Playing card dealing shoe with automated internal card feeding and card reading
First Claim
1. A mechanical card dealing shoe comprising a card in-feed area where an approximately vertical stack of cards can be seated, face down,a card moving element that moves a lowermost card in the stack, one card at-a-time from the approximately vertical stack of cards,an automatic mechanical transporting system for horizontally transporting individual cards moved from the vertical set of cards to a card delivery area without randomizing an order of the cards,a card reading system that reads at least one of suit, rank and value of cards before cards become stationary in the card delivery area;
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Abstract
A distinct dealing shoe having no shuffling functionality receives shuffled, randomized or ordered group of cards. The cards may be mechanically moved one at a time from a receiving area for the deck to a buffer area where more than one card is temporarily stored. The cards in the buffer area are then mechanically moved to a card delivery area where the cards may be manually removed, one-at-a-time, by a dealer. The cards are read one-at-a-time inside of the dealing shoe, either before the buffer area or after leaving the buffer area, but preferably before the cards are being manually removed from the card delivery area. The information from the card reading may be used for game tracking, hand tracking, player information, and other security issues at casino table card games.
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7 Claims
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1. A mechanical card dealing shoe comprising a card in-feed area where an approximately vertical stack of cards can be seated, face down,
a card moving element that moves a lowermost card in the stack, one card at-a-time from the approximately vertical stack of cards, an automatic mechanical transporting system for horizontally transporting individual cards moved from the vertical set of cards to a card delivery area without randomizing an order of the cards, a card reading system that reads at least one of suit, rank and value of cards before cards become stationary in the card delivery area; - and
a card dispensing end in the card delivery area that permits the removal of only one card at a time from the card dispensing end. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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