Playing card shuffling machine
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1. A method for automating shuffling of playing cards, comprising the steps of:
- a) forming an unshuffled stack of playing cards which are to be shuffled, said playing cards being in stacked array formation with contact between adjacent cards of the unshuffled array;
b) holding the unshuffled stack in an unshuffled stack holder on a floor having a fixed height; and
d) using an ejector mounted on an ejector carriage which is movable relative to a frame to eject at least one playing card at an incremental position of the unshuffled stack directly to a shuffled card receiver to provide a randomly distributed array of shuffled cards.
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Abstract
A playing card shuffler for shuffling a stack of playing cards with random distribution. The playing card shuffler includes an infeed playing card stack holder supporting an unshuffled playing card stack and discharges playing cards from incremental positions of the unshuffled playing card stack directly to the shuffled card receiver.
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23 Claims
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1. A method for automating shuffling of playing cards, comprising the steps of:
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a) forming an unshuffled stack of playing cards which are to be shuffled, said playing cards being in stacked array formation with contact between adjacent cards of the unshuffled array;
b) holding the unshuffled stack in an unshuffled stack holder on a floor having a fixed height; and
d) using an ejector mounted on an ejector carriage which is movable relative to a frame to eject at least one playing card at an incremental position of the unshuffled stack directly to a shuffled card receiver to provide a randomly distributed array of shuffled cards. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for automated shuffling of playing cards, comprising the steps of:
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a) forming an unshuffled stack of playing cards which are to be shuffled, said playing cards being stacked in array formation with contact between adjacent cards;
b) holding the unshuffled stack in an unshuffled stack holder on a floor having a fixed height; and
c) using an ejector mounted on an ejector carriage which, is movable relative to a frame, to discharge at least one playing card at a time at a card discharge position of the unshuffled stack directly to a shuffled card receiver for random distribution of the at least one playing card among other playing cards to be received in the shuffled card receiver. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An automated playing card shuffler, comprising:
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a) a shuffled stack receiver;
b) a playing card discharger comprising an ejector mounted on an ejector carriage which is movable relative to a frame for discharging playing cards laterally from incremental positions of the unshuffled card stack directly to the shuffled card receiver. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for creating a random deck of shuffled cards, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) supporting an array of unshuffled cards on an unshuffled card surface; and
b) removing cards from the array of unshuffled cards using an ejector mounted on an ejector carriage which is movable relative to a frame and adjacent the array of unshuffled cards to elect at least one card therefrom, thereby moving cards from the unshuffled array to a shuffled array of cards, the shuffled array of cards having a random array, the shuffled array of cards being supported on a shuffled card surface directly adjacent the unshuffled card surface. - View Dependent Claims (23)
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