Device and means for the distribution of playing cards and/or of cards being accessories of a game

Abstract

Abstract The device comprises, in the card-storage magazine (MS), an optical card reader (86), the said magazine being disposed above a card- entrainment assembly consisting of a conveyor belt (47); the said cards are discharged one by one after optical reading towards a mechanism (63) for distributing the cards, arranged according to a pre-established orientation, depending on the card's identity, and after checking its allocation, given by the program card, so as to come into correspondence, via articulation, with a set of chutes (18- 19-20-21) for distributing profiled cards permitting stacking of the cards in a receiver-cassette (CR) with compartments, disposed in the lower front part of the device; the said mechanism for the distribution of the cards at the exit of the storage magazine is arranged so as to permit accelerated discharge of the card at the exit of the storage magazine. <IMAGE>

Inventors

• 👤 Roger Boyer

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