Patent ID: 7753374

Claim:
An automatic shuffling machine comprising a base having a rotary driver being mounted on the base and having a drive gear rotatably mounted thereon; and a controller being mounted securely on the base and controlling the rotary driver; and a shuffling wheel being mounted rotatably on the stage, being driven by the rotary driver to selectively rotate a random number of degrees and having multiple card slots being formed radially around the shuffling wheel; a card input being mounted adjacent to the shuffling wheel and having a conveyor being mounted in the card input and having at multiple active rollers being mounted in pairs in the card input and having an input gap formed therebetween that selectively aligns with the card slots of the shuffling wheel; a separator being mounted in the card input and having a driven roller being rotatably mounted adjacent to the conveyor and having a frictional surface formed around which; and a resilient element being mounted adjacent to the driven roller and selectively pressing against the driven roller; and a drive system being mounted in the card input and connecting to and driving each active roller and driven roller to rotate; and at least one insertion panel being securely mounted adjacent to the card input and the shuffling wheel and having at least one tangent surface being formed on the insertion panel, adjacent to and protruding at a tangent from the shuffling wheel.