Patent Document ID: 9266011
Application ID: 14462108
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A card-handling device, comprising: a card holding area configured to receive and maintain a set of cards to be input into the card-handling device in a vertically stacked configuration, such that a face of each card of the set of cards is oriented parallel to a horizontal plane; a carousel rotatable about a horizontal axis and comprising at least substantially radially extending card storage compartments, each of the card storage compartments being sized and configured to receive a card therein; a card input mechanism configured to automatically transfer cards having faces in a first orientation one by one from the card holding area in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal axis to card storage compartments of the carousel, the card input mechanism being laterally adjacent to the carousel; and a card output mechanism configured to automatically transfer cards from the card storage compartments of the carousel in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal axis to a card collector structure, the card output mechanism being located on a side of the horizontal axis of the carousel opposite the card input mechanism, wherein the carousel is rotatable about the horizontal axis such that each of the card storage compartments is orientable in a first position proximate the card input mechanism to receive a card in a respective card storage compartment with the face thereof in one of an upward and a downward orientation and a second position proximate the card output mechanism in which the face of the card transferred from the respective card storage compartment of the card storage compartments is in a second, at least substantially opposite orientation.