Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1914 — MODERN PLANT FOR GRINDING LENSES [ARTICLE]

MODERN PLANT FOR GRINDING LENSES

Dr. A. G. Catt Has Installed Best Plant on the Market—Now Makes All Glasses. Dr. A. G. Cfttt (has just installed and mow has to opeiatfcm a complete grinding ptanit for the making off tenses for eyeglasses and he is now able to make the lenses to conform to any prescription- The tenses come to him in the rough and resemble the bottom off a pop bottle, although they are considerably tthteker. They cam be ground to suit any eye' teaddng, and Dr. Catt can -take a small part otf a broken tens and without making any examination off the eye can construct a new tens identically likie the broken one. The plaint is not very targe, (but ithe machinery consists off a number off different instruments which dhow their quality at a glance. They -are propelled .by a siniafll electric motor and when set in motion operates almost without noise The plant is in the rear of his opthalmic parlons in the Long Ibtoek. It consists of an automatic surfacing machine, a cantering device, a lens cutter, lens drill, polishing -machine, automatic edging machine and a large,number off parte used in coniforming the glasfe to the reading lhe has made. He has also installed the 'latest combined opthialmoscope and retinosoope for the purpose off examining ithe eyas and -determining their needs. Dr. Oatt is one of our enthusiastic young professionail man whose detenini nation to place Rensseteer abreast off ithe large cities to every respect to Which his -profession is affected and It is certainly very commenidatory that lhe has tostaMed the very latest apparatus, thus enabling him to carry Ihis profession to the highest standard. He is now able to make lenses from the prescriptions off other optoinebrists and should enjoy a good -business from the cities and towns to this ■seetiQn of the state, which- iwoflild doubtless sooner have the work done here than in Chicago or Indianapolis, Where the work ihas hitherto been sent.