摘要:
Squeezed, the flexible cup of the device forms two convex lips which grip a soft contact lens in place on a human eye, deforms the lens, breaking its fluid suction-bond to the eye, allowing easy and gentle removal of the lens from the eye, without fingers touching the eye. The body of the device has a dished end with an elevated rim, an annular lumen and a depressed central segment, which end safely holds soft contact lenses by the variable suction of a flexible bulb, controllable by sliding the other end of the body into the lumen of the bulb. The lens is released by squeezing the bulb.
摘要:
A device for the insertion and removal of soft contact lenses comprises a bifurcated member having a pair of flexible members extending from the main body and contact lens gripping surfaces attached to the ends of each of the flexible members. The angular tips are constructed and shaped at the precise angle necessary, so that when placed against a contact lens, the lens may be flexed and removed from the eye, or, inversely, easily placed on the eye.
摘要:
A device having an elongated resilient body in the form of an open top trough with upwardly divergent side walls and open at the ends. One end of the body has integral lens gripping pads arranged one on each side wall. The pads are spaced from each other laterally of the body and are movable toward each other by flexure of the side walls. The pads are shaped so that, when they are engaged with a soft contact lens which is installed on the cornea of a human eye and then moved toward each other, they first flex the lens so that its posterior face disconforms to the cornea and air can enter therebeneath and release the adhesion of the lens to the cornea, and then support the lens by the device so that it can be removed from the eye by manipulation of the device. The opposite end of the body is arranged to support the lens in undistorted condition for insertion into the eye by manipulation of the device.
摘要:
A posterior lens implant tool for use in combination with an intraocular lens for implantation in the posterior chamber of the human eye. The intraocular lens includes a plano-convex lens, which is formed from an optical material that is suitable for an implantable lens. The plano-convex lens is adapted to be inserted into the posterior chamber of the human eye within the capsular membrane thereof. The intraocular lens also includes a pair of supporting loops which are formed from a material that is suitable for implantation into the eye, mechanically coupled to the peripheral edge of plano-convex lens and disposed at an angle in the range of 0.degree. to 25.degree. to the plane surface of the plano-convex lens so that their end portions are below the plane surface of the plano-convex lens. The posterior lens implant tool includes a pair of prongs, which are mechanically coupled together to form a pair forceps with each of the prongs having a tip which has a groove which is adapted to be secured to the inside surface of one of the supporting loops. The tip of each of the prongs is adaptedto secure the peripheral edge of the plano-convex lens.
摘要:
Apparatus for applying a soft contact lens to the surface of an eye is disclosed to include a thimble section, a cup section and a stem section therebetween. The soft contact lens is retained on the cup section by capillary attraction during placement. The diameter of the cup section is less than the diameter of the lens being placed in order to cause the capillary attraction between the cup section and lens section to be less than the capillary attraction between the lens and the surface of the eye thereby permitting sure and easy placement.
摘要:
A non-suction cup-type instrument for the insertion and removal of soft contact lenses is made of surgical rubber. It includes a central portion which looks somewhat like a suction cup having two sides cut away, and has small wedge-shaped contact lens-engaging elements or members protruding inwardly from each side of this suction cup-like member. It is again particularly noted that no suction cup action is involved in the present instrument. The instrument is also provided with two resilient arms which are aligned with the wedge-shaped contact lens engaging elements and which may be employed to support these elements and hold the lens more firmly once they are engaged. The space between the two wedge-shaped contact lens-engaging members, which incidentally have an overall configuration corresponding to opposed segments of a circle, is such that they are spaced apart by slightly less than the diameter of a contact lens.