CA1098665A - Mold for manufacturing contact lenses - Google Patents
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A mold for manufacturing silicone contact lenses is provided. The mold comprises a male section and a female section plated with chromium or nickel which when joined together come into contact with each other only at a portion at which the mold surface of one section becomes continuous with that of the other section to define a cavity therebetween. The contact between both sections is not in a flat-to-flat fashion but in a line or edge-to-edge fashion so that a contact lens whose surface and edge are completely freed from flashes or irregularities can be obtained. Further, with the use of chromium or nickel plated mold of the present invention, a contact lens of excellent quality can be obtained from a silicone resin which is affinitive to chromium and nickel.
A mold for manufacturing silicone contact lenses is provided. The mold comprises a male section and a female section plated with chromium or nickel which when joined together come into contact with each other only at a portion at which the mold surface of one section becomes continuous with that of the other section to define a cavity therebetween. The contact between both sections is not in a flat-to-flat fashion but in a line or edge-to-edge fashion so that a contact lens whose surface and edge are completely freed from flashes or irregularities can be obtained. Further, with the use of chromium or nickel plated mold of the present invention, a contact lens of excellent quality can be obtained from a silicone resin which is affinitive to chromium and nickel.
Description
MOLD FOR MANUFACTURING CONTACT LENSES
Field of Invention The present invention relates to a mold for manufacturing silicone con-tact lenses and, more particu-larly, to a mold of the type comprising a pair ofmold halves which when joined together form a cavity therebetween into which is cast a flowable contact lens material.
Description of Prior Art The conventional contact lens has been manu-factured in such a manner that a roughly shaped contact lens of a comparatively hard material such as polymethacrylate is cut and ground to a finished ; lens and, therefore, no mold has been needed for its manufacture. Further, it has been considered difficult to use a mold for lens manufacturing purposes since .. . .
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when it is molded~ For -these and other reasons, no satisfactory mold has ever been developed in the field of contact lens manufacture. However, it has been found of late that the so called hard contact lens which is made of hard material like polymethyle methacrylate has such drawbacks that when in use it irritates the eye of a patient and moreover, due to its poor oxygen .
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impossible. To overcome these disadvantages, a contact lens of silicone resin which is rich in flexibility and excellent in oxygen permeability has been proposed.
However, the lens of this type is too soft to cut or grind in its hard refrigerated state in vain because it again becomes soft due to a rise in temperature as a result of friction during processing. Fur-ther, the characteristics of the silicone resin vary between a state in which it is hard and a state in which i-t is soft, so that it has no-t been possible to manufacture from this material a wearable contact lens to a patientls satisfaction. Although the U.S. Patents issued to H.D. Condon, Patent No. 3,221,083 issued November 20, 19~5 and C.C Robinson, Patent No. 3,915,609 issued October 28, 1975, respectively, disclose molds of the type similar to that of the present invention, these molds can not more or less escape the above mentioned disadvantages in that the mold of Condon's patent is apparently so simply formed that a con-tact lens produced thereby must be subjected to further steps of processing such as cutting and grinding while Robinsonls patent, which shows some improvements over the former, is rather directed to a mold construction suitable for radiation of a high energy electron beam.
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Summary of Invention The mold according to the present invention comprises a pair of metallic mold halves, a male sec-tion and a female section. The male section has on its upper side a convex mold surface for forming the posterior surface oE a lens and a peripheral portion in the shape of a tapered protrusion with a sharp edge extending above the edge of the convex mold sur-face and the female sec-tion has on its lower side a concave mold surface for forming the anterior surface of the lens and a curved peripheral portion surrounding the former.
With such an arrangement, one of the important features of the present invention resides in that both .; male and female sections of the mold can be joined together such that the tapered edge of the peripheral portion of the former comes into contact with the edge of the concave mold surface of the latter in a line or edge-to-edge fashion to thereby provide a mold cavity .
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Another important feature of the present invention resides in that the mold surface of each section is plated with chromium or nickel so that a contact lens having high surface optical quality can be manufac-tured, especially with the use of a silicone resin as a material therefor which has a strong ; affinity for chromium and nickel.
Accordingly, an aspect of the present inven-tion is to provide a mold for manufacturing silicone contact lenses in their final form without applying further lS steps of processing thereon such as cutting and grinding~
Another aspect of the present invention is to provlde a mold of the above character which can be manu-factured in a simple manner and at low cost and which can be used semi-permanently.
