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Updated 07/01/2008
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The US Marine Corps are now using the patented OMS Micro Tint System in their optical departments instead of the old fashioned, dirty and fuming lens tinting units. This will allow them to produce in a cleaner environment and supply better tinted and colored lenses.
Micro Tints now used on ships, the first one being the
The US S.S.Aircraft Carrier "Fitzgerald Kennedy"
As built: Displacement (design): 61,000 tons (83,000 fl) Dimensions: 990' wl (1,051' 3" oa; 1,072' 1" over catapult booms) x 129' 4" (251' 6" fd) x 35' 4" / 301.8 wl (320.4 oa; 326.8 over catapult booms) x 39.4 (76.7 fd) x 10.8 meters Armor: unknown Power plant: 8 1,200-psi boilers, 4 steam turbines, 4 screws; 280,000 shp Speed: 33.5 knots Endurance: nm @ knots Armament: 3 Mk.25 8-cell BPDMS launchers (fitted soon after completion) Aircraft: 80+ Aviation facilities: 4 elevators; 4 steam catapults Crew: 4,965-5,200
The "Kennedy" has now installed, and is using Micro Tints in their on board optical laboratories
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OMS OptoChemicals Press Release
OMS OptoChemicals offers a new premium top coat that can be applied in house to any Anti Reflex coated lens to make it stay cleaner longer with the addition of anti-stat and anti-fog properties
Montreal--- (February 2, 2006) You are going to love the OMS "Crystal Clear Guard " on your AR coated lenses.
Provides the most benefits among all Anti Reflex with hydrophobic slick coated lenses on the market at this time:
"Crystal Clear Guard " fills the pores between the coating crystals to create a sealed surface so that dirt and grease or oil cant penetrate the pores of the coating. Therefore the lenses very are easy to clean and stay clean longer.
The biggest complaint about AR coated lenses is that they collect dirt and dust which make them hard to stay clean. By applying a "Crystal Clear Guard "l AR coated lenses, it will prevent dust to cling to the lens by means of incorporated anti static properties , water and oil will just run off. The slippery surface will also to add to the scratch resistance of the lens.
"Crystal Clear Guard " contains an anti-fog layer that lets fogging up dissipate in 8 seconds instead of 55 to 60 seconds on an untreated AR coated lens.
"Crystal Clear Guard " is the latest version of the first hydrophobic coating for AR coated lenses, introduced at Vision Expo by OMS in 1987 and its following version, the "Super Hydrophobic Coating", introduced to the optical community by OMS in 1991.
Benefits of AR coated lenses with "Crystal Clear Guard " include:
§ Through the anti-static action dust is repelled, through the hydrophobic properties water and grease and oils will not stain the surface.
§ Lenses will be very easy to clean properly
§ Lenses will stay clean much longer and be more scratch resistant
§ Lenses will not fog up easily
§ AR coated lenses will stay crystal clear for days without cleaning.
§ No slippage and loss while cutting lenses, as coating is applied last
"Crystal Clear Guard " is an industry first, unmatched by any other coating manufactured today, it is not proprietary to a certain lens manufacturers brand nor the one of any AR coating laboratory. No other coating offers anti-static properties as well as anti-fog properties on AR coated lenses.
Easy do yourself application:
It can be applied by anybody in an easy in house operation. The chemicals are non dangerous and made with water based polysiloxanes. Therefore the cost is a fraction of the products offered by lens manufacturers and coating labs. Professionals can purchase regular AR coated lenses and apply in house the "Crystal Clear Guard " to any AR product they want.
Similar to the UV coatings in the early 1980s which were easily applied in house, the "Crystal Clear Guard " technology costing a fraction of other coatings, will promote sales of AR coated lenses as it will bring the cost to the patients down to an acceptable level, and any lens type or brand name AR lens product can be coated in house and sold immediately.
OMS OptoChemicals is a registered trade mark of OMS and Crystal Clear Guard Is a registered trade mark of OMS.
HOOKER, The first optical blocking pad to fully prevent all slippery coated optical lenses from turning off axis in bevel edger.
Being turned on ................by hearing from David
Holloway of Lens Coating Laboratories and reading about all the slippage and
lenses turning of axis, ..................these problems popping up when cutting
AR coated lenses that contain an added slick coat ..............I came up with
the perfect solution and have another optical invention on my back.
