Patent ID: 6862406

Claim:
A loyalty camera system mechanism, comprising: a loyalty camera, including: a camera body; an outer casing surrounding said camera body; a film advance wheel rotatably attached to said camera body, said film advance wheel including a toothed gear portion and a spindle portion; an anti-reversal pawl mounted to said camera body, said anti reversal pawl; a spring in communication with said anti-reversal pawl to spring bias said anti-reversal pawl into engagement with said toothed gear portion, permitting only unidirectional rotation of said film advance wheel to advance film when said anti-reversal pawl is engaged therewith, a lever arm mounted to said camera body, said lever arm biased into contact with a portion of said anti reversal pawl, said lever arm being bounded on one side by a circumferential surface initially in contact with said spindle portion when said anti-reversal pawl is engaged with said toothed gear portion; a winding tool including a film advance wheel engaging portion which engages said film advance wheel to push said lever arm out of contact with said spindle and bias said anti-reversal pawl out of engagement with said toothed gear portion, permitting rotation of said film advance wheel in both directions.