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Manual playing card dealing appliance for the production of programmed deals

  • US 4,951,950 A
  • Filed: 09/29/1988
  • Issued: 08/28/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/02/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A playing card distributing device which comprises:

  • (a) a reception box for a pack of stacked cards to be distributed,(b) at least one roller carried by a shaft, protruding into the bottom of the reception box and on which a bottom card of the pack of cards presses,(c) a slot provided in a wall of the reception box, opposite said bottom card,(d) motor means driving in rotation said shaft for a limited period of time in the direction moving said bottom card through said slot, so that the bottom card projects partially through the slot to allow a user to grasp it manually,(e) free wheel means disposed between said shaft and said motor means,(f) first reading means disposed in the bottom of the reception box for reading information carried by the bottom card,(g) a memory for storing prearranged deals,(h) a visual display device indicating, by comparison between the information read on the bottom card and information stored in the memory concerning a deal in progress, to which player said bottom card should be dealt, and(i) second reading means disposed in the bottom of said reception box, in the vicinity of said slot, and connected to said motor means to automatically control, as soon as the bottom card has been fully removed from the slot, a limited rotation of the roller for unstacking a following card.

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