Patent ID: 7073791
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An automatic card shuffling and hand forming device, comprising: a card receiver; a card shuffling mechanism; a card moving mechanism capable of moving cards from the card receiver into the card shuffling mechanism; a hand-forming mechanism that forms a hand of at least one set of cards within the card shuffling mechanism from cards in the card receiver; an output tray; a second card moving mechanism that moves already formed hands from the hand forming mechanism into the output tray as a group of cards; and a processor for controlling the operation of the device, and when a first hand of randomized cards is delivered to output tray as a group of cards, and when the hand of cards is manually removed, another hand is automatically delivered to the output tray as a group of cards until either a maximum number of hands is delivered, or a signal is received by the processor to cease delivering hands.