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US 2019/0160371 A1Published application
Playing card shufflers including shuffler supports and related methods
AssigneeBally Gaming, Inc.
InventorsAttila Grauzer, Oliver M. Schubert, James V. Kelly, James B. Stasson, Feraidoon Bourbour, Paul K. Scheper
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Abstract
A device for forming a random set of playing cards. The device may include a card receiving area for receiving an initial set of playing cards, a randomizing system for randomizing an order of the initial set of playing cards, and a card collection surface in a card collection area for receiving randomized playing cards.
Claims20
An automatic playing card shuffler comprising:
- a housing configured to be utilized at a gaming table, the housing comprising a playing card support surface in a playing card receiver for accepting a group of playing cards to be shuffled from a location proximate a top surface of the gaming table;
- a shuffler support plate mounted to the housing, wherein the shuffler support plate is configured to position the housing adjacent the gaming table;
- a randomizing system for randomizing the order of the group of playing cards to provide randomized playing cards;
- a collection surface for supporting the randomized playing cards;
- and
- an elevator for raising the collection surface to an elevation to enable a dealer to manually remove all of the randomized playing cards at one time from the location proximate the top surface of the gaming table.
3 more elements
A playing card shuffler comprising:
- a housing comprising a playing card support surface in a playing card receiver for accepting a group of playing cards to be shuffled;
- a shuffler support plate mounted to the housing, wherein the shuffler support plate is configured to position the housing immediately proximate a gaming device having a playing surface, the shuffler support plate configured to position an upper portion of the housing at an elevational level substantially the same as a playing surface of the gaming device;
- a randomizing system for randomizing the order of the group of playing cards resulting in randomized playing cards;
- a collection surface for supporting the randomized playing cards;
- and
- an elevator for raising the collection surface to an elevation to enable a dealer to manually remove all of the randomized playing cards at one time from a location proximate the playing surface of the gaming device.
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A method of installing a playing card shuffler, the method comprising:
- positioning a shuffler support plate adjacent a gaming table;
- and
- mounting a housing of the playing card shuffler to the shuffler support plate, the housing configured to accept a group of playing cards to be shuffled from a location proximate a playing surface of the gaming table and through an upper portion of the housing, to randomize the group of playing cards, and to provide the randomized group of playing cards back through the upper portion of the housing back to the location proximate the playing surface of the gaming table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.