Patent ID: 9403082
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: A63F,G07F

Claim Text:
1. A card disposal system for disposing of cards that are housed in a card dealing apparatus (dealing shoe) placed on a game table and manually dealt onto the game table after the use thereof in a game, the card disposal system comprising: a set of cards made up of a plurality of decks of cards that can be housed in the dealing shoe; and a card disposal apparatus for disposing the cards collected from the game table, wherein a cut card for stopping a game is included in the set of cards, the card disposal apparatus includes: a discharge opening for receiving a card to be disposed of from the game table; a number counter for counting and storing the number of cards received from the discharge opening; a card carton for receiving cards for disposal; and a deck examination means for determining whether the number of cards placed in the discharged opening matches the number of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks, the discharge opening for receiving the cards that are manually dealt onto the game table thereafter got collected therein, and the cards left unused in the dealing shoe, and the deck examination means adds the number of cards manually dealt onto the game table and used in each game and the number of the cards left unused in the dealing shoe after the last game has stopped, and determines whether the added total number of the cards received by the discharge opening matches the number of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks that have been previously housed in a card dealing apparatus before games for the examination of any loss in the games.