Abstract: In an automatic card shuffler, cards already played are placed in first and second trays. Sensors arranged in the trays detect the presence of cards to automatically initiate a shuffling operation. The cards in the trays pass through the card mixer, where they are interweaved in a random fashion and deposited in a compartment arranged beneath the mixer. A carriage carrying a card ejector is reciprocated up and down by a reversible linear drive, activated when the shuffling operation begins and terminated substantially upon termination of the shuffling operation to locate the card ejector at a randomly determined position along the card receiving stack. If the stack of cards in said compartment reaches at least a minimum predetermined height, detected by a sensor arranged within the compartment, the card ejector is moved into the compartment to eject a group of cards, preferably of the order of two decks. The aforesaid ejected group of cards may then be placed in a dealing shoe.

Abstract: An automatic card shuffler comprising a housing with at least two wells to receive two reserve stacks of playing cards to be intermixed and presented to a dealer one at a time. First extractor is provided to select, remove and intermix in a random sequence the bottommost card from each stack and to deliver the intermixed cards to a storage compartment or reservoir. A second extractor is provided to sequentially remove the bottommost card from the storage compartment or reservoir and to deliver it to a shoe having a dispensing compartment from which the dealer may take the card for presentation to the players. A sensor is used for determining the approximate number of cards in at least one of the wells and for determining the presence or absence of a card from the dispensing compartment.

Abstract: A device for maximizing the random distribution of playing cards comprises a continuous, advancable track mounted on a base and supporting the cards in a vertical orientation and at least one access station which permits either or both of removal of a portion of the cards or insertion of cards onto the track.

Abstract: A computerized card shuffling machine having major portions of transparent wall making cards being shuffled at all times viewable externally, including an input shoe for holding cards to be shuffled and to be fed to a revolving wheel having a plurality of receiving positions, and including an output shoe receivable of cards fed from the plurality, mechanism for randomly matching ones individually of the plurality with the input shoe during an input cycle and with the output shoe during an output cycle, mechanism for feeding cards from the input shoe to matched ones of the plurality and from ones of the plurality to the output shoe, mechanism for selecting for any single cycle how many of the plurality shall be utilized and in what matching order, and the mechanism being for a random selection within predetermined limits, the plurality being sixteen positions inclusive of at-least one sixteen-position matching sequence of 3-4-6-3, and a matching timer mechanism inclusive of a light beam producing photoelectric

Abstract: A dealing shoe for playing cards in the form of a box having a sloping front wall with a finger opening therein communicating with a slot horizontally disposed at a lower edge of the front wall for passage of cards therethrough. A downwardly inclined support plate is disposed within the box and slidably supports a pusher which serves to push the cards toward the front wall. Springs are employed to resiliently bias the pusher toward the front wall.

Abstract: A board game for being played competitively between up to four players, and including a gameboard divided into nine areas, a set of chips for each player to place upon the gameboard areas, and a deck of cards carrying instructions for placements and removals of the chips. The game board being foldable to enclose a card shuffling device.

Abstract: A method for reducing predictability in card games such as blackjack and twenty-one in which play is periodically interrupted, played cards are shuffled, some or all of the shuffled played cards are divided into groups and the groups are returned to the stack of unplayed cards at predetermined positions.

Abstract: A device for shuffling a large number of cards, particularly playing cards in which the games played require the use of several decks that must be shuffled a number of times during continuous game play, the device comprising a housing having oppositely positioned feeding shelfs from which the cards are fed individually and alternately into a chute which is provided at its terminating end with a floating card rack. Within the housing there is provided a motor arranged to drive a plurality of timing gears, whereby a plurality of feeding rollers together with a plurality of conveyor rollers located within the card chute are driven so as to discharge the cards in a shuffled manner within the card-carriage tray.

Abstract: An action game comprising a unit for automatically and sequentially dispensing play pieces such as discs to a plurality of player stations. The players each attempt to match indicia, such as cutouts, on the discs dispensed to his or her station with indicia at that station to achieve an objective such as completing a row of discs. The illustrated unit includes a base on which a magazine for one or more stacks of the discs is rotatably mounted. As the magazine rotates, cam surfaces on the base and magazine engage discs from the bottoms of the stacks and cause such discs to be ejected outwardly to the respective player stations. When indicia do not match, the disc is put back in the magazine. The unit includes a mechanism for starting and stopping the rotation.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically arranging the Mah-Jongg tiles on a Mah-Jongg board in parallel with the four edges thereof. Two horizontal rows of Mah-Jonng tiles are automatically formed at the starting point of a Mah-Jongg tile conveyor system incorporated in the apparatus. These two horizontal rows of Mah-Jongg tiles are rearranged in two vertical tiers in the course of being thrusted forward in the Mah-Jongg tile conveyor system.

Abstract: A device for automatically assembling Mah-Jongg game tiles consists of a table having a plurality of apertures with hinged doors on the surface. A horizontally rotatable disc is centrally located within the interior of the table which cooperates with a slightly inclined rotatable link to transfer the assembled random tiles into alignment. The link leads the tiles to a selector having magnets which attract a metal piece in the tiles having a selected surface facing the magnets. The tiles are carried from the selector to a tile rest station where they are aligned in a row two tiles high. From the rest station the tiles are transferred to a pallet.

Abstract: An automatic machine for distributing playing cards or the like includes a rotatable table on which a deck of cards is supported. The rotatable table includes a reciprocating card ejection mechanism which operates during and in response to rotation of the table and which ejects cards at a plurality of locations about the device. One or more cards can be distributed at each surrounding location as desired. The device is electrically powered and includes means to automatically stop its rotation after the last card in the deck has been distributed.

Abstract: A card shuffler is disclosed comprising an inner case slidable in an outer case. The inner case has a plurality of separators that both divide the playing cards into portions of substantially equal number of cards and define compartments oriented at an angle to the direction the inner case slides in the outer case. The outer case has runners that hold the playing cards in the compartments when the inner case is fully disposed in the outer case but permit ejection of the cards, one card from each compartment simultaneously, as the inner case is slid out of the outer case.