Title:
SMART DISCARD RACK FOR PLAYING CARDS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2005009561
Kind Code:
B1
Abstract:
A discard rack moves and reads suit and rank of individual cards. The cards are provided to a card in-feed area and moved to a card collection area. Both suit and rank of each card is read in the card in-feed area or between the card in-feed area and the card collection area. The discard rack comprises a) a card infeed area with card moving elements that move only a bottom card from a set of cards in the card in-feed area, b) a card collection area that receives cards from the card moving area in the same sense as cards are received in the card in-feed area, c) an image capture device that captures data from a card while the card is between the card in-feed area and the card collection area, d) preferably a communication port to send out captured data to a processor, and e) an elevator that lowers to maintain a level at which cards are received in the card collection area.
Inventors:
GRAUZER ATTILA
SCHUBERT OLIVER M
KELLY JAMES V
STASSON JAMES B
SCHEPER PAUL K
SCHUBERT OLIVER M
KELLY JAMES V
STASSON JAMES B
SCHEPER PAUL K
Application Number:
PCT/US2004/022653
Publication Date:
December 08, 2005
Filing Date:
July 14, 2004
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SHUFFLE MASTER INC (US)
International Classes:
A63F1/12; A63F13/00; G06F17/00; A63F; (IPC1-7): A63F13/00
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