actual centerline when the mold holders are located at the advanced clamped closed position.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling a lens-forming structure, the structure having a front mold, a rear mold, and a gasket defining an axially extending bore, including a collet for supporting the gasket so that at least one of the front mold or the rear mold are insertable into the bore thereof, a robotic arm for inserting the front mold into the bore of the gasket, and a piston for inserting the rear mold into the bore of the gasket. The piston axially moves within the bore of the gasket a selected one of the front mold or the rear mold relative to the other mold to a desired one of a plurality of axial separation distances between the molds. Alternatively, the robotic arm can move the selected mold relative to the other mold.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compactor apparatus for compacting granular material, such as granulated activated carbon, when it is laid in a slow sand filter, comprising a plough, a compacting device and a mechanism to provide swivelling of the apparatus in a substantially horizontal plane whereby to compact the material. In the preferred embodiments illustrated, the apparatus is removably mounted on an end of an extensible arm of a tracked vehicle such as a dumper, excavator or digger.

Abstract: A exit chute for a pharmaceutical tablet press machine comprising a first exit chute portion having a first end and a second end wherein the first end is adapted to be secured to the tablet press for receiving tablets formed thereby. A second exit chute portion is provided that has a first end and a second end and the first end is adapted to be removably secured to the second end of the first exit chute portion to form an extended tablet pathway, and the second chute portion includes an aperture therein whereby rejected tablets can be diverted to pass therethrough and accepted tablets will be allowed to pass through the second exit chute portion and out of the second end thereof.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for product recovery of polyolefins, particularly high molecular weight amorphous poly alphaolefins, wherein the use of water during the method is significantly decreased and wherein the intermediate stage of storing and drying the chunk form of the polyolefin is eliminated. Polyolefins produced in a reactor are heated and mixed by sigma blades in a kneader-extruder to remove any unreacted monomer(s). The polyolefin material in a liquid form is then transferred directly to an extruder to further remove any unreacted monomer(s) and catalyst(s). The invention further includes a method of measuring the inventory in a vessel using a gas of known quantity and known thermodynamic properties.

Abstract: An electric motor type injection apparatus for a vertical molding machine which is compact in size and can be installed on a square measure limited is provided. According to this apparatus, an improper movement due to self-weight of injection mechanism members can be prevented, and deviation of a nozzle tip resulting in the cause of damage of a nozzle tip and a gate can be corrected.

Abstract: There is provided a suction system for use in a method of lining the internal surface of a pipe, said suction system comprises a pig receiving device to be attached to an open end of the pipe, a liquid receiving tank connected with the pig receiving device, and a suction pump connected with the liquid receiving tank. Further, a pig detecting device for detecting the passing of a pig is provided between the open end of the pipe and the pig receiving device, a suction force controlling device is provided between the pig receiving device and the liquid receiving tank, and a gas-liquid separation apparatus is provided between the liquid receiving tank and the suction pump.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a stretch blow molding machine includes devices for monitoring the position of a stretch rod with respect to a mold, an air pressure sensor for monitoring air pressure introduced through the stretch rod, and a sensor for monitoring temperature of fluid within a fluid cavity for chilling the mold. The system includes a display for monitoring position data, pressure data, and temperature data generated by the respective sensors.

Abstract: In a powder feed apparatus and a control method thereof, a powder molding press feeds powder from a hopper of the powder feed apparatus to a feeder slidably disposed on a die plate of the press proper. Powder is charged into a die in the die plate. The feeder is electronically controlled to a correct position on the die. Powder is fed from a powder feed apparatus into a feeder slidably disposed on a die plate of a press proper and a feeder drive motor is servo-controlled by an output obtained by comparing detection outputs from a position detector for detecting the vertical position of the die plate of the press proper and a position detector for detecting the position of the feeder in its sliding direction. As a result, it is possible to avoid the trouble of changing cams or inserting insert cams every time the shape of the compact being molded changes. It is also possible to easily make changes to the movement speed of the feeder in correspondence with changes to the compact.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for forming stretch blow molded containers having uniform sidewall thickness from physical symmetric parisons. Parisons are heated non-uniformly by rotating at a non-uniform rate in a heating station. A sensor determines the angular orientation of the parisons emerging from the heating station. Each parison is angularly reoriented at a repositioning station prior to introduction into a stretch blow molding station having non-round interior surfaces, so that the temperature profile of each parison corresponds with differential expansion required to form the desired non-round container.

