Card handling devices and methods of using such devices

摘要

A card-handling device reads a suit and value of individual cards that are moved through the card-handling device. Reading of the cards is effected after the cards have been received into a card holding area and before the cards have been delivered into a card collection area from which cards are removed from the card-handling device for use. The read suit and rank are then sent to a processor, wherein the processor identifies whether any card is a card that should be rejected from the card-handling device and the card-handling device then rejecting that card from the card-handling device.

主权项

1. A card handling device, comprising:
a card holding area and a card collecting area; a magazine configured to temporarily store cards between the card holding area and the card collecting area; a reject mechanism positioned to reject a card before it is delivered to the magazine; a sensor positioned to read suit and rank of each card before it is delivered to the magazine; and a processor operatively connected to the sensor and the reject mechanism, wherein the processor is operatively connected to receive suit and rank information from the sensor, and wherein the processor is programmed to identify whether a read card should be rejected and cause the reject mechanism to reject the read card from the card handling device.