WO2004096389A1 - Apparatus for playing game of cards - Google Patents
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- WO2004096389A1 WO2004096389A1 PCT/HU2003/000033 HU0300033W WO2004096389A1 WO 2004096389 A1 WO2004096389 A1 WO 2004096389A1 HU 0300033 W HU0300033 W HU 0300033W WO 2004096389 A1 WO2004096389 A1 WO 2004096389A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F1/00—Card games
- A63F1/06—Card games appurtenances
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F1/00—Card games
- A63F1/06—Card games appurtenances
- A63F1/14—Card dealers
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/24—Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
- A63F2009/2401—Detail of input, input devices
- A63F2009/2411—Input form cards, tapes, discs
- A63F2009/2413—Magnetic
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/34—Games using magnetically moved or magnetically held pieces, not provided for in other subgroups of group A63F9/00
- A63F2009/345—Electromagnetically
Definitions
- the object of the invention is an apparatus for playing game of cards, having a half-round form gambling table, along the circumference of the gambling table at least one player's field is formed in the plate of the gambling table and a dealer's field is arranged as well.
- An apparatus for handling and shuffle game-cards is known from the WO-96/04969 international publication, which is used in casinos to store, shuffle and deal the cards.
- This apparatus has an inserting opening to receive a deck of cards, from which a roller system forwards the cards to a card magazine in such a manner, that a lifting device lifts a part of the cards at a random place of the cards being already in the magazine and a roller system moves a card into the so arising interspace. This process is repeated until each of the cards are inserted into the card magazine.
- the shuffle of the card deck is performed.
- the dealing of the cards is performed by forwarding the cards picked from the bottom of the card stack successively by a further roller system to a dispensing hole.
- This apparatus deals the cards reliably and randomly.
- the cards appearing successively in the dispensing hole are handed over according to the rules one by one, by the casino personnel, the dealer to the individual gamblers. Thus the presence of the person of the dealer is still necessary.
- the object of the invention is to provide an automatic apparatus for playing a card game, by means of which, as well as the traditional card games controlled by humans in a casino, the card games can be played but there is no need for the person of the dealer.
- a radial dealer arm is arranged under the plate of the gambling table and pivotably supported on a vertical shaft placed in the centre of curvature of the half-round gambling table, at the end of the dealer arm near the shaft a card magazine and a dealing device are arranged.
- On the dealer arm an endless belt-conveyor is supported having a horizontal carrying surface parallel to the plate of the gambling table extending between the card magazine and the outer end of the dealer arm.
- Each player's fields contain a card showing window, a display and a keyboard. The outline of the card showing windows is fitted to the sizes of the cards, which cards are of soft magnetic sheet.
- the belt- conveyor consists of two parallel belts in distance laterally, which distance is at least slightly larger than the width of the lifting plate of the card lifting device.
- each of the cards are provided with a unique card identifying mark and a card identifying sensor sensing the identifying mark of the respective cards.
- the identifying sensor reads the identifying mark of the respective card carried by the belt conveyor and being in the vicinity of the sensor to identify the respective cards.
- the output of the card identifying sensor is connected to the appropriate input port of the computer.
- the cards are arranged in the card magazine in a vertical stack, and the card magazine has a lifting device.
- the rotating drive at the outer end of the dealer arm is preferably arranged under the plate of the gambling table consists of a friction segment and a friction wheel engaged with the friction segment driven by an electric motor mounted to the dealer arm.
- the rotating drive at the outer end of the dealing arm arranged under the plate of the gambling table consists of a toothed segment and a toothed wheel engaged with the toothed segment driven by an electric motor mounted to the dealer arm.
- Fig. 1 is a schematic bottom view of the apparatus according to the invention
- Fig. 2 is a schematic side sectional view taken in the center line of the apparatus shown on the Fig. 1. Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention
- the bottom view of the apparatus according to the invention is shown on Fig. 1.
- the apparatus has a gambling table 2 having a half-round form, usual with card games, which is mounted on a frame 1.
- the gambling table 2 can be of transparent material, for example glass or any known transparent plastic material suitable for this purpose.
- an essentially vertical shaft 3 is arranged, which is secured to said frame 1 of the apparatus.
- a dealer arm 4 is pivotably mounted to the shaft 3, which is shown on the Fig 1 in a pivoted position in relation to the symmetry plane, but on Fig. 2 - for sake of better understanding - it is shown in the section plane.
- the dealer arm 4 is extending up to the rim of the half-round gambling table 2.
- the dealer arm 4 is coupled through a friction gear 46 driven by a drive 45 to the inner surface 47 of a flange mounted to the rim of the half-round gambling table 2.
- On the inner surface 47 of the flange there is a position sensor (not shown) for sensing the position of the dealer arm 4, by means of which the pivot rotation of the dealer arm 4 around the shaft 3 can be controlled to the desired position.
- a belt-conveyor 41 is mounted on the dealer arm 4 . Under the gambling table 2, on the upper side of the dealer arm 4, parallel thereto a horizontal section of the belt-conveyor is extending.
- the belt-conveyor 41 is guided at the ends of its horizontal section by two guide-pulleys 42, 43. In addition, the belt is looped around a driver drum 44, too.