Abstract: Windshield repair tool has an injector for injecting liquid resin into fractures and pits in broken windshields. The injector has an injector cylinder and a plunger that applies pressure to resin in the cylinder for injecting the resin into the fracture or pit. The plunger itself includes an outer sleeve and an inner plunger component biased forwardly in the outer sleeve by a coil spring. The pressure on the resin is monitored and can be controlled according to the amount that the plunger stem projects from the outer end of the plunger sleeve. This avoids insufficient or excessive filling of the fracture or pit.

Abstract: A slide bottom dead center position compensating device comprises an angle sensor for detecting a crank angle, a contact sensor for detecting contact between stoppers on molds or, instead of the contact sensor, a position sensor for detecting that a slide has reached a preset control position near the bottom dead center of the slide, a controller, a setting unit for setting a control condition for the slide bottom dead center position, and a bottom dead center compensating unit. The controller determines a crankshaft rotational angle during the contact between the stoppers or a crankshaft rotational angle under a condition of the slide descending from the control position, calculates a slide compensation amount necessary for making the determined crankshaft rotational angle equal to a control rotational angle preset by the setting unit, and compensates the bottom dead center position of the slide through a bottom dead center compensating unit in accordance with the calculated slide compensation amount.

Abstract: An injection-molding assembly has a fixed mold plate carrying a centering ring, a fixed mold half carrying a centering ring snugly interfitted with the fixed-plate centering ring, a movable mold plate carrying a centering ring, and a movable mold half carrying a centering ring snugly interfitted with the movable-plate centering ring. One of the rings is formed of an outer ring part having a substantially circular outer periphery and a substantially circular inner periphery and of an inner ring part having a substantially circular outer periphery and a Substantially circular inner periphery. The outer periphery of one of the ring parts has a center of curvature offset radially from a center of curvature of the respective inner periphery. The annular parts can be angularly displaced and can be clamped relative to each other.

Abstract: An alignment assembly for aligning heating lamps in a heating lamp assembly intended for use in an oven of a blow molding machine, the heating lamp assembly having a chassis removably positionable in at least one preselected location in the machine and including a vertical array of generally horizontally disposed lamps held in position by a lamp holder coupled to each end of each lamp. The alignment assembly has a baseplate including a coupling for coupling the chassis to the baseplate. A pair of standards are coupled to another plate movable relative to the baseplate projecting upward therefrom for holding a vertical scale and a plurality of vertically positionable and horizontally reciprocable gages indicate the relative position of the lamp holders.

Abstract: An arrangement is provided for a method of manufacturing optically readable discs in which a substrate is placed on a movable substrate carrier and by moving the substrate carrier it is subsequently placed in a centered position on a previously applied amount of replication material on a mold. In this position the substrate is fixed to the mold, after which the substrate carrier releases the substrate and the replication layer in the structure zone is solidified.

Abstract: An injection pressure monitoring method in which the correlations between a screw position, injection pressure, and cavity fill for an injection molding machine are monitored and displayed on a screen. The pressure for the position of a screw is graphically displayed on the screen, and a picture of a cavity is also displayed on the screen. By inputting the screw position, the pressure for the screw position is monitored, and at the same time, the resin filling state in the cavity corresponding to this screw position is displayed as an image.

Abstract: Tooling for facing a wall includes a plurality of cavities which are formed by four blades, each of the cavities corresponding to various brick sizes. Six lines of interconnected cavities are attached to a cross beam. Adjacent cavities and lines are spaced from another by a predetermined dimension. Unset settable building material is mixed with appropriate colouring and waterproofing agent and is applied to a wall to form an outer layer. The surface thereof is sponged to produce a brick like surface relief. The tooling is pressed into the outer layer to impress a pattern resembling brickwork. Unset material is sucked from the joint line space between adjacent cavities and the layer is allowed to set. Then, mortar is added to the joint line. Once the mortar has set, the final outer layer has a true brick finish that resembles a real brick wall. The unset settable material can be applied to damaged or wood walls so that a true brick finish can be given to a wall in a quick, simple and cost effective manner.

