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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
May. 13, 2016
Applicant:
Shuffle Master Gmbh & CO KG, Vienna, AT;
Inventors:
Ernst Blaha, Irenetalstrasse, AT;
Peter Krenn, Neufeld, AT;
Assignee:
Shuffle Master GmbH & Co KG, Vienna, AT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 1/12 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01); A63F 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 1/12 (2013.01); A63F 1/10 (2013.01); G07F 17/3241 (2013.01);
Abstract
A card feed system for feeding cards into a card handling system. The card feed system includes a card input compartment with a playing card support surface, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls. The playing card support surface slopes toward the front wall at an angle between 12 degrees and 22 degrees. A slot is provided in the front wall to allow single cards to pass into the card handling system. The card feed system also includes a card moving system to advance cards through the slot.