This invention thus provides a mold for manufacturing a silicone contact lens characterized in that~the~mold comprises a male section having a convex mold surface and a female section having a concave mold surface to thereby define a mold cavity therebetween, said convex and concave mold surfaces being plated with - :
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a metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, hard chromium and nickel, the edge of said male section adjacent said convex mold surface turning upwardly and inwardly -toward said concave mold surface of said female section so as to have a configuration suitable for forming the edge of the lens, said male section and said female section, when joined t:ogether, coming into edge-to-edge contact with each other only at a por-tion of the mold cavity lying above and adjacen-t the outer edge of said mold cavity.
Brief Explanation of Drawing The present invention will be explained in detail hereunder with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:
Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a mold for manufacturing silicone contact lenses accord-ing to the present invention;
Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of a conventional mold for manufacturing contact lenses;
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Detailed Description of Invention _ _ . _ _ As shown in Figure 1, a preferred embodiment of the mold according -to the present invention comprises a pair of mold halves, -tha-t is, a male section 1 and a female section 2 both of which is made of a metallic material preferably of brass Further, the male section 1 is provided on its upper side with a central convex mold surface S1, for forming -the posterior surface of a lens 6 and a peripheral portion 3 in the shape of a tapered protrusion with a sharp edge extending above the entire edge of the surface Sl. As will be clear from the drawing, the internal surface of the peripheral portion 3, which is continuous with the surface S1, constitutes itself a mold surface for forming in part the anterior surface of the lens 6 when both sections 1 and 2 are joined together. On the contrary, the female section 2 is provided on its lower side a central concave mold surface S2 for forming the anterior surface of the lens in cooperation with the peripheral portion 3 of the male section 1 and a curved peripheral portion 4 surround-ing the former. Further, the surfaces Sl and S2 with the inclusion of the internal surface of the portion 3 of the section 1 are plated with chromium, preferably hard chromium, or nickel which is closely related to the sllicone resln used in the present inventi`~pn.
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. ~, .: -With the above arran~ement, when bo-th sections 1 and 2 are joined toge-ther, the edge of the peripheral portion 3 of the former comes into contact with the edge of the surface S2 of the latter as at 7 and/or 7' not .in a flat-to-flat fashion as shown in Figure 2 (which shows a typical conventional mold structure) but in a line or edge-to-edge fashion as shown in Figure 1.
This manner of contact has a particular advantage in that a melting lens material flowing outside the mold through a fine gap between the opposing contac-t surfaces of both sections is cut easily and cleanly without forming any flash extending outside the mold cavity from -the lens edge since the contact area between bo-th sections is kept at minimum, and with a mold of such structure only, the steps of cutting and grinding for the lens can be dispensed with. For example, Figure 3(a) shows an example of a lens manufactured by -the mold according to the present invention while Figure 3(b) shows that of a lens manufactured by the conventional mold as shown 20. in Figure 2. Further, it will be more preferable in this case that, as shown in Figure 1, the edge of the mold `~ cavity which corresponds to the edge 5 of the lens is rounded in the male section and the contact portion 7 and/or 7I comes to lie above, and in the vicinity of, the edge of the mold so that the lens edge cor~esponding ~-- ~ .
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~' thereto can be preEormed and -the con-tact lens as well as the mold can be manufactured more easily and simply than otherwise in view of the fact that the contact lens has extremely A minute structure with the radius of curvature at the lens edge 5 being as small as 0.13 mm and the wearing conditions oi the lens do depend much on the conditions of finish t:hereat.
In Figure 1, a numeral 8 indicates a hard metallic plate half embedded in each of the sections 1 and 2 which plate is provided to prevent the mold from deform-ation or damage when a mechanical force is applied on the mold to press same. A support 9 provided around the side wall of the mold is adopted to cause the center of the anterior surface of the lens 6 to coincide with that of the posterior surface thereof in a simple manner the failure of which would make the lens useless. A hole 10 formed in the support 9 is adopted to pull out air from the mold cavity. By the way, as regards the manner of contact between both male and female sections 1 and 2 of the mold according to the present invention should not be construed so strictly as above described and, therefore, a slight degree of flatness in their contact should also ke considered included in the scope of the present inven-tion provided that no rugged or irregular formation of the
Field of Invention The present invention relates to a mold for manufacturing silicone con-tact lenses and, more particu-larly, to a mold of the type comprising a pair ofmold halves which when joined together form a cavity therebetween into which is cast a flowable contact lens material.
Description of Prior Art The conventional contact lens has been manu-factured in such a manner that a roughly shaped contact lens of a comparatively hard material such as polymethacrylate is cut and ground to a finished ; lens and, therefore, no mold has been needed for its manufacture. Further, it has been considered difficult to use a mold for lens manufacturing purposes since .. . .
