Patent ID: 8998210
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
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, 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; a number counter for counting and storing the number of cards received from the discharge opening; a voiding means for making a void hole or a notch on a card placed in the discharge opening; a disposed card stocker for receiving a card that has passed through the voiding means in a disposed card carton; 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 sequentially receives the cards that are used in each game and thereafter get collected therein, and is configured to be capable of receiving all cards left unused in the dealing shoe when the game is stopped at a predetermined time after the cut card is drawn from the dealing shoe, and the deck examination means adds the number of cards used in each game, that number being counted by the number counter, and the number of the cards left unused in the dealing shoe at the predetermined time after the cut card is drawn from the dealing shoe, and determines whether the number of the cards disposed of matches the number of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks.