Cleaner including a transport member configured to transport developer

A cleaner comprising:

• a cleaning blade configured to remove a developer from a surface of an image carrier;
• an accommodating container configured to accommodate the removed developer;
• and
• a transport member configured to transport the developer removed by the cleaning blade to the accommodating container,
• wherein the transport member comprises;
• a shaft extending in a direction intersecting a transport direction of the developer;
• a first arm rotatably supported by the shaft, and
• a second arm that is rotatably supported by the first arm at a position spaced from the shaft and that extends toward the cleaning blade;
• wherein the transport member is configured such that, when the shaft rotates, a trajectory of an end, at a cleaning blade side, of the second arm is an ellipse elongated along the transport direction of the developer on the cleaning blade, and
• wherein the cleaner further comprises:
• a first projection disposed between the shaft and a connector assembly that rotatably supports the second arm in the first arm, the first projection being supported by a first groove provide on a main body of the cleaner;
• and
• a second projection disposed between the connector assembly and an end, at a cleaning blade side, in the second arm, the second projection being supported by a second groove provided on the main body of the cleaner.