Playing card shuffler and dispenser
US5382024A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 15, 1993 |
| Grant date | Jan 17, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 15, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA63F1/12
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A playing card shuffler and dispenser has a housing and a storage container for a stack of shuffled playing cards arranged in the housing, the storage container defining an output opening for consecutively discharging a single one of the playing cards from the stack. A playing card shuffling container for a stack of playing cards to be shuffled is arranged in the housing adjacent the storage container and is movable parallel and relative thereto between two end positions, the housing defining an input opening for feeding the playing cards to be shuffled into the shuffling container in one of the end positions thereof. The shuffling container is moved by a randomly operable drive between the end positions. A playing card ejector pushes a respective one of the playing cards to be shuffled from the shuffling container into the storage container, and a randomly operable drive operates the ejector.
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