We developed a
self- adhesive plastic pad (24 mm square) that is applied on the coated (or
uncoated) and slippery lens surface. It adheres to the lens surface by adhesion
only (similar to a stick on prism, but softer in order to adapt to the different
lens curves) and with full resistance to the torque of any side way's or rotary
movement, as if it would be part of the lens itself. Adhesion is provided to
lateral and rotary movements only and can be lifted off the surface without
problems.
This pad serves as a base for whatever system of mounting the lens on the bevel
edger is used. Leap pads will have a solid grip to it, and the HOOKER pad has
enough torque to totally prevent turning and slipping of the lens. As an added
benefit the pad is re-usable an indefinite amount of times. This translates into
a cost factor of not even 2 cents per pad.
Chris Ryser
President OMS
Press Release July 26, 2005
Hundreds of thousands of Optical Stores and Optical Labs endanger employees health by emitting toxic fumes inside their locations world wide.
Most optical stores and prescription laboratories (estimating about 80% in North America)) are doing lens tinting operations by means of conventional lens tinting units which use a chemical heat transfer media to heat the dyes and the dye remover chemicals. Specially the dye removers are made with ether or ethylene glycols that are heated to near the boiling point, therefore emitting very toxic fumes, endangering employees to liver and kidney damage as well as brain cells. Customers to these stores and residents of a building that has central air conditioning are exposed to these fumes. (This presents no problem if a ventilation hood is placed over the tinting unit and the fumes vented outside into fresh air.) These tinting units are on a hot mode from early morning to closing time for fast access and tinting.
The largest offenders are some of the well known optical chain stores in the USA and Canada which advertise 1 hour service and are located in central air conditioned buildings or shopping malls, because they can not vent the fumes outside.
Some of these optical chains, are not only emitting fumes from daily heated tinting units but also from lens hard coating machines that emit fumes of butyl alcohol and other toxic chemicals into the central air conditioning systems.
This is all due to optical chemical manufacturers and suppliers that hand out MSDS sheets that do not mention the danger of toxic fumes when these chemicals are heated without which they would not work. OSHA and other health governing agencies do not seem to be aware of these conditions or they would have made these workplaces safe for the employees, customers and residents of these buildings.
OMS Opto Chemicals has recently developed a non toxic water based tint remover that will not emit any toxic fumes and does work as fast or faster than the conventional glycol products, and furthermore it can be used for every type of lens without damaging any surfaces. This product has been formulated purely from surfactants (soap family) with water as its carrier. Any evaporation can be replaced with plain tap water until it stops working and a new batch has to be used.
For enquiries contact OMS,Opto Chemicals oms_optical@yahoo.com
For further information contact Chris Ryser, President OMS
OMS
Optochemicals, 177108 Canada Inc.
97 Columbus , Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada, H9R 4K3
Tel: +1- 514-426-3055 Fax:+1 - 514-426-1138
e-mail : oms_optical@yahoo.com
By request we have made changes to this press release:
Montreal, November 22, 2004, After 9 month of testing the OMS Micro Tint System the US Navy has decided and opted to use OMS Micro Tints as their new in office tinting system in their different naval bases, for sunglasses and other tinted lenses, supplied by them to Navy pilots and other personnel.
The original contact was made because the Micro Tint System is not only many times faster in the tinting process than the conventional way of tinting but also because the chemicals are water based. Therefore the system works without smell and toxic fumes as happens with all conventional tinting systems.
Change
(.................................. the tinting of optical lenses by way of conventional tinting units and chemicals in a central air conditioned and heated environment. In new buildings including shopping centers the use of conventional tinting unit systems should not be without proper ventilation to the outside,. because without special ventilation hoods above the tinting units the hot solvent fumes ingested are a health hazard to liver and kidneys).............
Furthermore the black Micro Tint color used in Navy pilots sunglasses has a unique, near even straight absorption curve which guarantees a perfect color reproduction which none of the other tinting products on the market are providing.
Presently the only licensed distributor in the USA is: Crystal Optical, 1116 Park Drive, Trent Woods, NC, 28562, Tel /Fax 252-638-4070,
All details on Micro Tints can be seen on the OMS website at http://optochemicals.com
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