Shuffle Master, Incorporated

Bally Gaming, Inc.

Shfl Entertainment, Inc.

Sion D Walsh

Attila Grauzer

Paul K Scheper

James R Roberts

Justin G Downs, Iii

Roger M Snow

Robert J Rynda

Russell Caronan

Justin G Iii Downs

An apparatus for handling cards has a dispensing end. The dispensing end has a base plate for supporting cards being manually removed. An upper plate with a U-shaped opening is spaced above the base plate and defines a slot for cards to pass. First and second spaced apart card guides define side edges of the slot. The first card guide is shorter than the second card guide, creating an offset in a first direction of travel of cards being removed. A method of removing cards is also disclosed, enabling movement of cards in at least two directions due to the presence of a card guide offset.

Methods of forming playing card-handling devices

Methods of delivering a playing card from a playing card-handling device

Methods of delivering a playing card from a playing card handling device

Ergonomic card delivery shoe

Electronic roulette table

A playing card delivery shoe is used in the play of the casino table card game of baccarat or blackjack or any game where cards are pulled one at a time from the shoe. The apparatus comprises a reader or an imager that scans lines bisecting the image at spaced intervals. The scanning occurs on playing cards in at least the region where suit and rank symbols are provided. The scanner output is a series of voltages that are converted to binary information. This binary information is compared to stored binary information to determine rank and suit. The upper surface of the output end of the shoe contains a partial barrier for cards being scanned. The partial barrier has an elevated surface and limits a size of a pathway so that only one card can be removed at a time.

Card shoe with card block

Method of locating rank and suit symbols on cards

Manual dealing shoe with card feed limiter

Growing community of inventors

Las Vegas, NV, United States of America

Sion D Walsh