Globular glass manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing the globular glass

摘要

A globular glass manufacturing apparatus includes: a flow nozzle (3) to flow a molten glass in a form of continuous flow, a collection tank (6) to collect droplet-like glass gobs (B) deformed from the molten glass flowing in a form of continuous flow during fall. Further, the globular glass manufacturing apparatus comprises a gas nozzle (59) to shift one or both of falling trajectories of the glass gobs neighboring above and below by blowing gas to the glass gobs or sucking the glass gobs, wherein the gas nozzle rotates in which the center of its rotation is on the falling trajectory of the glass gobs.