Patent ID: 8727834

Claim:
A method for polishing lens surfaces in which a polishing area of a polishing head which rotates around a tool spindle axis is guided over the lens surface to be polished of a workpiece which rotates around a workpiece spindle axis, wherein the polishing tool has a radius of curvature t and the workpiece has a radius of curvature W that is smaller than the radius of curvature t, wherein the polishing tool and the workpiece are positioned against each other in a polishing point P such that at any one time a single contact point of the polishing tool contacts a single contact point of the workpiece, comprising the steps of: placing the single polishing point P at least outside of the workpiece centre at a distance “a” from a straight line G which connects the tool spindle axis and the workpiece spindle axis, wherein the straight line G and the polishing point P are arranged on a shared section plane S, and wherein the shared section plane S sections each of the workpiece spindle axis and the tool spindle axis in one single point each.