Card handling apparatus

A card handling apparatus comprising:

• a card cassette that houses cards;
• a conveying device that separates one card at the lowest position from the cards housed in the card cassette and convey the card, which conveys the cards one by one,
• wherein the card cassette includes a first card cassette and a second card cassette, and the first card cassette is disposed on the downstream side of the second card cassette in a conveying direction of the cards,
• the first card cassette has a card entrance from which the card is put into the first card cassette on an upstream side in the conveying direction and a card exit from which the card is dispensed from the inside of the first card cassette on a downstream side in the conveying direction,
• the second card cassette has a card exit from which the card is dispensed from the inside of the second card cassette on the downstream side in the conveying direction,
• the card handling apparatus configured such that:
• when the first card cassette houses the cards, the conveying device separates one card at the lowest position from the cards housed in the first card cassette and dispenses the card from the card exit of the first card cassette, and
• when the first card cassette houses no card, the conveying device separates one card at the lowest position from the cards housed in the second card cassette, dispensing the card from the card exit of the second card cassette and putting the card into the first card cassette from the card entrance of the first card cassette to allow the card to pass inside the first card cassette and to be dispensed from the card exit of the first card cassette;
• and
• a weight to be placed on the card at the highest position in the cards housed in the first card cassette,
• wherein the card conveyed from the second card cassette to the first card cassette is conveyed between a conveying surface of the card and the weight.