- the belt-conveyor 41 consists of two parallel and displaced belt branches.
- a multiple of player's fields 21 are provided, which include a window 22 the size of which is matched to the size of the cards 62 used.
- a display 24 is fitted into the plate of the gambling table 2.
- a data input means, preferably a keyboard 23 belongs to each of the player's fields 21.
- card lifting devices 48 and 49 are arranged, which are placed to a radial distance in accordance with the distance between the window 22 of the player's field 21 and the window 26 of the dealer's field 25.
- edge 27 of the windows 22 and 26 being on the lower side of the plate of the table permanent magnets 27 are arranged.
- the holding plates 51 and 52 of the card lifting devices 48 and 49 respectively, are formed with electromagnets.
- the lateral distance between the two parallel branches of the belts of the belt-conveyor 41 is at least slightly larger than the width of the holding plates 51 and 52 of the card lifting devices 48 and 49, so the holding plates 51 and 52 can pass between the said parallel branches when lifting the individual 62 cards.
- a card handling unit 6 On the dealer arm 4, between the belt-conveyor 41 and the shaft 3 a card handling unit 6 is arranged, having a card magazine 61 in which cards 62 of soft magnetic material, for example of iron plate, are stacked in a staple, one above the other.
- the card magazine 61 can be moved vertically by a lifting device 64 mounted onto the dealer arm 4.
- a dealing device 65 which can be implemented as a pusher, is placed between the card magazine 61 and the shaft 3, which is mounted also to the dealer arm 4.
- the side walls of the card magazine 61 is open towards the dealing device 65 on the one hand and towards the belt-conveyor 41 on the other, so the dealing device 65 can push a card 62 from the card magazine 61 to the belt-conveyor 41 at a respective height.
- a card identifying sensor 50 is arranged on the side of the horizontal part of the belt-conveyor 41 .
- Each of the cards 62 are provided with an identifying mark.
- the drive 45 of the dealer arm 4, the driving drum 44 of the belt- conveyor 41 , the card lifting devices 48 and 49, their electromagnets, furthermore the card magazine drive 63, the dealing device 65, the displays 24, the keyboards 23 and the output of the card identification sensor 50 are connected to a computer 7, which controls the recording of the bets, the displaying of the results, the moves of the apparatus, the dealing of the cards and their withdraw, the evaluation and displaying the results in accordance with the rules of the game.
- the computer 7 directs the dealer arm 4 to pivotably move to each player's place in succession.
- the card magazine 61 moves vertically by means of the lifting device 64, stops at a random height of a card 62, for which the dealing device 65 pushes a card 62 onto the belt-conveyor 41 through the open side of the card magazine 61.
- the movement of the belt-conveyor 41 starts, driven by the driving drum 44 and forwards a card 62 to the window 22 of a player, whilst the card identifying sensor 50 reads the data from each card 62 passing in its vicinity and forwards these data to the computer 7.
- the card lifting device 48 lifts up the card 62 from the belt-conveyor 41.
- the lifted card 62 made for example of iron plate, is clamped to the window 22 by means of the permanent magnet 27 arranged on the lower edge of the window 22.
- the computer 7 evaluates the game on basis of the data received from the card identifying sensor 50 and from the data of the player's fields 21 and displays the results on the displays 24, records and stores the winnings for all players or subtracts the losses from the stored bets belong to each player.
- the cards 62 dealt will be picked up and collected by the apparatus in such a manner, that the card lifting devices 48 and 49 rise to the cards 62 clamped by the permanent magnets 27, the electromagnets of the card lifting devices 48 and 49 are activated and detach the cards 62 from the permanent magnets 27, overcoming their attraction force.
- the card lifting devices 48 and 49 will descend to their default positions and place the detached cards 62 onto the belt-conveyor 41 , hereupon the computer 7 controls electromagnets to switch off and the belt-conveyor 41 carries said card 62 to the card magazine 61. Having completed this process, the apparatus is ready to a new game.
- the dealing of the cards 62 in the given exemplary embodiment can be realized in three different methods in accordance with the program used in the computer 7.
- the drive of the card magazine 63 moves the lifting device 64 to a random position, so a random card 62 being in the card magazine 61 will appear in front of the dealing device 65.
- the lifting device 64 moves , to a random position for receiving a card 62, so each of the cards 62 get in a random position in the card magazine 63.
- the former two variants are used simultaneously, that is the card magazine 63 is moved randomly both when dealing and during collecting the cards 62.
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Priority Applications (5)
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EP03730383A EP1620187B1 (en) | 2003-04-26 | 2003-04-26 | Apparatus for playing game of cards |
PCT/HU2003/000033 WO2004096389A1 (en) | 2003-04-26 | 2003-04-26 | Apparatus for playing game of cards |
US10/554,244 US20070090595A1 (en) | 2003-04-26 | 2003-04-26 | Apparatus for playing game of cards |
DE60310274T DE60310274D1 (en) | 2003-04-26 | 2003-04-26 | DEVICE FOR CARD PLAYING |
AU2003241063A AU2003241063A1 (en) | 2003-04-26 | 2003-04-26 | Apparatus for playing game of cards |
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