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A machine is provided for forming a supply of jellifiable fluid into jelled spherical droplets by pouring that fluid out of a housing through nozzles while intersecting the path of the fluid with knives rotating in a horizontal plane on a rotated axle. Valves for the nozzles and the rotational speed

A machine is provided for forming a supply of jellifiable fluid into jelled spherical droplets by pouring that fluid out of a housing through nozzles while intersecting the path of the fluid with knives rotating in a horizontal plane on a rotated axle. Valves for the nozzles and the rotational speed of the axle are subject to adjustment. A mechanical arrangement is provided for holding all of the valves open to a desired degree against a closing force provided by springs. A jellifying agent is fed through the axle and out onto the knives so that jellification begins to occur immediately as the jellifiable fluid is cut into segments by the rotating knives.

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A machine for obtaining spherical bodies from a jellifiable liquid, comprising: a housing adapted for receiving a mass of jellifiable fluid from a container tank; said housing having a base provided with a plurality of paving nozzles arranged in a circumferential array of aligned nozzles having resp

A machine for obtaining spherical bodies from a jellifiable liquid, comprising: a housing adapted for receiving a mass of jellifiable fluid from a container tank; said housing having a base provided with a plurality of paving nozzles arranged in a circumferential array of aligned nozzles having respective outlets adapted to permit continuous jets of said jellifiable fluid to pour out of said housing therefrom; valve means incorporated between said housing and said nozzles for adjusting volumetric flow rate of jellifiable fluid from said outlets; a knife means including at least one knife secured to a rotatable axle and arranged closely under said outlets of said nozzles so as to be in position to cut said jellifiable fluid, when such is pouring in continuous jets from said nozzle outlets, into individual segments; said axle being arranged to be rotated at a variable speed, so that by a combination of adjusting said valve means and varying the rotational speed of said axle, the volume of jellifiable fluid in each individual segment may be adjusted; and means for supplying a jellifying agent to said jellifiable fluid via said at least one knife as said at least one knife cuts said continuous jets of jellifiable fluid into segments, in order to prevent sticking of the jellifiable fluid to the nozzles and knife means and in order to ensure that formation of the jellifiable fluid into spheres begins immediately as said jets thereof leave said nozzles.