Method for producing tinted contact lenses

Details Method for producing tinted contact lenses Method for producing tinted contact lenses

2007-01-23

2007-01-23

Sugarman, Scott J. (Department: 2873)

Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting

Spectacles and eyeglasses

Ophthalmic lenses or blanks

C351S162000

Reexamination Certificate

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11007442

ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a method of producing a full-body tinted contact lens. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: preconditioning particles of a pigments; dispersing the preconditioned pigment particles in a polymerizable fluid composition to obtain a pigment-containing polymerizable dispersion; introducing an amount of the pigment-containing polymerizable dispersion in a mold for making a contact lens; polymerizing the polymerizable dispersion in the mold to form a full-body tinted contact lens with the particles of the pigment entrapped and distributed therein. In addition, the invention provides a method for preparing preconditioned pigment particles and full-body tinted contact lenses produced according the method of the invention.

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