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US 5,067,713 AGranted
Coded playing cards and apparatus for dealing a set of cards
AssigneeTechnical Systems Corp.
InventorsJack A. Soules, Bryan D. Carpenter
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AssigneeTechnical Systems Corp.
InventorsJack A. Soules, Bryan D. Carpenter
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A deck of cards is coded by marking each card on its face with a bar code which is essentially invisible to the human eye, but can be read by a detector matched to the source of wavelength of the light used to irradiate each card as it is passed over the surface of a portable housing which houses the detector and the associated reading means. Appropriate hardware is also housed in the housing to process the coded information read. The software provided stores a number of predetermined "hands" which are to be dealt. It can also deal a random deal, more random than can be dealt by human shuffling of the deck. A method is provided to deal a preselected "deal" to a chosen number of players, typically four, the apparatus indicating to the human dealer to which location each card is to be dealt.
An apparatus for manually dealing coded playing cards to each of plural locations so that a preselected set of cards will be dealt to each specific location, without contacting the sides of the cards, the apparatus comprising, a housing having a platform with a surface over which a plurality of coded cards are passed face down and read, one card at a time;
A method for manually sorting while dealing a set of coded cards having an essentially invisible bar code printed on the face of each card without contacting the sides of the cards, comprising,
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