Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1901 — FOR SHUFFLING CARDS. [ARTICLE]

FOR SHUFFLING CARDS.

A card shuffling machine has been, invented bw R. F. Bellows of Cleveland. It should make business poor for crooked card players. The device is complicated, yet simple in its action. The shuffling machine is a metal' box about 12 inches high, 3 inches wide and 6 inches from front to back. All the mechanism is inside. The cards are dropped in at the top and rest on a tiny shelf. Below this there are five small fingers, one on each of five thin steel blades extending across the full width of the machine. When a shutter on the front is dropped, the shelf falls and the cards drop upon the blades and are separated into five little irregular bunches by the fingers. The blades separate, and one by one cards drop from the various bunches into a receptacle at the bottom, the drop being regulated by a clockwork mechanism. There is now way of telling where any particular card will be found in the pack after they are shuffled. The same card, placed on the top of the pack, will rarely be found twice in the same place after the shuffle.—Chicago Inter Ocean.