Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

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June, 1930] LENS FOR PROJECTORS 625 curacy of curvature of the lap surface. But if this expert lens maker continues to grind surface after surface on successive lens blanks with the same lap, it will wear irregularly, lose its original contour and soon become incapable of grinding to the exact curvature of the first lens surfaced. The more skilled the lens maker, the more nearly the FIG. 2. Improved lens grinding and polishing machine. lap will conform to its original shape as the grinding progresses but even the expert cannot prevent a gradual changing in curvature, which means a changed focal length or a departure from the true sphere or both, in the finished lens. To restore the lap to its original curvature requires special grinding with a matched lap of opposite