Device for distribution of playing-cards

• US 3,929,339 A
• Filed: 09/09/1974
• Issued: 12/30/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Luciano Mattioli
• Original Assignee: Luciano Mattioli
• Inventors: Mattioli, Luciano
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Application Number:
  US05/505,191
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 273/149R,148A 206/39.4
• US Class Current: 273/148.00A
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/14 Card dealers

Abstract

A device for distribution of playing-cards, the device comprising a cavity adapted to accommodate two packs of playingcards arranged parallel to each other and in a side-by-side relationship, and pressure means adapted to press said two packs into contact with movable retainer means. The cavity is provided with at least one aperture for communication with the outside, and the movable retainer means are adapted to be operated in a step-by-step manner for exerting, at each step, a grazing action on one card of each pack to cause at least said card to slide, relative to the remaining cards of the respective pack, towards said aperture of the cavity and into a position in which it can be drawn from the outside through said aperture.

Claims

1. A device for distribution of playing-cards, the device comprising:

a cavity;

magazine means for accommodating at least two separate packs of cards arranged in a superimposed and on-edge relationship, and with each card of one pack arranged with one of its edges in contact with a corresponding edge of a card of the other pack, said magazine means being mounted to be slidable along at least part of said cavity;

first aperture means for communication of said cavity with the outside, said first aperture means facing an end wall of said magazine means;

compression means arranged within said magazine means for engaging the bottom card of each pack of cards, and pushing said packs of cards towards said end wall;

second aperture means provided through said end wall to enable the cards to come out from said magazine means;

movable retainer means adapted to extend through said second aperture means into said magazine means and into contact with the top card of each pack of cards to support said packs of cards against the action of said compression means; and

means for operating said movable retainer means in a step-bystep manner, said movable retainer means being adapted, when operated, to exert a grazing action on each of said top cards, and said grazing action tending to cause, at each step, at least said top card of each pack to slide relative to the remaining cards towards said first aperture means through said second aperture means, and into a position in which it can be drawn from the outside through said first aperture means.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cavity comprises a first portion, which is inclined downwards;

said movable retainer means being arranged at the lower end of said first portion of the cavity and said magazine means being slidably mounted within said first portion of the cavity and extractable therefrom.

3. A device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said compression means comprise a weight mounted inside said magazine means for sliding therealong in a direction substantially perpendicular to said end wall.

4. A device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said cavity further comprises a second portion, which extends downwards from the lower end of said first portion;

said first aperture means being provided at the lower end of said second portion, and the latter receiving the cards, which have come out from the magazine means through said second aperture means under the action of said movable retainer means.