Card handling devices and related assemblies and components

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9993719
APP PUB NO 20170157499A1
SERIAL NO

14959536

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Card handling devices may include a card shuffling apparatus and a card output portion having a card buffer area positioned at an interface of the card shuffling apparatus and the card output portion. The card output portion may be configured to move relative to the card shuffling apparatus and alter the orientation of the card buffer area. Card handling devices having a substantially flat card output area may include an interface portion having an at least substantially flat draw surface. The substantially flat card output area may permit playing cards to be drawn from an outlet of the substantially flat card output area in a plurality of at least substantially horizontal directions. Methods of shuffling playing cards may include altering an orientation of a card buffer area and inserting cards into the card buffer area at both a top and a bottom of a group of cards within the card buffer area.

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Patent Owner(s)

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SHUFFLE MASTER GMBH & CO KGVIENNA

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Blaha, Ernst Irenetalstrasse, AT 54 3997
Krenn, Peter Neufeld, AT 68 3812

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