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Method and apparatus for automatically cutting and shuffling playing cards

  • US 20020070499A1
  • Filed: 11/16/2001
  • Published: 06/13/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/09/1994
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for shuffling playing cards which comprises:

  • a. a first vertically extending magazine for holding a vertically registered stack of unshuffled playing cards, b. second and third vertically extending magazines for holding a vertically registered stack of cards, each horizontally spaced from and adjoining the first magazine, c. first card-engaging means disposed at the top of the first magazine for individually moving cards from the top of the stack of cards in the first magazine horizontally to the second and third magazine to thereby cut the stack of unshuffled playing cards into two stacks, and d. second and third card-engaging means disposed at the top of the second and third magazines, respectively, for simultaneously and randomly moving individual cards from the top of the stack of cards in the second and third magazines, respectively, to the first magazine, to thereby interleave the cards to form a vertically registered stack of shuffled cards in the first magazine.

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