Mechanized playing card dealing shoe with automatic jam recovery
First Claim
1. A mechanized playing card delivery shoe comprising:
- a. A card in-feed area;
b. At least one card mover that mechanically moves cards individually from the card in-feed area to a card delivery area;
c. At least one sensor capable of sensing at least the presence of a card in a card location within the card delivery shoe; and
d. A microprocessor for controlling the operation of the card delivery shoe, wherein the microprocessor receives a signal from the at least one sensor and determines if the signal indicates a jam has occurred, and is programmed to cause the at least one card mover to alter a direction of movement of a card to recover from a jam.
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Abstract
A distinct dealing shoe having no shuffling functionality receives a 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 a card delivery area. 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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19 Claims
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1. A mechanized playing card delivery shoe comprising:
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a. A card in-feed area; b. At least one card mover that mechanically moves cards individually from the card in-feed area to a card delivery area; c. At least one sensor capable of sensing at least the presence of a card in a card location within the card delivery shoe; and d. A microprocessor for controlling the operation of the card delivery shoe, wherein the microprocessor receives a signal from the at least one sensor and determines if the signal indicates a jam has occurred, and is programmed to cause the at least one card mover to alter a direction of movement of a card to recover from a jam. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method of recovering from a card jam in a card delivery shoe, comprising:
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a. Providing a shoe with; i. a card in-feed area for receiving a group of cards used in a card game; ii. at least one card moving mechanism that moves cards individually out of the card in-feed area and into a card delivery area; iii. a card delivery area adapted for manual removal of individual cards; iv. a drive system for causing the card-moving mechanism to move cards; v. a sensor capable of sensing a card jam; and vi. a microprocessor that controls the operation of the shoe; b. Loading a group of cards into the shoe; c. Receiving an activation signal to activate the card-moving mechanism to move cards; d. Moving cards individually from the card in-feed area to the card delivery area; and e. Wherein the microprocessor causes the drive system to alter normal card movement to automatically recover from a jam when a signal is received from the sensor indicating the occurrence of a jam. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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