Abstract: A pressure molding apparatus for molten resin in which an oil-pressurized cylinder internally holding an end of gate pin can freely move in compatibility with thermal elongation or contraction of a manifold pipe. In addition, a limit switch to be activated by the descending movement of this cylinder in correspondence with the descending movement of the gate pin is interlinked to a molten-resin supply source. By provision of these mechanisms, molten resin can smoothly be delivered to the interior of a molding unit without obstruction. Since substantial space is provided around this cylinder, pipes can easily be installed. Furthermore the inner later surface of the gate aperture on the side of the gate pin is provided with an obtuse angle wider than the tip angle of the gate pin, and a tapered hole having an adequate length and tapered diameter expanding itself from the gate aperture to the inner surface of the molding unit is provided.

Abstract: Equipment, in particular pressure gelling equipment, is provided to fill one or more casting molds with castable, liquid materials of which the components are fed by pumps through closable conduits to at least one plunger-cylinder system from where the components are moved to a mixing chamber and from there to the particular casting mold. In order to process especially abrasive casting materials of high viscosity and short pot life, the invention provides that at least one plunger-cylinder system be operated at a pressure substantially higher than are the pumps and that the mixing-chamber volume be comparatively slight.

Abstract: A continuously operating press for the production of particle boards, fiber boards and similar wood boards and plastic boards, wherein a spherical geometrical deformation of the press/heating platen in the longitudinal and transverse directions with the hydraulic actuators in positive or non-positive engagement with the press/heating platen is set during start-up or production by means of different actuating forces in the longitudinal and transverse directions, the setting process being independent of the reaction forces of pressing stock, wherein, to allow a convex bending deformation to be set at the maximum pressing force, the central actuators in each row of actuators are dimensioned to give 105% to about 150% of the maximum pressing force in relation to the outer actuators, and wherein each row of actuators has a position sensor system comprising a feeler rod, a reference gauge bar, a lever mechanism and a measured-value transmitter with a position sensor for the press-nip actual value in the center of t

Abstract: An acceleration pressure is used as set value for the movement of the mass which is to be shifted, such as the mold clamping unit in an injection molding machine. For this purpose it is proposed to use preferably an electrically modulated pressure control valve for the pressure regulating device in the pressure drive system. Even with extremely short acceleration periods resonance oscillations are avoided, which until now prohibited the reduction of the acceleration period. With computing devices the movement of the mass can now be really controlled in relation to a selected velocity profile and/or a position profile or at least a part thereof.

Abstract: In an apparatus for resin transfer molding, the resin is introduced into a heated resin pot, and a piston member is driven through the resin pot to displace the resin into a heated resin line. The temperature of the resin in the resin pot is substantially constant, and is above room temperature but below the catalyzing temperature of the resin. The preheated resin flows from the resin line into a preheater, which heats the resin to molding temperature and catalyzes the resin, and the catalyzed resin is then introduced into the mold cavity of a resin transfer mold containing a structural preform. The resin is maintained at a substantially constant pressure within the heated resin line, and the movement of the piston member is continuously monitored during the resin transfer process. The resin transfer process is terminated when the rate of movement of the piston member decreases below a predetermined minimum value approaching zero.

Abstract: An extrusion die includes a die body defining a manifold therein terminating at an outlet and first and second relatively moveable plugs disposed in the manifold each having a plug edge where the plug edges together define a profile. The first and second plugs are moveable to first and second plug positions, respectively, in the manifold and indicators are disposed outside of the die body for indicating the first and second plug positions and the profile.

Abstract: A tire curing press has a cross beam that carries the upper mold section and is moved to open and close the press. When the press is closed, a cross beam locking mechanism located in the middle of the cross beam holds the cross beam to the tire press base that carries the bottom mold section. The locking mechanism prevents bending or bowing of the cross beam which would otherwise adversely affect the quality of the tires produced in the press.

Abstract: A method for detecting mold plate information comprises, in a preferred embodiment, detecting external physical indicia (112) identify a mold plate. The external physical indicia (112) are preferably a pattern of holes or absence of holes formed in a corner protrusion (110), attached to the corner of a mold plate (104). The holes or absence thereof represent a binary sequence identifying the mold plate (104). Preferably, the holes are optically detected by detectors (204) mounted in the guide rail (202) of a mold press.

Abstract: A closing unit for injection mold machines is disclosed which generally includes two end plates, guide crosspieces connecting the end plates at a distance from one another, an intermediate plate which is parallel to the end plates and displaceable longitudinally relative to the guide crosspieces and moving cylinders which abut an end plate and act at the intermediate plate via their piston rods. The moving cylinders also displace the intermediate plate along the guide crosspiece in the closing and opening direction to vary its distance from the other end plate. The intermediate plate and the other end plate form a gripping plate for the two mold halves of a form tool which is brought into its closing position by the two gripping plates. Increased closing force may be applied to the form tool at a central die via a pressure cushion insertable between one end plate and the intermediate plate.

