Patent ID: 6902467

Claim:
An apparatus for processing a lens, comprising: a lens holding unit displaceable in a vertical direction and having a lens shaft arranged to hold a lens to be processed; a main shaft unit equipped with a rotating tool and disposed to processes a peripheral portion of a spectacle lens held in the lens holding unit, in accordance with shape data of a lens portion of a spectacle frame, when the lens holding unit is displaced to contact a lens held in the lens holding unit with the rotating tool; a load adjusting device equipped to adjust a load pressing the lens to the rotating tool; a lens shaft drive connected to drive the lens shaft with a changeable rotational speed and direction of rotation; a cooling device arranged to inject a cooling liquid toward the lens held in the lens shaft; a means for setting processing conditions for the load adjusting device, the drive and the cooling device; and a control means for controlling the load adjusting device, the drive and the cooling device based on output from the means for setting processing conditions, wherein the control means for controlling is connected to receive output from the means for setting processing conditions.