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US 10,474,061 B2Granted
Reduced capacity toner cartridge for an electrophotographic image forming device having an isolated toner volume surrounding an auger of the toner cartridge
AssigneeLexmark International, Inc.
InventorsMarc Frazier Baker, Kyle Benjamin Freels, Mark William Johnson
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Abstract
A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a toner reservoir. An outlet is positioned on the housing for exiting toner from the toner cartridge. An insert is selectably installable in the toner reservoir. The insert separates a first portion of the toner reservoir that is in fluid communication with the outlet from a remainder of the toner reservoir when the insert is installed in the toner reservoir providing a reduced capacity toner reservoir in the first portion of the toner reservoir.
Claims5
A toner cartridge, comprising:
- a housing having a toner reservoir;
- an outlet on the housing for exiting toner from the toner cartridge;
- a rotatable auger operative to deliver toner from the toner reservoir to the outlet;
- and
- a divider that isolates a volume of the toner reservoir surrounding the auger that is in fluid communication with the outlet from a remainder of the toner reservoir such that the divider forms a reduced capacity toner reservoir surrounding the auger,
- wherein the divider is wrapped under the auger along a length of the auger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.