Card disposal system for table game

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9403082-B2
Application number	US-201514680990-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 7, 2015
Priority date	May 17, 2012
Publication date	Aug 2, 2016
Grant date	Aug 2, 2016

Abstract

A card disposal system for a table game is provided that is capable of assuring the disposal of all of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks that are used at a game table without any deficiency and without any fraudulent diversion being made over such cards.
A card disposal system for a table game of the present invention includes a discharge opening ( 4 ) for disposal of cards ( 3 ) after a game, a disposed card receiving board ( 5 ) for receiving the cards 3 from the discharge opening ( 4 ), a disposed card information acquiring means ( 6 ) that acquires information on the number (rank) of the card 3 placed in the discharge opening ( 4 ), a group information acquiring means ( 7 ) that acquires group information of the card ( 3 ) disposed of, a card counter ( 8 ) serving as a number counting means that counts the number of cards ( 3 ) that are placed in the discharge opening ( 4 ) for disposal, a deck examination means ( 13 ) that determines whether cards ( 3 h ) to be disposed of includes all the cards within a predetermined number of decks, for example, 416 cards in case of 8 decks (52 cards.times.8 decks), and an output means ( 10 ) that outputs a result of the determination. With the card disposal system, a void hole is made on the card to be disposed of, and the disposal of all the cards without any deficiency and without any fraudulent diversion being made over such cards is assured.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A card disposal system for disposing of cards that are housed in a card dealing apparatus (dealing shoe) placed on a game table and manually dealt onto the game table after the use thereof in a game, the card disposal system comprising:
a set of cards made up of a plurality of decks of cards that can be housed in the dealing shoe; and
a card disposal apparatus for disposing the cards collected from the game table, wherein a cut card for stopping a game is included in the set of cards,
the card disposal apparatus includes:
a discharge opening for receiving a card to be disposed of from the game table;
a number counter for counting and storing the number of cards received from the discharge opening;
a card carton for receiving cards for disposal; and
a deck examination means for determining whether the number of cards placed in the discharged opening matches the number of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks,
the discharge opening for receiving the cards that are manually dealt onto the game table thereafter got collected therein, and the cards left unused in the dealing shoe, and
the deck examination means adds the number of cards manually dealt onto the game table and used in each game and the number of the cards left unused in the dealing shoe after the last game has stopped, and determines whether the added total number of the cards received by the discharge opening matches the number of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks that have been previously housed in a card dealing apparatus before games for the examination of any loss in the games.

2. The card disposal system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the system further have the voiding means configured to make a void hole or a notch on the cards.

3. The card disposal system according to claim 1 , further comprising a printing means or a stamping means that exhibits a result of the determination made by the deck examination means on the card carton.

4. The card disposal system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the card carton is provided with a bar code different for each of the card carton.

5. A card disposal system for disposing of cards that are housed in a card dealing apparatus (dealing shoe) placed on a game table and manually dealt onto the game table after the use thereof in a game, the card disposal system comprising:
a set of cards made up of a plurality of decks of cards that can be housed in the dealing shoe; and
a card disposal apparatus for disposing the cards collected from the game table,
wherein the card disposal apparatus includes:
a discharge opening for receiving a card to be disposed of from the game table;
a number counter for counting and storing the number of cards received from the discharge opening;
a card carton for receiving cards for disposal; and
a deck examination means,
wherein the deck examination means examines at predetermined timing(s) at least whether or not each numbers of the cards received by the discharge opening which have the same rank match the numbers of the cards in every ranks sent by the dealing shoe through a communication means and outputs the result of the examination.

6. The card disposal system according to claim 1 or 5 ,
wherein the set of cards made up of a plurality of decks of cards is a shuffled playing cards shuffled to have a unique arrangement order and packaged in a package and a uniquely identifiable shuffled card ID being different each other attached to each shuffled playing cards set as an ID code or RFID (IC tag); and the system has a barcode or RFID(IC tag) reader to reads the ID code.

7. The card disposal system according to claim 6 ,
wherein the deck examination means outputs the result of the examination and the system stores the results with the ID code of the shuffled playing cards.

8. The card disposal system according to claims 5 ,
wherein the card carton is disposed with a bar code.

9. The card disposal system according to claims 5 ,
wherein the system further has the voiding means configured to make a void hole or a notch on the cards.

10. The card disposal system according to claim 5 ,
wherein the discharge opening for receiving the cards that are used in each game and thereafter got collected therein, and the cards left unused in the dealing shoe, and
wherein the deck examination determines whether the total number of the cards which have the same rank received by the discharge opening matches the number of each rank of the cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks.

Assignees

• Angel Playing Cards Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shigeta Yasushi

Classifications

• A63F2009/2425

  Scanners, e.g. for scanning regular characters · CPC title

• A63F1/14

  Card dealers · CPC title

• G07F17/3241

  Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance (computer security G06F21/00) · CPC title

• A63F1/18

  Scoring or registering devices; Indicators (A63F1/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• A63F1/10

  Card holders · CPC title