I the polymethacrylate contracts to a great degree . .
when it is molded~ For -these and other reasons, no satisfactory mold has ever been developed in the field of contact lens manufacture. However, it has been found of late that the so called hard contact lens which is made of hard material like polymethyle methacrylate has such drawbacks that when in use it irritates the eye of a patient and moreover, due to its poor oxygen .
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impossible. To overcome these disadvantages, a contact lens of silicone resin which is rich in flexibility and excellent in oxygen permeability has been proposed.
However, the lens of this type is too soft to cut or grind in its hard refrigerated state in vain because it again becomes soft due to a rise in temperature as a result of friction during processing. Fur-ther, the characteristics of the silicone resin vary between a state in which it is hard and a state in which i-t is soft, so that it has no-t been possible to manufacture from this material a wearable contact lens to a patientls satisfaction. Although the U.S. Patents issued to H.D. Condon, Patent No. 3,221,083 issued November 20, 19~5 and C.C Robinson, Patent No. 3,915,609 issued October 28, 1975, respectively, disclose molds of the type similar to that of the present invention, these molds can not more or less escape the above mentioned disadvantages in that the mold of Condon's patent is apparently so simply formed that a con-tact lens produced thereby must be subjected to further steps of processing such as cutting and grinding while Robinsonls patent, which shows some improvements over the former, is rather directed to a mold construction suitable for radiation of a high energy electron beam.
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~s~ s overcome the above mentioned disadvantages of the con-ventional contact lens and -to provide a mold capable of producing a silicone contact lens of excellent quality in its final and finished form in a simple manner.
Summary of Invention The mold according to the present invention comprises a pair of metallic mold halves, a male sec-tion and a female section. The male section has on its upper side a convex mold surface for forming the posterior surface oE a lens and a peripheral portion in the shape of a tapered protrusion with a sharp edge extending above the edge of the convex mold sur-face and the female sec-tion has on its lower side a concave mold surface for forming the anterior surface of the lens and a curved peripheral portion surrounding the former.
With such an arrangement, one of the important features of the present invention resides in that both .; male and female sections of the mold can be joined together such that the tapered edge of the peripheral portion of the former comes into contact with the edge of the concave mold surface of the latter in a line or edge-to-edge fashion to thereby provide a mold cavity .
therebetween so that the surface and the edge of the lens . ~.
produced thereby can be prevented from becoming irregularly .
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Another important feature of the present invention resides in that the mold surface of each section is plated with chromium or nickel so that a contact lens having high surface optical quality can be manufac-tured, especially with the use of a silicone resin as a material therefor which has a strong ; affinity for chromium and nickel.
Accordingly, an aspect of the present inven-tion is to provide a mold for manufacturing silicone contact lenses in their final form without applying further lS steps of processing thereon such as cutting and grinding~
Another aspect of the present invention is to provlde a mold of the above character which can be manu-factured in a simple manner and at low cost and which can be used semi-permanently.
This invention thus provides a mold for manufacturing a silicone contact lens characterized in that~the~mold comprises a male section having a convex mold surface and a female section having a concave mold surface to thereby define a mold cavity therebetween, said convex and concave mold surfaces being plated with - :
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a metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, hard chromium and nickel, the edge of said male section adjacent said convex mold surface turning upwardly and inwardly -toward said concave mold surface of said female section so as to have a configuration suitable for forming the edge of the lens, said male section and said female section, when joined t:ogether, coming into edge-to-edge contact with each other only at a por-tion of the mold cavity lying above and adjacen-t the outer edge of said mold cavity.
Brief Explanation of Drawing The present invention will be explained in detail hereunder with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:
Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a mold for manufacturing silicone contact lenses accord-ing to the present invention;
Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of a conventional mold for manufacturing contact lenses;
~ 20 Figure 3(a) is a plane view of a contact : lens manufactured by use of the mold according to the present invention as shown in Figure l; and Figure 3(b) is a plane view of a contact lens manufactuxecl by use of the conventional mold as shown in Flgure 2~ ~
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Detailed Description of Invention _ _ . _ _ As shown in Figure 1, a preferred embodiment of the mold according -to the present invention comprises a pair of mold halves, -tha-t is, a male section 1 and a female section 2 both of which is made of a metallic material preferably of brass Further, the male section 1 is provided on its upper side with a central convex mold surface S1, for forming -the posterior surface of a lens 6 and a peripheral portion 3 in the shape of a tapered protrusion with a sharp edge extending above the entire edge of the surface Sl. As will be clear from the drawing, the internal surface of the peripheral portion 3, which is continuous with the surface S1, constitutes itself a mold surface for forming in part the anterior surface of the lens 6 when both sections 1 and 2 are joined together. On the contrary, the female section 2 is provided on its lower side a central concave mold surface S2 for forming the anterior surface of the lens in cooperation with the peripheral portion 3 of the male section 1 and a curved peripheral portion 4 surround-ing the former. Further, the surfaces Sl and S2 with the inclusion of the internal surface of the portion 3 of the section 1 are plated with chromium, preferably hard chromium, or nickel which is closely related to the sllicone resln used in the present inventi`~pn.
