Methods of feeding cards
AssigneeBally Gaming, Inc.
InventorRonald R. Swanson
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Abstract
A card-feeding device for feeding cards into a card-handling device may include a card infeed area that supports a stack of cards, where a pivoting arm presses against a card at the top of the stack. Methods of shuffling cards may include providing cards to be shuffled into a card infeed area as a stack with a top and bottom and removing cards one at a time from the bottom of the stack and moving the removed cards to a shuffling zone. The stack of cards is stabilized by a pivoting arm capable of pressing against the top of the stack in an engaged position. The pivot arm may be automatically rotated from a first card-engaging position to a second recessed position.
Claims20
A method of feeding cards, the method comprising:
- placing a stack of cards into a card infeed area of a card-feeding device;
- applying a force to an uppermost card of the stack of cards with a pivoting arm having a pivot point that is positioned below an upper portion of the card infeed area and below the uppermost card of the stack of cards;
- and
- removing cards one at a time from the bottom of the stack of the cards.
A method of feeding cards, the method comprising:
- placing a stack of cards into a card infeed area of a card-feeding device;
- contacting an uppermost card of the stack of cards with a pivotable arm having a pivot point that is positioned below the uppermost card of the stack of cards in the card infeed area;
- positioning at least a corner portion of the stack of cards directly between a card-engaging portion of the pivotable arm and the pivot point of the pivotable arm;
- and
- removing cards from the stack of the cards.
A method of feeding cards, the method comprising:
- placing a stack of cards into a card infeed area of a card-feeding device;
- applying a force to an uppermost card of the stack of cards with a pivotable arm having a pivot point that is positioned below the uppermost card of the stack of cards in the card infeed area;
- and
- removing cards from the stack of the cards.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.