Patent ID: 7934919

Claim:
A method of molding an optical lens, especially an ophthalmic lens, from a polymerizable material, which method uses a first molding shell ( 12 ) and a second molding shell ( 29 ) and holds said first and second molding shells ( 12 , 29 ) in a predetermined molding position in which they are laid flat and facing each other at a distance; the method comprising the following steps: immobilizing the first shell ( 12 ) in a first shell support ( 6 ); immobilizing the second shell ( 29 ) in a second shell support ( 27 ); maintaining the first shell support ( 6 ) in an orientation in which an active molding surface of the first shell ( 12 ) faces upward with the first shell support ( 6 ) and the first shell ( 12 ) selected so that the active molding surface forms a bottom of a cup having edges delimited by a substantially cylindrical edge portion; depositing in said cup a predetermined quantity of said polymerizable material; after said step of depositing a predetermined quantity of said polymerizable material in said cup, bringing said first shell support ( 6 ) and said second shell support ( 27 ) to a predetermined relative position in which the first shell ( 12 ) and the second shell ( 29 ) are in said predetermined molding position, in which an active molding surface of said second shell ( 29 ) is in contact with the polymerizable material, facing the active molding surface of the first shell ( 12 ), with the second shell ( 29 ) placed at least partially in the cup, at a distance from its edges.