Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for handling cards
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Application No.: US15664130Application Date: 2017-07-31
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Publication No.: US10279245B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: David E. Sampson , Steven L. Forte
- Applicant: Bally Gaming, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NV Las Vegas
- Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NV Las Vegas
- Agency: TraskBritt
- Main IPC: A63F1/12
- IPC: A63F1/12 ; A63F1/14 ; A63F9/24

Abstract:
A card shuffler that moves cards one at a time from the bottom of a group that may be a deck in a deck-crib, to randomly designated single-card receptacles in a receiving or dealing rack, and methods for shuffling and for dealing cards. Either the deck-crib or the receiving rack is moved by a motor to align a single-card receptacle, randomly selected from among remaining empty single-card receptacles, with an outfeed slot of the deck-crib to receive each card to be moved from the deck-crib. A single card is moved from the deck-crib by a card mover mechanism that may include an auxiliary card pusher to ensure that the card is placed fully into the selected single-card receptacle. A controller can cause the dealing rack to move so as to allow a selected number of cards to be removed by the dealer for dealing as a player hand or a dealer hand. A card presentation pusher may make a group of the cards in the dealing rack available to be grasped by the dealer for removal. A card reader may be included, and positions in the receiving or dealing rack of cards identified by the card reader can be stored in memory in the controller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170326437A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING CARDS Public/Granted day:2017-11-16
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