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. ~, .: -With the above arran~ement, when bo-th sections 1 and 2 are joined toge-ther, the edge of the peripheral portion 3 of the former comes into contact with the edge of the surface S2 of the latter as at 7 and/or 7' not .in a flat-to-flat fashion as shown in Figure 2 (which shows a typical conventional mold structure) but in a line or edge-to-edge fashion as shown in Figure 1.
This manner of contact has a particular advantage in that a melting lens material flowing outside the mold through a fine gap between the opposing contac-t surfaces of both sections is cut easily and cleanly without forming any flash extending outside the mold cavity from -the lens edge since the contact area between bo-th sections is kept at minimum, and with a mold of such structure only, the steps of cutting and grinding for the lens can be dispensed with. For example, Figure 3(a) shows an example of a lens manufactured by -the mold according to the present invention while Figure 3(b) shows that of a lens manufactured by the conventional mold as shown 20. in Figure 2. Further, it will be more preferable in this case that, as shown in Figure 1, the edge of the mold `~ cavity which corresponds to the edge 5 of the lens is rounded in the male section and the contact portion 7 and/or 7I comes to lie above, and in the vicinity of, the edge of the mold so that the lens edge cor~esponding ~-- ~ .
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~' thereto can be preEormed and -the con-tact lens as well as the mold can be manufactured more easily and simply than otherwise in view of the fact that the contact lens has extremely A minute structure with the radius of curvature at the lens edge 5 being as small as 0.13 mm and the wearing conditions oi the lens do depend much on the conditions of finish t:hereat.
In Figure 1, a numeral 8 indicates a hard metallic plate half embedded in each of the sections 1 and 2 which plate is provided to prevent the mold from deform-ation or damage when a mechanical force is applied on the mold to press same. A support 9 provided around the side wall of the mold is adopted to cause the center of the anterior surface of the lens 6 to coincide with that of the posterior surface thereof in a simple manner the failure of which would make the lens useless. A hole 10 formed in the support 9 is adopted to pull out air from the mold cavity. By the way, as regards the manner of contact between both male and female sections 1 and 2 of the mold according to the present invention should not be construed so strictly as above described and, therefore, a slight degree of flatness in their contact should also ke considered included in the scope of the present inven-tion provided that no rugged or irregular formation of the
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Now, the method of manuEacture of silicone contact lens according to the presen-t inven-tion will be explained. A silicone resin is first cast into a mold of the above described type comprising a male section and a female section, the mating mold surfaces of which are plated with chromium or nickel as above described and after both sections are tigh-tly joined toge-ther, the mold is immersed into hot wa-ter to be heated at temperatures between about 80C and 100C so tha-t the silicone resin within the mold may be cured to become a finished contact lens.
The following Table 1 shows how the efficiency of a contact lens varies in dependence on the kinds of platings on the surface of a mold by which the contact lens is shaped, especially betwe~n the platings of chromium or nickel and other materials.
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Hard ¦ D D D D D D ¦ B 1~ A I A
Chromiuml B A A A I A A A I A A !A I A , A
Nickel ¦ A B C C ! A A A B B I A, A A
Copper C D D D I C ¦ C D D D I B I A B
Zlnc D I D DD I D ~ B I D D D ' C ~ B B
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Iron~ C, C C _~ ~ ¦ B B I _C _ C B B C C
Remarks. The markings A, B, C, and D as given in the above table indicate "best", "~air",~"bad", and ; worst", respectively.
From the above Table 1, it will be seen that a mold plated with hard chromium and a contact lens made of a silicone resin have excellent characteristics and .
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especially the optical proper-ty of the surface of the silicone contact lens gives a grea-t effect upon its efficiency and that a silicone contac-t lens manufac-tured by a hard chromium or nickel plated mold is excellent since it appears that there :is a strong affinity or a favorable relationship bet~een a silicone resin and ehromium and nickel.
