Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuhiko Fuse, Yuji Nakayashiki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion including a photosensitive member and a developing portion, a sheet accommodating portion, a sheet feeding portion, and a first frame. The first frame includes an upper space supporting the image forming portion, and a lower space under the upper space. A second frame is mountable to a lower portion of said first frame. The accommodating portion and the feeding portion are replaceable with a supply container containing toner to be supplied to a developing portion of the image forming portion, in which the second frame supports the accommodating portion and the feeding portion.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a first frame configured to support an image forming portion including a photosensitive member and a developing portion configured to develop, with toner, an electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive member, the image forming portion being configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a scanner configured to scan the photosensitive member;
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- a second frame mounted to the first frame such that the second frame is located below the first frame, the second frame being provided with (i) a supporting member configured to support a supply container containing toner such that the supply container is located below the scanner, (ii) a toner feeding unit configured to feed the toner from the supply container to the developing portion, (iii) an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the sheet, and (iv) a feeding portion configured to feed the sheet accommodated in the accommodating portion,
- wherein the first frame is configured to support the image forming portion such that the photosensitive member is located above the scanner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.