Patent ID: 9744437
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. An automated card shuffling and dealing device, in turn shuffling and in turn dealing two playing card sets in a game, comprising: a dealing tabletop, comprising two card slot assemblies for correspondingly placing the two playing card sets and capable of moving and exchanging positions, and a card slot assembly moving mechanism for moving and exchanging the positions of the two card slot assemblies, the two card slot assemblies each provided with a shuffled card box and a dealt card box, and respectively located at a card drawing position and a card shuffling position; a shuffling machine, comprising a to-be-shuffled slot for accommodating the playing card set to be shuffled and a shuffled slot, the playing card set to be shuffled is stacked in the shuffled slot after having been shuffled, the shuffling machine moving the playing card set in the dealt card box to the to-be-shuffled slot and moving the playing card set having been shuffled in the shuffled slot to the corresponding shuffled card box; a dealing element, sequentially dealing and uncovering cards according to a rule of the game; a playing card replacement determining element, sending a replacement signal according to a predetermined rule; and a control unit; wherein, the control unit controls the dealing element to align with the playing card set in the shuffled card box of the card slot assembly at the card drawing position, sequentially draw and deal the cards in the playing card set, and move the uncovered cards to the corresponding dealt card box; concurrently, the control unit controls the shuffling machine to align with and shuffle the playing card set in the dealt card box of the card slot assembly at the card shuffling position; during the dealing, the playing card replacement determining element continuously monitors whether the dealing satisfies the predetermined rule, and sends the replacement rule when the predetermined rule is satisfied to inform the control unit, to cause the control unit to control the dealing element to stop dealing, and to move the remaining playing cards in the playing card set to the corresponding dealt card box; the control unit then controls the card slot assembly moving mechanism to exchange the positions of the two card slot assemblies, so as to have the shuffled card box and the dealt card box of the two card slot assemblies to exchange positions; after the positions are exchanged, the control unit controls the shuffling machine and the dealing element to respectively shuffle and deal the cards to complete one cycle.