Automation is key to edging system ...
AO Pro Easy now with Transitions V ... Personalised for progress ... High fashion to your own style ... Easier access ... Spectacles for the incapacitated
AO Pro Easy now with Transitions V ... Personalised for progress ... High fashion to your own style ... Easier access ... Spectacles for the incapacitated
Automation is key to edging system
Trace 3 is designed to simplify handling with automatic frame alignment and clamping with constant pressure at a manageable speed. It provides full 3D tracing while determining groove angle and bevel length for metal frames and automatically calculates the bridge width of the frame, box measurement and lens circumference with x and y coordinates. All measurement values are displayed on a large TFT colour display.
The 'fully-automatic' Cad 5 is an optical recognition and image processing system that can modify lens shapes to aesthetic requirements and requires no human interaction, said Weco.
The Edge 455 drill has an integrated rimless drill and groove function, and displays the edging process on a colour monitor in real time. After a short rough-edging cycle, the lens bevel is processed optionally as flat bevel, free-floating V bevel, manual V bevel or computer-controlled 3D V bevel.
AO Pro Easy now with Transitions V
American Optical said the Transitions V with ESP had a fade back time that was 2.8 times faster than current variable tint lenses. The lenses come in brown and grey tint and have an indoor LTF that is 93 per cent when coated with Teflon EasyCare MAR and offer 84 per cent tint absorption, with the same glare protection as a category 3 sunglass.
The lens uses 'freeform surfacing technology' and its patented design features a 'superposition' of hard and soft progressive components to provide the 'perfect balance of visual utility across all viewing zones' and ease and accuracy for dispensing staff, according to marketing and communications director Peter Robertson.
AO Pro Easy now comes in five material types - CR39, polycarbonate, Transitions Brown and Grey, 1.6 and 1.67 high-index plastic.
Personalised for progress 
Also, the1.74 Rx high-index single-vision lens is now in Rx, while the latest generation Transitions V comes in materials including: Airium (polycarbonate/1.59) in single-vision and two progressive types, 1.67 in single-vision and progressive and 1.6 in ysis progressive.
Other new launches include Switch Gallery, the latest fashion colours from R+H's 'Gallery Colours' available in photochromic and Silver Shade, a graduated silver mirror on Transitions CR39 in brown and grey.
High fashion to your own style
The lightweight titanium Pippet model, which the company said combined strength, durability and comfort, has strong contours to mirror the brow line and on the black model, contrasting sides in mottled acetate, charcoal and cream. Two further models are available in gunmetal and navy.
'We design collections to appeal to the character, while embracing the creative potential and technological benefits of modern materials,' said Actman.
Easier access
The new IS700 can accommodate three instruments and offers a range of modular components, allowing practitioners to build their ideal unit dependent on space and instrument requirements.
Tony Ellison, UK product marketing manager for Topcon, said: 'We believe that the IS700 is the first unit of its kind to offer a removable patient chair to accommodate wheelchair users.' This, he said, would give practices a head start in complying with the regulations on access for disabled customers.
There are three wood finishes and two colours as well as improved integration with Topcon instruments and other refraction equipment. Both right and left units come with or without table elevation. The unit will be available at a special price at Optrafair.
Spectacles for the incapacitated
Following practitioner demand, Norville has launched recumbent and stoop spectacles to aid incapacitated patients.The spectacles are designed to be worn independently or as an overspec, the recumbant with prism down and stoop with prism up. 'The rise in the ageing population is meaning many more elderly and incapacitated patients are in need of this type of vision aid,' said Norville.