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ROBOT CARD DEALER

SHUFFLING BY MACHINE. A new terror is now added to card playing. Professors L. F. Woodruff and E. L. Rose, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have jointly invented an electrical device for shuffling and dealing cards at bridge. It is claimed that in four seconds their invention will shuffle and deal four hands to the accompaniment of a noise like a sewing machine. The deck is placed in a compartment at the top of a cabinet about the size of a shoe box. A lever is moved and an arm plucks the bottom card and throws it towards the four compartments at the bottom. The card may hit one of three deflectors en route to send it towards different compartments. The fingers are controlled by two reTolving cams, each with 52 depressions and bumps, which cause the fingers to go through a cycle of positions almost at random. The cams, when the machine is started, may be in any one of 2704 positions.

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 12

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ROBOT CARD DEALER Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 12

ROBOT CARD DEALER Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 12