CARD DEALER

• US 3,666,270 A
• Filed: 02/08/1971
• Issued: 05/30/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank A. Mazur
• Original Assignee: Frank A. Mazur
• Inventors: Mazur, Frank A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Application Number:
  US05/113,339
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 273/149R,149P
• US Class Current: 273/149.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/14 Card dealers

Abstract

A rotary dealer for playing cards, adapted to be placed more or less centrally of a playing surface and capable of receiving a deck of cards and distributing or dealing the cards into the required number of hands at player'"'"''"'"'s stations, the magazine for the cards being tiltable upwardly for easy loading and the cards being dealt from the top of the deck by initially skewing the top card radially outward from the magazine to be arrested by one of the stops spaced peripherally on a fixed base so that the skewed card is ejected longitudinally as well as radially outwardly and falls at the corresponding player'"'"''"'"'s station.

Claims

1. A dealer for playing cards, comprising:

a base having cams thereon corresponding with tHe required number of player positions;

a platform mounted on said base for rotation about a vertical axis;

a magazine on said platform demensioned to receive a deck of cards;

means to bias the cards in said magazine upwardly in said magazine;

a one-card-at-a-time pusher having an actuator operated successively by said cams when said platform is rotated for partial ejection of the top card generally radially outwardly from said magazine and platform; and

stops fixed to said base, equal in number to said cams, and disposed to arrest partially ejected top cards successively from further rotation with the platform and thus completing the ejection of the successive top cards into an equal number of piles of said stops.

2. A dealer according to claim 1 wherein said pusher is disposed toward the leading end of said magazine as it is rotated along with said platform so that said top card is skewed (22) by the pusher, relative to the magazine;

and said magazine has a lateral escape opening adjacent to the top thereof permitting the skewed top card to slide endwise relative to the magazine.

3. A dealer according to claim 2 and including structure on said platform defining a wall extending from said escape opening substantially radially of the platform, said wall positively pushing the skewed card outwardly as the platform is rotated.

4. A dealer according to claim 3 wherein said structure is also a fingerhold fixed on said platform for use in rotating the same in use.

5. A dealer according to claim 1 wherein said magazine has a bottom plate, and an open side and is pivotally mounted for tilting said open side upwardly to facilitate loading;

said means to bias being a spring-biased pressure pad mounted on said platform to press upwardly on the underside of a deck of cards in said magazine;

said bottom plate having an aperture through which said pressure pad is retracted out of the magazine, when the latter is in tilted position, for further facilitating loading.

6. A dealer according to claim 1 wherein said magazine has an open side and is pivotally mounted for tilting said open side upwardly to facilitate loading;

an arm mounted on said platform and extending across said open side of the magazine when the latter is in depressed position, said arm having an upright card justifying bar.

7. A dealer according to claim 6 wherein said arm has an indexing member disposed slightly above said justifying bar and slightly spaced therefrom inwardly toward said magazine to index the top of the deck of cards at a point one card thickness above said justifying bar.

8. A dealer according to claim 7 wherein said justifying bar extends longitudinally of said arm and has a slightly downwardly concave top surface for better accommodation to cards having a slight curvature.