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Random cut apparatus for card shuffling machine

  • US 5,261,667 A
  • Filed: 12/31/1992
  • Issued: 11/16/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for randomly cutting a deck of cards which comprises:

  • a. support means for supporting a deck of cards in stacked registration;

    b. means for sliding each card in the deck in a common direction and to a greater extent than the preceding card in the deck to thereby offset or shingle the cards in said direction to define an offset zone between the least offset card and the most offset card;

    c. a probe having a leading edge;

    d. means for moving the leading edge of the probe into said zone;

    e. means for randomly determining the location inside said zone to which said leading end of said probe is moved; and

    f. means for moving the deck relative to the probe transversely to said, direction, to thereby engage the leading edge of the probe with one of the cards in the deck to separate that card and all cards having greater offset than the one card from the contiguous card and all other cards having lesser offset than the one card thereby cutting the deck into two randomly, sized sub-decks.

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