DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY SHUFFLING CARDS

摘要

The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into a second group of cards, wherein the second group of cards is randomly arranged or shuffled. The apparatus (21) comprises a card receiver (26) for receiving the first group of cards, a single stack of card-receiving compartments (28) generally adjacent to the card receiver, the stack generally vertically movable, an elevator (80, 82, 112) for moving the stack, a card-moving mechanism (30) between the card receiver and the stack for moving cards one at a time into a selected one of the compartments, another card moving mechanism (34) for moving cards from one of the compartments to a second card receiver (36) and a microprocessor (360) that controls the card-moving mechanisms and the elevator.