Patent ID: 8740218

Claim:
A modular system for handing out playing cards in a deck, comprising: a card-handing module comprising: a control unit that includes a motor; a rotatable spinner core for accommodating a stacked deck of playing cards, each of which cards is provided with a readable code, the spinner core including means for reading said code and for ejecting one single card in response to an item of information which is stored in the control unit that includes the motor for turning and positioning a cartridge in response to the information contained in the control unit; an outer housing which is stationary and essentially closed for enclosing the spinner core which is rotatably journalled within the housing by means of the motor having four angular positions, wherein: said spinner core accommodating the means for reading and ejecting playing cards and containing the control unit and the motor, said housing having openings for introducing playing cards and for passage of playing cards accomplished in said number of angular positions, the means for reading said code rotates together with the spinner core, and the card-handing module including a handing-out station for ejecting one card at a time in a predetermined direction, and the motor having four angular positions, the card-handing module including only a single compartment configured to receive the deck; and a frame module with a number of card compartments and configured for receiving the card-handing module in such a manner that a card compartment is disposed in each of said predetermined directions and that the card-handing module can be taken readily out from the frame module; wherein the frame module has an opening at the top for insertion and removal of the card-handing module.