Patent ID: 7644923

Claim:
An apparatus for randomly arranging a plurality of playing cards comprising: a support housing; a random card ejection unit mounted adjacent a first portion of the support housing to receive a stack of one or more playing cards and configured for randomly ejecting cards from the stack of one or more playing cards in the direction of a second portion of the support housing; and a dynamic de-doubler device mounted in the support housing adjacent the random card ejection unit and including one or more card guides positioned to direct ejected cards to the second portion of the support housing, each guide comprising an opening for receiving ejected cards, an exit adjacent the second portion of the support housing, and one or more protrusions operable to prevent more than a pre-established number of cards from exiting to the second portion of the support housing at one time, wherein the dynamic de-doubler device is mounted for movement and operable to adjust position within the support housing in response to the one or more protrusions being struck by playing cards randomly ejected from the random card ejection unit.