Abstract: A card feed system for feeding cards into a card handling system is disclosed. The system includes a card input department with a playing card support surface, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls. The playing card support surface slopes towards the front wall at an angle between 12 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.

Abstract: A card shuffler has a drivable shuffling storage means (2?) which is provided with compartments (69) for receiving cards (13). The storage means is associated with an input apparatus for the insertion of cards one by one into the compartments (69) and an output apparatus spaced from the same for the shuffled cards, with the drive of the shuffling storage means (2?), the input apparatus and the output apparatus being controlled by a microprocessor. The number of shuffled cards supplied to the output apparatus at a time is adjusted to be the number of cards necessary per player for the respective card game. In order to improve the shuffling result in such a shuffler it is provided that the cards supplied to the output apparatus are taken from at least two compartments (69) of the shuffling storage means (2?).

Abstract: Chip sorting devices include a rotatable disc having a plurality of wells for receiving chips therein, a plurality of channels for holding stacks of chips, at least one ejector for ejecting chips from the wells of the disc into the channels, and at least one removal lever associated with at least one of the channels. The removal lever has an arm configured to extend adjacent at least a portion of a stack of chips when the stack of chips is in the channel. Other chip sorting devices include a plurality of wells for receiving chips therein, a plurality of channels for holding stacks of chips, at least one ejector for ejecting chips from the wells of the disc into the channels, and at least one spring member configured to bias the ejector to a position.

Abstract: A card handling device includes a sensing system for identifying cards handled thereby. A control system may be configured to selectively control an infeed system, a storage system, and/or an output system of the device in response to a signal received from the sensing system, and to enable a user to selectively perform one or more of a shuffling operation, a sorting operation, and a dealing operation using the device. A card handling device may be configured to dispense randomly arranged hands, prearranged hands, randomly arranged decks, or prearranged decks.

Abstract: A card feed system for feeding cards into a card handling system is disclosed. The system includes a card input department with a playing card support surface, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls. The playing card support surface slopes towards the front wall at an angle between 12 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.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sorting device for sorting gaming chips and counters. Said device comprises a collection container (1) located on a base frame (36), an adjoining oblique transport disc (3) for receiving and separating the gaming chips and counters (27), a characteristic identification system positioned in the vicinity of the transport disc (3), in addition to a transfer device (11), which distributes the gaming chips and counters (27) that are sorted according to characteristics in removal units (12) with a preferably U-shaped cross-section. The invention is characterised in that the gaming chips and counters (27) are transferred directly from the transport disc (3) to the removal units (12), the radially external region of said transport disc (3) having recesses (8), into which the gaming chips and counters (27) are separated.

Abstract: Apparatuses for stacking chips include a container for receiving unstacked chips, a carrier comprising a channel for carrying a chip stack, a transport system for transporting chips from the container towards the carrier, and at least one ejector system for ejecting or moving chips from the transport system into the channel of the carrier. Chip stack cutter devices may include an elongated displacement member, which may extend from an actuating lever member movably coupled to a base member configured to slide along a channel of a chip stack carrier. In additional embodiments, the cutter device may include an energy-responsive device configured to selectively move an elongated displacement member for displacing a number of chips in a chip stack carried in a channel of a chip stack carrier.

Abstract: The invention comprises a pre-shuffler that receives a quantity of cards to be shuffled, such as nine decks of cards. One embodiment of the pre-shuffler includes a horizontal moveable box having, for example, nine compartments with vertical walls for separating the cards to be shuffled into groups. Cards are placed into all or some of the compartments in the box, and a shuffling sequence is then commenced. A motor moves the box containing the cards so that the cards in the first compartment are deposited into an input tray of the main card shuffler. The main shuffler then forwards the cards in the input tray one by one, via rollers, to selected card receptacles in the main shuffler. The process is then continued for each group of cards in the pre-shuffler until all cards are in the main shuffler. The main shuffler then shuffles the cards in a normal fashion. The cards output from the main shuffler are in a more random order than had the cards not been pre-shuffled by the pre-shuffler.

Abstract: Multicolored casino wagering chips are assigned temporary values and those values are transmitted to a separate device, such as a chip sorter that is used to determine chip values and value flow during a casino table game. A single color chip is temporarily associated with a chosen value for that color chip, and the value/chip relationship is provided to all systems that use that relationship in assessing game performance, wins, losses, payouts, record keeping, and security for the table game. In one embodiment of the technology described herein, a set of opposed slots on a rack is provided, with a single color of chip and an electronic marker positioned on an opposed pair of slots. The marker sends out a signal regarding the temporary value of the color chip, and that sent value is used by all automated systems on or about the gaming table to assign value to that color chip.

Abstract: A shuffling device for playing cards and method of shuffling cards is provided where a first group of cards is moved within the device to form a randomized second group of cards. The device comprises moving parts that assist in the movement of cards within the shuffling device; a processor in informational connection with the shuffling device; a sensor which detects at least one of speed, distance and force of at least one moving part and provides a signal to the processor regarding detection of at least one of speed, distance and force; and the processor containing a program that interprets the signal to detect significant variations in at least one of speed, distance and force of the moving part.

