Global Patent Index - EP 1952859 A1

EP 1952859 A1 20080806 - Card shuffling apparatus

Title (en)

Card shuffling apparatus

Title (de)

Kartenmischgerät

Title (fr)

Appareil pour battre les cartes

Publication

EP 1952859 A1 20080806 (EN)

Application

EP 07001973 A 20070130

Priority

EP 07001973 A 20070130

Abstract (en)

A card shuffling apparatus includes an indexed wheel (14) having a plurality of card compartments and a card push arm (18), and being controllable by a control circuit and a motor (141) to rotate to a randomly determined position; a card input mechanism (11) for feeding cards of an unshuffled deck one by one into the card compartments of the indexed wheel (14); and a card output mechanism (17) with which cards pushed out of the indexed wheel (14) by the second card push arm (114) are collected and then sent out one by one until a predetermined number of cards has been sent out.

IPC 8 full level

A63F 1/12 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

A63F 1/12 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

Designated extension state (EPC)

AL BA HR MK RS

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 1952859 A1 20080806

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 07001973 A 20070130