Contact lens casting method
CA 1112821 A · Owner: Novartis Pharma Canada Inc./Novartis Pharma Canada Inc. · Inventors: Travnicek, Edward A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Producing from a single contact lens casting mold lenses, of a number of different sizes by including in the casting precursor for each lens, a controlled amount of an extractable diluent of low volatility which is extracted after casting to cause the resulting lens to shrink a calculable amount. Variations in amounts are used to produce corresponding variations in sizes of cast and extracted lenses.
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- Granted November 24, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 24, 1998.
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