Cleaning apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHisakazu Okubo
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Abstract
A cleaning apparatus that cleans an image bearing member on which a toner image is formed, includes first and second brushes which are rotatable and remove toner by abutment against the image bearing member, wherein the first and second brushes rotate in counter directions, a container for containing the toner removed by the first brush and the second brush, and a rubbing member that rubs both of the first brush and the second brush.
Claims42
A cleaning apparatus that cleans an image bearing member on which a toner image is formed, comprising:
- first and second brushes which are rotatable and remove toner by abutment against the image bearing member,
- wherein said first and second brushes rotate in counter directions;
- containing means for containing the toner removed by said first brush and said second brush;
- and
- a rubbing member that rubs both of said first brush and said second brush.
A cleaning apparatus that cleans a recording material bearing member that bears and conveys a recording material for transferring a toner image on an image bearing member onto a the recording material, said cleaning apparatus, comprising:
- first and second brushes which are rotatable and remove toner by abutment against said recording material bearing member,
- wherein said first and second brushes rotate in counter directions;
- containing means for containing the toner removed by said first brush and said second brush;
- and
- a rubbing member that rubs both of said first brush and said second brush.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image bearing member for bearing a toner image,
- wherein the toner image on said image bearing member is transferred onto a transfer medium;
- first and second brushes which are rotatable and remove toner by abutment against said image bearing member,
- wherein said first and second brushes rotate in counter directions;
- containing means for containing the toner removed by said first brush and said second brush;
- and
- a rubbing member that rubs both of said first brush and said second brush.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image bearing member for bearing a toner image;
- a recording material bearing member that bears a recording material,
- wherein the toner image on said image bearing member is transferred onto the recording material born by said recording material bearing member;
- first and second brushes which are rotatable and remove toner by abutment against the recording material bearing member,
- wherein said first and second brushes rotate in counter directions;
- containing means for containing the toner removed by said first brush and said second brush;
- and
- a rubbing member that rubs both of said first brush and said second brush.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.