Patent ID: 6942550

Claim:
An intermediate lens pad comprising: a plurality of slots spaced apart around the center of the pad, extending radially from positions spaced from the center of the pad and extending upwardly so as to be open at the periphery of the pad to enable the pad to follow the curvature of a lens tool, said pad having a first side and a second side, said first side capable of being secured to a curved surface of a lens tool when the pad is in use, and said second side having a substantially smooth surface comprising a multiplicity of holes or recesses substantially uniformly distributed over an entirety of said second side surface, said holes or recesses extending below said substantially smooth surface and being at least an order of magnitude smaller than the intermediate lens pad, whereby a lens surfacing pad having a peel-off adhesive on one side and a working surface on its other side, can be secured by said adhesive side to said intermediate lens pad so as to inhibit relative movement between said intermediate lens pad and said lens surfacing pad during surfacing, while allowing ready manual removal of the surfacing pad for replacement by a different surfacing pad.