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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2009
Attila Grauzer, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Oliver M. Schubert, Las Vegas, NV (US);
James V. Kelly, Las Vegas, NV (US);
James B. Stasson, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Paul K. Scheper, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attila Grauzer, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Oliver M. Schubert, Las Vegas, NV (US);
James V. Kelly, Las Vegas, NV (US);
James B. Stasson, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Paul K. Scheper, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Shuffle Master, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
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 in-feed 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.