Abstract: A method of loading glass gobs into blank molds includes producing glass gobs falling from laterally spaced orifices along falling gob axes, and receiving the glass gobs into laterally spaced blank molds having blank mold centerlines corresponding to the falling gob axes. A related system is disclosed. Also disclosed is a multiple gob feeder that includes a feeder vessel including outlets with outlet centerlines, and feeder orifices in communication with the feeder vessel and having orifice centerlines coaxial with the outlet centerlines of the outlets of the feeder vessel and establishing gob falling axes and including orifice pipes and orifice tips below the orifice pipes. The orifice pipes include heaters to heat the orifice pipes and the orifice tips include orifice tip heaters to heat the orifice tips.

Abstract: A glass forming individual section machine includes a machine frame having a glass gob loading axis, a traversable blank side, including a blank mold configured to form a glass gob into a parison and having a blank mold vertical axis, and a mold carriage movably carried on the machine frame and coupled to the traversable blank side to linearly translate the traversable blank side toward the glass gob loading axis to align the blank mold vertical axis with the glass gob loading axis and to linearly translate the traversable blank side away from the glass gob loading axis. A related method of loading a blank mold of an individual section machine is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supportingly holding, and moving, a glass preform, such as a gob, wherein the device has a carrier device, at least one rod-shaped support element, which during operation is substantially vertically aligned, wherein, at its upper end, the rod-shaped support element opens into at least one point-shaped upwardly directed support surface; and/or the device has at least one support element which during operation is substantially vertically aligned, has a substantially inverted U-shape, and has a support surface which is upwardly directed and connects the substantially vertically extending vertical portions of the support element.