Patent ID: 6964328

Claim:
An improved rotary coin mechanism for the receipt of a payment made with at least one coin, the coin mechanism of the type comprising: a stack of at least one coin disc within a coin mechanism casing, each coin disc having at least one open coin slot intended to receive a coin of a specific diameter, the stack connected to the coin mechanism in a manner adapted for at least 360 degree rotation in one direction when the each coin slot requiring a coin is filled with a coin of the required size such that each rotating coin prevents the operation of a coin detector mechanism from stopping the forward rotation of that coin disc, wherein the improvement comprises: adding at least one tab to each coin disc near the trailing edge of at least one coin slot, the tab extending radially outward to extend the coin disc such that rotation of the tab on the trailing side of each coin slot through an opening in the leading edge of the casing prevents the maintained presence of a theft tool of sufficient size to interfere with the operation of the coin detector mechanism such that the theft tool cannot maintain contact with the coin detector mechanism for a sufficient range of rotation for the coin slot lacking a required coin of a specific diameter to be rotated past the coin detector mechanism.