Patent ID: 6926597

Claim:
A method of surfacing a lens, said method comprising: securing an intermediate lens pad to the curved surface of a lens tool; peeling off a protective cover from an adhesive layer on one side of a lens surfacing pad and securing the lens surfacing pad with the adhesive layer to an upper surface of the intermediate lens pad; surfacing a lens with a working surface of the lens surfacing pad, the adhesive layer inhibiting relative movement between the intermediate pad and the lens surfacing pad during surfacing, while facilitating ready manual removal of the surfacing pad for replacement by a different surfacing pad; and effecting such removal and replacement, and surfacing the lens or a different lens using the working surface of the replacement pad, wherein the intermediate lens pad has 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 outwardly so as to be open at the periphery of the pad to enable the pad to follow the curvature of the lens tool, and wherein an outer surface of the intermediate lens pad is substantially smooth and comprises a multiplicity of holes or recesses substantially uniformly distributed over an entirety of the outer surface, said holes or recesses being at least an order of magnitude smaller than the intermediate lens pad.