Patents Assigned to Thomas E. Sawyer
  • High-capacity automatic playing card shuffler
    Patent number: 5718427
    Abstract: Playing cards from two unshuffled card stacks are interleaved or shuffled in random by propelling the cards in two intersecting trajectories and interleaving the cards into a single shuffled card collection at the intersection point of the trajectories. Two card holding bins receive the unshuffled card stacks of playing cards and preferably a random number of cards are removed at a time. The interleaved cards settle downward onto an elevator assembly to form the shuffled card collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignees: Tony A. Cranford, Thomas E. Sawyer
    Inventors: Tony A. Cranford, Thomas E. Sawyer, Michael G. Humecki, Richard G. Stewart, Gerald A. Dal Ferro