Abstract: Card-handling devices may include a card-shuffling apparatus, a card output portion, and/or a card input portion. The card input portion may include a card rotation device. The card rotation device may be configured to receive and rotate cards about a minor axis of the cards. The card-handling device may include a card-shuffling apparatus including a carousel having at least one hundred compartments each configured to hold between one and ten cards and arranged radially about the carousel. The card-handling device may be positioned at a gaming structure with a playing surface. The card-handling device may include a card output portion for receiving shuffled cards from the card-shuffling apparatus. The card output portion may be configured to receive the cards where major faces of the playing cards are oriented in a plane substantially transverse to the playing surface.

Abstract: An imager is employed for reading a bar code from patron library card or a library material for subsequent processing and derivation of the bar code for subsequent processing by a library cataloging system.

Abstract: An arcuate door stop for use in limiting the opening of the door on a clothes dryer or other appliance having a similar type of downwardly pivoting access door, has an arcuate link pivotally secured, near one end, to the door and a plurality of detents spaced from the end secured to the door, which cooperate with a transverse roller mounted on the appliance to support the door in a like plurality of different open positions including a position in which the door is displaced substantially 180.degree. from its closed position and in spaced relationship to the face of the cabinet appliance to permit unobstructed access to the interior of the appliance. A spring serves to both bias the link into engagement with the roller and to counterbalance the door.

Abstract: The dryer apparatus includes a cabinet that rotatably supports a drum therein. A door on the cabinet is operable between an open position to permit access to the drum and a closed position. A motor is provided for rotating the drum and cycle changing apparatus is provided for changing the cycle of operation of the dryer between a normal tumble dry operation and a static dry operation. Included is control means for operating the cycle changing apparatus and for simultaneously deenergizing the motor as the dryer is switched from one cycle of operation to another cycle of operation. The control means comprises a switch movable to a closed state in response to movement of the door to the closed position to connect the motor with a source of energy. The control means further includes an actuating shaft and an operating lever on the actuating shaft that is connected to the cycle changing apparatus for effecting the change in cycle of operation of the dryer as the shaft is moved from a first to a second position.