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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8141875 | Card handling devices and networks including such devices Devices for handling playing cards comprise a card infeed tray, a card output tray, and a movable card storage device with multiple compartments. At least one compartment of the multiple compartments comprises a preselected and designated bonus card compartment conf... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8118305 | Mechanized playing card dealing shoe with automatic jam recovery A distinct dealing shoe having no shuffling functionality receives a shuffled, randomized or ordered group of cards. The cards may be mechanically moved one at a time from a receiving area for the deck to a buffer area where more than one card is temporarily stored.... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8109514 | Card shuffling device and method A device for shuffling a deck of playing cards is described. The cards are placed in a compartment having a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, and dimensioned so that the cards are constrained in rotation in two of the three axes. The device is oriented so that ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8104767 | Automatic poker shuffling machine An automatic poker shuffling machine includes a card dispensing device having a vertically movable platform and a first conveyer mounted to the platform; a card cartridge installed on the platform for placing poker cards thereon, the first conveyer being stopped aga... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8074987 | Systems and methods for processing playing cards collected from a gaming table A device for reading, transporting, and storing playing cards that have been collected after a card game at a gaming table. The system includes an input compartment to receive the collected playing cards, a reader, a conveyor system to transport the playing cards pa... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8070160 | Playing cards shuffling and dealing machine The invention presents a methodology and device for distribution of playing cards. Automatic operation without manual intervention is its main theme. This eliminates the likely manipulations, monotony, errors associated with manual handling of playing cards. The dev... | 12/06/2011 |
| RE42944 | Card shuffling device A card shuffler is disclosed having a card output portion that is easily connectable to either a first output card receiver or a second output card receiver. The first output card receiver enables the dealer to remove cards one at a time from the shuffler. The secon... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8038153 | Systems, methods and articles to facilitate playing card games Playing cards from the input playing card receiver are allocated or directed between at least the first intermediary and the second intermediary playing card receivers based on an order in which the playing cards will be arranged at the playing card output receiver.... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8025294 | Card shuffler with card rank and value reading capability A card shuffling device includes a top surface, a card receiving area for receiving an initial set of playing cards, a randomizing or arranging system for the initial set of playing cards, a collection surface in a card collection area for receiving randomized playi... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8011661 | Shuffler with shuffling completion indicator A playing card shuffling device has a visual display in information communication with the playing card shuffling device. At least one processor is programmed to provide displayable information to the visual display indicative of an amount of time remaining or time ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7988152 | Playing card shuffler An apparatus is for shuffling a plurality of playing cards used in gaming. The apparatus includes a card support adapted to support the unshuffled cards on-edge. An exciter is also included, and is adapted to impart vibrational action to the supported cards. Cards d... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7976023 | Image capturing card shuffler The present invention features a playing card shuffling device, which through the use of a small image capturing means, captures an image of the face value of each card and stores the image in memory. This image is sorted in the format of a bitmap image. The operato... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971881 | Apparatus and method for automatically shuffling cards An apparatus and method of automatically shuffling a deck of playing cards is described. The apparatus includes three compartments disposed laterally with respect to each other and at least one compartment movable vertically with respect to another other compartment... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967294 | Card shuffler with gravity feed system for playing cards A card feed system for feeding cards into a card handling system is disclosed. The system includes a card input department with a playing card support surface, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls. The playing card support surface slopes towards the front wa... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7950663 | Intelligent baccarat shoe A method of controlling the game of baccarat is disclosed, the method including the steps of providing a card delivery shoe equipped with a sensor capable of reading at least a rank of each card; a first processor capable of controlling operation of the card deliver... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7946586 | Swivel mounted card handling device Playing card handling devices, such as shufflers, dealing shoes, discard racks and verification systems are rotatably secured to a gaming table to allow for functional and ergonomic adjustment of the card handling device, without removal from the gaming table. One e... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7900923 | Apparatus and method for automatically shuffling cards An apparatus and method of automatically shuffling a deck of playing cards is described. The apparatus includes three compartments disposed laterally with respect to each other and at least one compartment movable vertically with respect to another other compartment... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900924 | Shuffling machine with a detaching assembly for card input and output A shuffling machine has a shuffler, a card input, a card output, an input detaching assembly and an output detaching assembly. The input detaching assembly is mounted between the shuffler and the card input to connect the card input detachably to the shuffler. The o... