Card dealing apparatus including reciprocating pusher and cooperating rollers

• US 3,131,935 A
• Filed: 06/22/1960
• Issued: 05/05/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Roar Gronneberg
• Original Assignee: Roar Gronneberg
• Inventors: ROAR GRONNEBERG
• Application Number:
  US04/038,020
• Time in Patent Office: 1,413 Days
• US Class Current: 273/149.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/16 Apparatus for indicating the dealer

Claims

1. IN A CARD DEALING APPARATUS INCLUDING A ROTATABLE MAGAZINE FOR RECEIVING A PACK OF CARDS TO BE DEALT, MEANS FOR ROTATING THE MAGAZINE, MEANS FOR PUSHING THE TOPMOST CARD OF THE PACK PARTLY OFF THE TOP OF THE PACK A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF TIMES FOR EACH REVOLUTION OF THE MAGAZINE, AND COOPERATING ROLLERS CARRIED BY THE MAGAZINE FOR RECEIVING EACH PUSHED CARD, DRAWING IT OUT OF THE MAGAZINE AND DEALING IT, THE IMPROVEMENT IN WHICH THE MEANS FOR PUSHING THE TOP CARD COMPRISES A RECIPROCABLE PUSHER PLATE OF SOMEWHAT LESS THICKNESS THAN A CARD OF THE PACK AND MOUNTED ON THE MAGAZINE FOR RECIPROCATION AT THE LEVEL OF THE TOPMOST CARD OF THE PACK, AND MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING SAID PLATE A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF TIMES FOR EACH REVOLUTION OF THE MAGAZINE DURING ITS ROTATION, SAID RECIPROCATING MEANS DURING EACH RECIPROCATION MOVING AN EDGE OF SAID PLATE AGAINST AN EDGE OF THE TOPMOST CARD TO PUSH THE TOPMOST CARD PARTLY OFF THE TOP OF THE NECK.