Automatic playing card dispensing system

• US 20110024981A1
• Filed: 07/28/2009
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tzu-Hsiang Tseng
• Original Assignee: Tzu-Hsiang Tseng
• Inventors: Tseng, Tzu-Hsiang
• Granted Patent: US 7,926,809 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/149.R
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/14 Card dealers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2425 Scanners, e.g. for scanning regular characters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2451 using illumination, e.g. with lamps
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2457 Display screens, e.g. monitors, video displays

Abstract

An automatic playing card dispensing system includes a scanner for recognizing the card suits and card values of the dispensed playing cards, a display, a set of indicator lights, and a driver unit for controlling dispensing of the playing cards and driving the display to display the card suits and card values of the dispensed playing cards been scanned by the scanner and the indicator lights to give a respective indication that indicates “Banker Win”, “Player Win” or “Tie Win”.

Claims

1. An automatic playing card dispensing system comprising:

a housing having a chute for holding a deck of playing cards, said chute having a sloping output port at a front side thereof,

a scanner arranged in front of the sloping output port of said chute for recognizing the card suits and card values of the playing cards that are delivered out of said chute;

a wheel axle transversely pivotally mounted in said sloping output port of said chute;

a rubber dispensing wheel fixedly mounted on said wheel axle and rotatable with said wheel axle to dispense playing cards out of said sloping output port of said chute;

a display means; and

a driver unit provided at one lateral side of said housing and electrically connected with said display means and controllable to rotate said wheel axle and adapted for receiving signal from said scanner means and calculating the data received from said scanner means and outputting a control signal to said display means to display the card suits and card values.

2. The automatic playing card dispensing system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of infrared sensors mounted in said housing around said scanner and adapted to detect movement of playing cards.