Patent ID: 9296160
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: B29D,B65B

Claim Text:
1. A method of manufacturing an ophthalmic lens, comprising: providing an ophthalmic lens in a volume of liquid in a well of a lens carrier so that the ophthalmic lens is understood to be a wet lens; removing the wet lens from the well using a wet lens pick up head comprising an outer periphery sized and convexly shaped to form a fit with a posterior concave surface of the wet lens; moving the wet lens pick up head with the posterior surface of the wet lens fixed to the outer periphery of the wet lens pick up head toward a blister package having a cavity to receive the wet lens; and releasing the wet lens from the wet lens pick up head into the cavity of the blister package, wherein, during the moving, the wet lens is fixed to a first set of holes in the outer periphery of the wet lens pick up head and is retained by vacuum, and excess liquid is removed from the wet lens by a second set of holes recessed from the periphery of the wet lens pick up head that do not come in contact with the wet lens surface.