Patent ID: 6902468

Claim:
An apparatus or machining edges of a lens blank to form a spectacle lens, comprising: at least one CNC-controlled processing machine for machining the lens blank; at least one unit for measuring characteristics of the lens blank, the unit being operable to attach at least one of a suction cup and a block to the lens blank in a positionally and angularly correct location, the positionally and angularly correct location being determined in accordance with the characteristics of the lens blank measured by the unit; and at least one handling arrangement operable to remove the lens blank from a conveyor, to insert the lens blank into the unit for measuring the characteristics of the lens blank, to remove the lens blank from the unit for measuring the characteristics of the lens blank after the at least one of the suction cup and the block is attached to the lens blank, and to insert the lens blank with the at least one of the suction cup and the block attached thereto into the CNC-controlled processing machine for machining the lens blank into the spectacle lens.