Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Apparatus – With means to movably mount or movably support the work or...
Patent
1997-03-03
1999-01-12
Coe, Philip R.
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Apparatus
With means to movably mount or movably support the work or...
34 58, 134158, 134901, B08B 302
Patent
active
058574751
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for cleaning an optical component having opposed lens surfaces and an outer peripheral area. The apparatus includes a rotatable holder for supporting and retaining the optical component via the outer peripheral area so that at least a useful optical area of at least one of the opposed surfaces is fully exposed to air when the holder and optical component are rotated. A drive device is provided coupled to the holder for rotatably driving the holder to centrifugally force a liquid from the surface. The method includes the steps of, positioning the optical component within a holder and retaining the optical component in a region of the outer peripheral edge so that at least a useful optical area of one of the surfaces is fully exposed to air, applying a liquid to the exposed surface of the optical component, and spinning the optical component at a high rate of speed to clean and dry the optical component.
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Coe Philip R.
Kinberg Robert
Volk Optical Inc.
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