Patent ID: 7127917

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a molded glass object which comprises: causing a glass melt to flow from the front end portion of a nozzle, receiving a prescribed weight of the glass melt flowing out by a glass melt receiving portion provided on a forming mold moved beneath the nozzle, wherein multiple forming molds are sequentially moved beneath the nozzle, including vertically separating said forming mold away from said nozzle during said glass melt flowing out of said nozzle and upon said glass melt being received by said glass melt receiving portion, moving the glass melt from the glass melt receiving portion to a hollow provided on said forming mold, and forming in the hollow, a molded glass object while blowing gas upward through a gas outlet provided in the bottom of the hollow, such that the front end of said nozzle is constantly positioned outside the space vertically above said gas outlet.