Coin telephone box with anti-stuffing coin return chute

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Apparatus is provided in a coin operated telephone box for inhibiting the stuffing of the coin return chute of the box with foreign materials. Coin operated telephone boxes are provided internally with a coin return chute coin retrieval, cavity below the coin discharge end of the coin return chute and a coin return door in the front wall of the box. The return door is pivoted at its upper edge portion for swing movement inwardly toward the coin discharge end of the return chute and provides finger access to the coin retrieval cavity for the removal of coins from the box. To inhibit stuffing of the coin return chute there is provided a first gate plate affixed to and carried by the return …