The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Toshinori Okuno, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Nakamura, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Dengen Automatic Co. Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F / ; A63F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2731 / ; 273309 ;
Abstract
A pai (tile) arranging apparatus for an automatic playing table for a game known by the trademark Mah-Jongg, which includes a hopper provided in the playing table, a mixing unit which includes a turntable provided in the hopper, an orientation control unit for controlling orientations of plural pais (tiles), a transferring unit for transferring the tiles, an orientation detecting unit for detecting the orientations of the tiles, and an orientation correcting unit which is operative in response to a detecting signal of the orientation correcting unit.