Abstract: Flanges are provided on a screw casing and a cylinder member of a screw driving unit in opposition to each other, and coupled with each other with fastening bolts. An adjusting ring is screwed onto the outer circumference of one of the flanges. The screw member is moved together with the ring in a backward direction until the end of the screw hits. The ring is rotated thereafter to bring it into contact with a side of the other flange, where a datum position is established. The cylinder member is then retreated an adequate amount in this state, and the ring is moved by a specified quantity. The specified quantity, represents the stroke quantity and bolts are fastened so that the ring comes into contact with the side of the other flange. The screw is thereby adjusted in its stroke.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of article manufacture and more particularly to an apparatus for removing the flashing from a manufactured article. The apparatus includes at least one gripping unit for gripping a portion of the flashing. The gripping unit is switched by a pneumatic actuator between an open and a clamping configuration. A support is provided upon which each gripping unit is movably mounted, and an indexing actuator is provided for indexing each gripping unit along the support between a rest position displaced from the support surface and a clamping position adjacent to the support surface. A control unit is provided for controlling the operation of the pneumatic actuator and the indexing actuator to effect removal of the flashing. The control unit causes each gripping unit, when in the clamping position, to switch from the open configuration to the clamping configuration to grip the flashing.

Abstract: An operating time analyzing apparatus capable of automatically determining, storing, and analyzing the operating time of an injection molding machine for each operating condition. This apparatus detects the operating conditions of the injection molding machine through internal processing with a PMCCPU 14 for the sequence control of the injection molding machine. While specific operating conditions are detected, fine times .DELTA.t, execution cycles of the internal processing, are added in succession. By doing this, integrated time for each operating condition, that is, operating time for each operating condition, is calculated. This operating time is stored in a nonvolatile RAM 8 for each operating condition of the injection molding machine through the processing by the PMCCPU 14.

Abstract: An apparatus for mating a finished ophthalmic lens includes a pre-manufactured lens or lens wafer as a part of a mold for making the finished lens. A polymerizable lens material is injected between the lens or lens wafer and a conventional mold member and a trio of indexers are used to rotate the conventional mold member relative to the lens wafer, to adjust the spatial relationship between the conventional mold member and the lens or lens wafer, and to control the angular relation between them. The assembly is subjected to irradiation and the radiation cures the polymerizable lens material and fuses it to the lens wafer so that the lens or lens wafer becomes an integral part of the finished lens. The apparatus produces a finished lens in less than one hour.

Abstract: A reference pin (150) is provided on a bottom die (108) of a molding device (100). A lead frame (3) is carried with a chucking device (120) attached to an X-Y table mechanism (110). A hole (132) is formed in a stage (131) of the X-Y table mechanism. Respective images of the hole and the pin are detected by a TV camera (142) to control the relative position of the bottom die and the lead frame by driving the X-Y stage.

Abstract: In a method for assembling a lead frame between two plate-mold cavity plates, a lead frame that includes a plurality of integrated circuit chips mounted spaced at intervals in a row thereon, is placed on a bottom one of the cavity plates which has a row of cavities spaced apart at the same intervals as the integrated circuit chips, each chip being positioned over a corresponding cavity. The bottom cavity plate is held about horizontal on the base plate of an assembly fixture. Two short guide pins extend upward from the cavity plate, the lead frame having two pilot holes directly above the guide pins. Accurate positioning of the lead frame will permit penetration of the pilot holes by the guide pins.

Abstract: An extruder head has an inner die member (5) housed in a supporting body (2) and provided with a central duct (6) continuously passed through by a semifinished product (7). An outer die member (9) exhibits a shaped housing (10) defining, in cooperation with the inner die member (5), an outflow port (11) for the mixture to be applied to the semifinished product (7). The shaped housing (10) is defined in a centering element (12) rotatably housed, according to an oblique and incident axis relative to the axis of the central duct (6), within an intermediate collar (13) rotating in the supporting body (2) in coaxial relation with the central duct itself. By rotating the centering element (12), the outflow port (11) moves from a centered position to a maximum-eccentricity position with respect to the central duct (6). The rotation of the intermediate collar (13) modifies the orientation of the common plane containing the axes of the outflow port (11) and central duct (6).