Optics: eye examining – vision testing and correcting – Spectacles and eyeglasses – Ophthalmic lenses or blanks
Patent
1975-10-28
1976-12-14
McCarthy, Helen M.
Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting
Spectacles and eyeglasses
Ophthalmic lenses or blanks
65 30E, 351168, 351171, 106 52, 106 47Q, 428410, G02B 528
Patent
active
039972496
ABSTRACT:
There is disclosed an ion exchange-strengthened ophthalmic segment glass suitable for the fabrication of fused bifocal and trifocal ophthalmic lenses. More particularly, there is disclosed a lanthanum-silicate based ophthalmic segment glass having indices of refraction of about 1.57 to about 1.65 which is suitable for chemical ion exchange strengthening so as to develop a compressively-stressed ion-exchanged surface layer having a depth of at least 60 micrometers.
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patent: 3899315 (1975-08-01), Siegmund
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Deeg Emil W.
Graf Robert E.
Krohn David A.
American Optical Corporation
Berkenstock, Jr. H. R.
McCarthy Helen M.
Nealon William C.
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