Patent ID: 7523936
Filing Date: 2009-04-28
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of delivering playing cards, the method comprising providing a playing card delivery apparatus comprising a card loading area, a playing card receiver and a delivery tray; placing a group of cards in the card loading area; shuffling the playing cards by moving the first playing card from a group of playing cards in the card loading area to the playing card receiver, wherein each playing card is moved to only one playing card receiver in shuffling the group of playing cards; creating a displacement between a subsequent playing card that will be moved from the group of playing cards in the card loading area and the playing card receiver; moving at least a second playing card from the group of playing cards in the card loading area after creating the displacement; directly delivering from the playing card receiver to the delivery tray a number of playing cards comprising at least the first and second playing cards to form a deliverable hand of playing cards consisting of all cards present in the delivery tray; removing the entire deliverable hand of playing cards from the delivery tray and delivering all playing cards to hand positions at a gambling table in groups of the deliverable cards; sensing a removal of the number of playing cards from the delivery tray; and subsequently delivering at least one additional number of playing cards from the card receiver to the delivery tray from which multiple cards may be manually removed from the delivery tray at a same time.