HIGH-CAPACITY AUTOMATIC PLAYING CARD SHUFFLER

摘要

Playing cards from two unshuffled card stacks (26 and 27) are interleaved or shuffled in random by propelling the cards in two intersecting trajectories and interleaving the cards into a single shuffled card collection (34) at the intersection point of the trajectories. Two card holding bins (28 and 30) receive the unshuffled card stacks (26 and 27) of playing cards and preferably a random number of cards are removed at a time. The interleaved cards settle downward onto an elevator assembly (110) to form the shuffled card collection (34).