Patent ID: 7587913

Claim:
A globular glass manufacturing apparatus comprising: a flow nozzle configured to flow molten glass in a form of continuous flow and to let the continuous flow change into droplet-like glass gobs during fall; a collection tank configured to collect droplet-like glass gobs deformed from the molten glass flowing in a form of continuous flow during fall; and a trajectory shifting member comprising: a hole configured to blow gas to one or both of the two neighboring glass gobs or suck one or both of the two neighboring glass gobs, and a servomotor to rotate the hole with a center on the falling trajectory of the glass gobs so as to blow gas to or suck the two neighboring glass gobs in different directions from each other when the glass gobs fall, the trajectory shifting member being configured to shift one or both of each two of the glass gobs neighboring above and below after the molten glass changes into the droplet-like glass gobs, and to blow or suck in different directions or different intensities between the two neighboring glass gobs, so that the falling trajectories of the two neighboring glass gobs are different from each other when the glass gobs fall.