Patent ID: 6978640

Claim:
A manufacturing apparatus for simultaneously making different glass products having different masses, comprising at least one feed apparatus, that has at least one glass reservoir, at least one plunger, and at least one appurtenant cutting device in the discharge from the reservoir, at least one conveying means to successively transport at least one of the gobs discharged from the feed apparatus into a plurality of shape-imparting units disposed next to each other for variously sized gobs, at least one controller to control the plunger and the cutting device of the feed apparatus, the conveying means, and the shape-imparting units, and said controller controls the activity of the shape-imparting units, the feed apparatus, and the conveying means in coordination with the gob-size-specific processing time of the products in the shape-imparting units or their cycle time and the controller is embodied in such a way that, when it determines that the feed times of at least two shape-imparting units will coincide or when it determines a that there will be a delay in the time the shape-imparting units are fed that will be less than the time necessary for a feed operation, the feeding of one of the shape-imparting units that is to be fed will be delayed and shifted to a subordinate available time window that is long enough to allow the feeding of the not-yet-fed shape-imparting unit(s) to be performed.