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Anti-fraud coin chute device

  • US 5,906,260 A
  • Filed: 07/03/1997
  • Issued: 05/25/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/03/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A coin chute apparatus having, in combination, a coin chute intended to receive a coin deposited in a coin slot, said chute defining a serpentine path for said coin, and door forming a part of said chute, said door being leverable to release a deposited coin from said chute;

  • the improvement comprising;

    a string cutter including a pair of scissor blades forming jaws adapted to cut a string attached to a coin deposited in said slot, anda guide positioned in said path, said guide forming a gap with said door when closed, said gap being thinner than the thinnest coin allowed to be used with said coin chute but wide enough to admit said string;

    said guide being adapted to direct said string into said gap to actuate said cutter jaws when said string is pulled in a direction opposite to that in which the coin is deposited.

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