Cleaning apparatus and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshihiko KUDO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a high toner containing efficiency of a waste toner-collecting container is provided. Piled toner is broken by an vibrating imparting operation and at the same time, a toner feeding member such as a feeding screw disposed inside the toner-collecting container is rotated by changing a reciprocating operation by the vibrating impartment to a rotational operation in a direction. As a result, the piled toner which cannot be completely broken by the vibrating imparting operation is broken and fed, so that driving noise is reduced and the toner containing efficiency is improved.
Claims10
1-11. (canceled)
A cleaning apparatus comprising:
- a cleaning member for removing toner from an image bearing member;
- a collecting container for collecting toner removed by said cleaning member;
- a feeding member, provided in said collecting container, for feeding toner collected in said collecting container;
- and
- a swinging mechanism, including a swingable member swingably supported, for swinging said collecting container by swinging said swingable member,
- wherein said swinging mechanism is driven to drive said feeding member.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing member;
- image forming means for forming an image borne on said image bearing member on a recording material;
- a cleaning member for removing toner from said image bearing member;
- a collecting container for collecting toner removed by said cleaning member;
- a feeding member, provided in said collecting container, for feeding toner collected in said collecting container;
- and
- a swinging mechanism, including a swingable member swingably supported, for swinging said collecting container by swinging said swingable member,
- wherein said swinging mechanism is driven to drive said feeding member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.