As described above, it will be seen that the mold for manufaeturing silieone eontaet lenses aeeording to the present invention makes it possible to manufaeture eompletely finished silieone eontaet lenses on a large seale and in a simple manner without the neeessity of applying any additional steps thereto such as eutting and grinding and has a great industrial meri-t in that ; 15 the mold ean be manufactured in a simple manner and ean be used semipermanently.
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Now, the method of manuEacture of silicone contact lens according to the presen-t inven-tion will be explained. A silicone resin is first cast into a mold of the above described type comprising a male section and a female section, the mating mold surfaces of which are plated with chromium or nickel as above described and after both sections are tigh-tly joined toge-ther, the mold is immersed into hot wa-ter to be heated at temperatures between about 80C and 100C so tha-t the silicone resin within the mold may be cured to become a finished contact lens.
The following Table 1 shows how the efficiency of a contact lens varies in dependence on the kinds of platings on the surface of a mold by which the contact lens is shaped, especially betwe~n the platings of chromium or nickel and other materials.
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Hard ¦ D D D D D D ¦ B 1~ A I A
Chromiuml B A A A I A A A I A A !A I A , A
Nickel ¦ A B C C ! A A A B B I A, A A
Copper C D D D I C ¦ C D D D I B I A B
Zlnc D I D DD I D ~ B I D D D ' C ~ B B
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Iron~ C, C C _~ ~ ¦ B B I _C _ C B B C C
Remarks. The markings A, B, C, and D as given in the above table indicate "best", "~air",~"bad", and ; worst", respectively.
From the above Table 1, it will be seen that a mold plated with hard chromium and a contact lens made of a silicone resin have excellent characteristics and .
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especially the optical proper-ty of the surface of the silicone contact lens gives a grea-t effect upon its efficiency and that a silicone contac-t lens manufac-tured by a hard chromium or nickel plated mold is excellent since it appears that there :is a strong affinity or a favorable relationship bet~een a silicone resin and ehromium and nickel.
As described above, it will be seen that the mold for manufaeturing silieone eontaet lenses aeeording to the present invention makes it possible to manufaeture eompletely finished silieone eontaet lenses on a large seale and in a simple manner without the neeessity of applying any additional steps thereto such as eutting and grinding and has a great industrial meri-t in that ; 15 the mold ean be manufactured in a simple manner and ean be used semipermanently.
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Claims (7)
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A mold for manufacturing a silicone contact lens characterized in that the mold comprises a male section having a convex mold surface and a female section having a concave mold surface to thereby define a mold cavity therebetween, said convex and concave mold surfaces being plated with a metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, hard chromium and nickel, the edge of said male section adjacent said convex mold surface turning upwardly and inwardly toward said concave mold surface of said female section so as to have a configuration suitable for forming the edge of the lens, said male section and said female section, when joined together, coming into edge-to-edge contact with each other only at a portion of the mold cavity lying above and adjacent the outer edge of said mold cavity.
2. A mold according to claim 1, in which said convex mold surface of the male section and said concave mold surface of the female section are plated with chromium.
3. A mold according to claim 1, in which said convex mold surface of the male section and said concave mold surface of the female section are plated with nickel.
4. A mold according to claim 1, in which said convex mold surface of the male section and said concave mold surface of the female section are plated with hard chromium.
5. A mold for manufacturing a silicone contact lens comprising a male mold section having a convex mold surface and a female mold section having a concave mold surface, said convex and concave mold surfaces being plated with a metal selected from the group con-sisting of chromium and nickel, said male mold section having a radial outer portion circumscribing said convex mold surface, said radial outer portion having a concave cross-sectional configuration such that the peripheral edge of the lens is molded in said radial outer concave portion, said radial outer concave portion terminating in a first circumscribing edge, said female mold section having a radial outer surface which joins said concave mold surface along a second circumscribing edge, said first and second circumscribing edges on said male and female mold sections mating with one another with line contact, whereby formation of irregularities on the lens at the line of contact between the male and female mold sections is precluded.
6. A mold according to claim 5, wherein said male and female mold sections are separable and mateable along a longitudinal axis, said first circumscribing edge of said male mold section being disposed radially inwardly of the peripheral edge of the lens formed in the radial outer concave portion.
7. A mold according to claim 5, wherein said radial outer concave portion of said male mold section has an upper outer radial surface disposed radially outwardly of said first circumscribing edge, said upper outer radial surface being spaced from said radial outer surface on said female mold section.
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