Abstract: Multicolored casino wagering chips are assigned temporary values and those values are read in a first device then transmitted to an external computer where they can be accessed by a separate device, such as a chip sorter to determine chip values and value flow during a casino table game. A single color chip is temporarily associated with a chosen value for that color chip, and the value/chip relationship is provided to all systems that use that relationship in assessing game performance, wins, losses, payouts, record keeping, and security for the table game. In one embodiment of the technology described herein, a set of opposed slots on a rack is provided, with a single color of chip and an electronic marker positioned on an opposed pair of slots. The marker sends out a signal regarding the temporary value associated with a color chip, or a location corresponding to a color, and that sent value is used by all automated systems on or about the gaming table to assign value to that color chip.

Abstract: A sorting device for the sorting of gaming chips comprises a base frame (36), a collection container (1), an oblique transport disc (3) adjoining the collection container (1), the oblique transport disk (3) separating and receiving gaming chips (27), a gaming chip characteristic identification system positioned adjacent the transport disc (3), a transfer device (11) distributing the gaming chips (27) in removal units (12) according to characteristics identified in the gaming chip characteristic identification system. The sorting device has a transport for transferring the gaming chips directly from the transport disc (3) to the removal units (12), and a radially external region of the transport disc (3) contains recesses (8) into which the gaming chips are separated.

Abstract: A card shuffler with a drivable shuffling storage means (2?) which is provided with compartments (69) for receiving cards (13) and which is associated with an input apparatus for inserting cards into the compartments (69) one by one and an output storage means which is spaced from the same for the shuffled cards, with the drive of the shuffling storage means (2?), the input apparatus and the output storage means being controlled by an electronic control system.

Abstract: The invention comprises a pre-shuffler that receives a quantity of cards to be shuffled, such as nine decks of cards. One embodiment of the pre-shuffler includes a horizontal moveable box having, for example, nine compartments with vertical walls for separating the cards to be shuffled into groups. Cards are placed into all or some of the compartments in the box, and a shuffling sequence is then commenced. A motor moves the box containing the cards so that the cards in the first compartment are deposited into an input tray of the main card shuffler. The main shuffler then forwards the cards in the input tray one by one, via rollers, to selected card receptacles in the main shuffler. The process is then continued for each group of cards in the pre-shuffler until all cards are in the main shuffler. The main shuffler then shuffles the cards in a normal fashion. The cards output from the main shuffler are in a more random order than had the cards not been pre-shuffled by the pre-shuffler.

Abstract: A card shuffler is disclosed having a card output portion that is easily connectable to either a first output card receiver or a second output card receiver. The first output card receiver enables the dealer to remove cards one at a time from the shuffler. The second output card receiver enables the dealer to remove a group of cards at a time from the shuffler.

Abstract: A card shuffler with a drivable shuffling storage means (2′) which is provided with compartments (69) for receiving cards (13) and which is associated with an input apparatus for inserting cards into the compartments (69) one by one and an output storage means which is spaced from the same for the shuffled cards, with the drive of the shuffling storage means (2′), the input apparatus and the output storage means being controlled by an electronic control system.

Abstract: A card shuffler with a drivable shuffling storage means (2′) which is provided with compartments (69) for receiving cards (13) and is associated with an input apparatus for the insertion of cards one by one into the compartments (69) and an output apparatus spaced from the same for the shuffled cards, with the drive of the shuffling storage means (2′), the input apparatus and the output apparatus being controlled by a microprocessor and shuffled cards supplied to the output apparatus being adjusted with respect to their number in stacks to the number of cards necessary per player for the respective card game. In order to improve the shuffling result in such a shuffler it is provided that the cards supplied to the output apparatus are taken from at least two compartments (69) of the shuffling storage means (2′).

Abstract: A card shuffler with a drivable card shuffling means (2′) with compartments (69) for receiving cards (13), which shuffling means is associated with an input apparatus for the individual insertion of cards into the compartments (69) and an output device distanced from the same for the shuffled cards, with the drive of the shuffling storage means (2′) being controlled by a randomizer, and the same being held on a basic body (1) which also carries the output device comprising a card storage means (42, 42′) for the shuffled cards. In order to enable the versatile use of such a shuffler it is provided that different card storage means (42, 42′) are provided for the removal of the shuffled cards (13) either one-by-one or in stacks, which storage means can be fastened alternatingly to a receiving means of the basic body (1).

Abstract: A playing card shuffler and dispenser has a housing and a storage container for a stack of shuffled playing cards arranged in the housing, the storage container defining an output opening for consecutively discharging a single one of the playing cards from the stack. A playing card shuffling container for a stack of playing cards to be shuffled is arranged in the housing adjacent the storage container and is movable parallel and relative thereto between two end positions, the housing defining an input opening for feeding the playing cards to be shuffled into the shuffling container in one of the end positions thereof. The shuffling container is moved by a randomly operable drive between the end positions. A playing card ejector pushes a respective one of the playing cards to be shuffled from the shuffling container into the storage container, and a randomly operable drive operates the ejector.