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TRIAL LENS SET

The document outlines the components and functionality of a trial lens set used for vision correction. It describes the trial frame's adjustable features and the various types of lenses included in the set, such as sphere, cylinder, and prism lenses. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of the trial lens system in simulating potential eyeglasses for optimal vision assessment.

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TRIAL LENS SET

The document outlines the components and functionality of a trial lens set used for vision correction. It describes the trial frame's adjustable features and the various types of lenses included in the set, such as sphere, cylinder, and prism lenses. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of the trial lens system in simulating potential eyeglasses for optimal vision assessment.

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TRIAL LENS SET

At the end of this lecture, students should be able to

✓ Identify the trial lens set


✓ Describe the content of a trial lens set
✓ Describe the parts of a trial frame
✓ List the various content of a trial box

Description

The trial lens system or set also simulates the effect of potential eyeglasses in a more direct way.
It uses a special (maybe a little scary) eyeglass frame (the trial frame) into which interchangeable,
calibrated lenses can be readily placed (solo or in combination) until the best vision is obtained.
The prescription reflects that final “setup”, and thereby specifies the parameters of eyeglass lenses
that should parallel the optical behavior of the final setup in the trial frame.

Trial frame

The nosepiece assembly, which actually provides for the location of the frame on the subject, can
be adjusted in two ways. It can be moved fore-and-aft, so as to adjust the distance of the trial lenses
from the eye to meet the standard distance or the special distance chosen for the subject. It can be
adjusted up-and-down, so as to place the centers of the lenses vertically in line with the subject’s
pupils.

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The temple pieces have adjusting knobs which adjust their vertical angle with respect to the frame
proper, in turn adjusting the angular “tilt” of the lenses with respect to the line from the eye to the
center of the aperture (the pantoscopic angle). The lengths of the temple pieces can also be adjusted
to suit the location of the subject’s ears. On the “back side” of the frame, for each side, there are
two features with notches into which a trial lens can be placed. A metal spring clip completes the
location of the lens at a third point and holds it in pace. On the “front side” of the frame, for the
assembly on each side, there is a rotatable ring with two posts each having three notches to receive
up to three trial lenses, plus a set of three metal spring clips to complete the location of the lenses
and hold them in place. The front notches are spaced, axially, about 3.5 mm center-to-center. The
rearmost of the three notches is about 7.5 mm center-to-center in front of the notches on the rear
of the frame.

Each ring can be separately rotated with a small knurled knob. There is a friction brake on each
control knob to prevent inadvertent shift in the ring orientation, and a locking screw to fix that
even more securely. Although all the trial lenses in the ring rotate together, this is only of
importance to a cylinder lens, if present (and it is of no consequence for sphere lenses that might
also be inhabiting these rings).

The entire “kit” of a trial frame and a large arsenal of different trial lenses (perhaps as many as
over 250 of them) is often kept in a trial case.

• Sphere lenses, with a wide range of powers, both plus and minus, generally 0.12 D, 0.25 D,
and then in steps of 0.25 D to some Trial Lenses in Vision Correction Page 15 point, then by
increasingly larger steps, perhaps to a maximum of 20.00 D. Usually two of each power are
included, so that the same kind can be placed on both sides if needed.

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• Cylinder lenses, again in a variety of powers, either plus and minus or perhaps both, usually in
steps as described above, perhaps to a maximum of 6.00 D. Again, two of each power are
included.
• Prism lenses, used to correct a defect in the ability of the subject to readily aim both eyes at
the same point. (That aspect of vision correction is not discussed in this article.)
• Special lenses used for various special tests, “opaque” disks used to block one eye while the
other is being measured, and so forth.

Lens A is a sphere lens. Lenses B and C are cylinder lenses.

NOTE: Be sure not to confuse the term “trial lenses” (as used here), meaning a system of refracting
a subject, with “trial lenses” meaning temporary contact lenses that are made from a proposed
prescription and which the patient tries on to see if that if that prescription (and the “fit” of the
lenses) really “works” for them.

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