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7874559 | Playing card dispensing and opening system A playing card dispensing and opening system includes a playing card dispensing unit that dispenses playing cards automatically, and a playing card opening unit that uses a motor to rotate a crank arm and to further move a transparent playing card holder plate from ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7854430 | Card shuffling device and method A device for shuffling a deck of playing cards is described. The cards are placed in a compartment having a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, and dimensioned so that the cards are constrained in rotation in two of the three axes. The device is oriented so that ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7815189 | Playing card game accessories kit This patent discloses a playing card game accessories kit. The kit may include a playing card handler, a gunfighter figurine, a card deck, an advanced card deck, a card cover, chips, and a game card rules book that may provide instructions on how to play continuous ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7784790 | Device and method for continuously shuffling and monitoring cards The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into a second group of cards, wherein the second group of cards is randomly arranged or shuffled. The apparatus comprises a card receiver for receiving the fi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7770893 | Method, apparatus and article for evaluating card games, such as blackjack A system reads an identifier from a hand of cards to identify the cards. For example, the system can read an identifier from a pair of cards forming the initial hand in blackjack, where the one card is face up and the other card is face down. The system determines t... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7766333 | Method and apparatus for shuffling and ordering playing cards A card shuffling system and method operates with four card hoppers arranged into first and second pairs. In the operation of the system, a first pair of card hoppers holds approximately two halves of a deck, which are then selectively interlaced together and supplie... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7766331 | Method and device for physically randomizing a plurality of playing instruments in absence of a random number generator Aspects of the invention relate to fully automated systems and methods for shuffling and scrambling playing instruments, such as cards, before being dealt to one or more players. In one embodiment, a rotating device is utilized to scramble playing instruments. In ye... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7766334 | System and computer-executable instructions for physically randomizing a plurality of playing instruments in absence of a random number generator Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods relating to online gaming utilizing virtual playing instruments generated from physical playing instruments. According to one aspect of the invention, physical playing instruments are utilized in a gaming ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7766332 | Card handling devices and methods of using the same A card handling device includes a sensing system for identifying cards handled thereby. A control system may be configured to selectively control an infeed system, a storage system, and/or an output system of the device in response to a signal received from the sens... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7762554 | Card output device for shuffling machine A card output device for a shuffling machine is mounted adjacent to a shuffling wheel of a shuffling device and has a housing and a stacking assembly, a pushing assembly and three sensors being mounted in the housing. When the sensors sense that there are cards on t... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7753374 | Automatic shuffling machine An automatic shuffling machine has a shuffling wheel and a card input mounted adjacent to the shuffling wheel for conveying and inserting cards into slots formed in the shuffling wheel. An insertion panel is mounted securely between the card input and the shuffling ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7753373 | Multiple mode card shuffler and card reading device A multiple mode card shuffling and/or card verification device includes a top surface, a card receiving area for receiving an initial set of playing cards, a randomizing or arranging system for the initial set of playing cards that can be disabled, a collection surf... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7740244 | Card cartridge for a shuffling machine A card cartridge for shuffling machines has a body and a cover. The body has a longitudinal slot defined in the body in a slantwise manner for receiving cards discharged from the shuffling machine, and at least two stops protrude oppositely from two side edges of th... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7717427 | Playing card dealing shoe with automated internal card feeding and card reading A distinct dealing shoe having no shuffling functionality receives shuffled, randomized or ordered group of cards. The cards may be mechanically moved one at a time from a receiving area for the deck to a buffer area where more than one card is temporarily stored. T... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7677565 | Card shuffler with card rank and value reading capability A card shuffling device includes a top surface, a card receiving area for receiving an initial set of playing cards, a randomizing or arranging system for the initial set of playing cards, a collection surface in a card collection area for receiving randomized playi... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677566 | Pre-shuffler for a playing card shuffling machine The invention comprises a pre-shuffler that receives a quantity of cards to be shuffled, such as nine decks of cards. One embodiment of the pre-shuffler includes a horizontal moveable box having, for example, nine compartments with vertical walls for separating the ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7669853 | Card shuffling machine A card shuffling machine (10) includes a turntable (14) in which a plurality of cards (26) rest in respective trays (24). When the turntable (14) is spun, a tongue-like detent (30) resiliently strikes a circular arrangement ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669852 | Automatic card shuffler An automatic card shuffler includes a card input unit, card ejection unit, card separation and delivery unit and card collection unit. A card ejection unit ejects cards in a singular fashion from a stack of cards placed into the input unit. The cards are ejected to ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7661676 | Card shuffler with reading capability integrated into multiplayer automated gaming table A gaming system simulates events in a casino table card wagering game where there has traditionally been a dealer, whether or not the dealer is an active player in the game. Two distinct video areas are preferably provided, one providing video images of a virtual de... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7644923 | Automatic card shuffler with dynamic de-doubler An automatic card shuffler includes a card input unit, card ejection unit, card separation and delivery unit and card collection unit. A card ejection unit ejects cards in a singular fashion from a stack of cards placed into the input unit. The ejected cards are pas... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7594660 | Automatic card shuffler An automatic card shuffler includes a card input unit, card ejection unit, card separation and delivery unit and card collection unit. A card ejection unit ejects cards in a singular fashion from a stack of cards placed into the input unit. The cards are ejected to ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7584962 | Card shuffler with jam recovery and display A card shuffler and method in which recovery from a card jam can be performed. Sensors detect a jam and a program directs jam recovery. ... | 09/08/2009 |
