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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 29, 1996
Joseph L Levasseur, St. Louis County, MO (US);
Coin Acceptors, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A mechanism for mounting on a vending control device used for paying back change to a customer for a deposit in excess of the amount of a selected vend including a coin storage device located at a higher elevation than the payback coin tube, the coin storage device when energized releasing one or more coins from the bottom end thereof when it is determined that the number of coins available in the payback coin tube is less than the amount needed for a payback, and a passageway communicating the lower end of the coin storage device with the upper end of the payback coin tube for guiding coins released from the coin storage device to move into the payback coin tube.