Patent attributes
An automatic shuffling and dealing machine has a shuffling wheel and a card-input device mounted adjacent to the shuffling wheel. The card-input device is provided for putting a stack of playing card and inserting cards into slots formed around the shuffling wheel. The shuffling wheel can be controlled by a controller to rotate randomly, and has a discharging rod to discharge at least one card in the slots of the shuffling wheel as the shuffling wheel temporarily stop in undetermined angles, such that the card arrangement may be randomized. Besides, the automatic shuffling and dealing machine further has a card-output device or card-output apparatus to deal the discharged cards one by one. With such an arrangement, the automatic shuffling and dealing machine may provide convenience for card games.
