SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150151192A1
• Filed: 12/03/2014
• Published: 06/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Angel Group Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Angel Playing Cards Co Ltd (Angel Group Company Limited)
• Inventors: SHIGETA, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 9,457,262 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/00 Card games aspects of games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions showing representations related to the game A63F13/00; card games played on a gaming machine G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/02 Cards; Special shapes of cards card-printing methods B41K, B41M
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/062 Boxes or cases for cards
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/10 Card holders
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/12 Card shufflers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/18 Score computers; Miscellaneous indicators time-testing devices G07C
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 11/00 Game accessories of general use , e.g. score counters, boxes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2001/022 Manufacturing of cards
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/58 Antifraud or preventing misuse

Abstract

The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards (1) obtained by shuffling a predetermined number of decks of playing cards (12) using a shuffling machine is packaged as an individual pack. The shuffled playing cards (1) is individually packaged and sealed with an adhesive label (13). A bar code (13a) which represents a unique shuffled card ID has been printed on the adhesive label (13). The shuffled card ID is registered in a database by being associated with information which allows identification of a shuffling machine used to shuffle the playing card set.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing shuffled playing cards, the method having the steps of:

generating individual playing cards;

randomly shuffling the playing cards using at least a first card feeding step and a second card feeding step, wherein the first card feeding step comprises feeding the cards to multiple pockets, and the second card feeding step comprises taking the cards from the multiple pockets and randomly shuffling the cards.

2. The method of manufacturing of claim 1, wherein the first card feeding step is functionally independent of the second card feeding step.

3. The method of manufacturing of claim 1, wherein the first card feeding step and the second card feeding step are performed simultaneously.

4. The method of manufacturing of claim 1, further comprising inspecting the card to determine whether or not the card has been cut or printed properly.

5. The method of manufacturing of claim 4, further comprising rejecting a card determined to be not properly cut or not properly printed.

6. The method of manufacturing of claim 1, further comprising packaging a set of the shuffled playing cards into one package.

7. The method of manufacturing of claim 1, wherein the playing cards are shuffled at random using a random generator.

8. The method of manufacturing of claim 1, wherein a back design of the card is inspected in the inspection step.

9. The method of manufacturing of claim 1, further having a checking step for checking whether there is any excess or deficiency in the set of shuffled playing cards.

10. The method of manufacturing of claim 1, further having a card discarding step wherein a defective card is discarded.

11. The method of manufacturing of claim 6, further having a shuffled card ID generating step wherein a shuffled card ID is attached to the package.