US 2011/0217074 A1 · COLOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

Abstract

A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein a plurality of cartridges is detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus, includes a cartridge supporting member movable between an inside position which is inside the main assembly and an outside position which is outside the main assembly, supporting the cartridges, wherein the cartridges are mounted to and dismounted from the cartridge supporting member placed in the outside position; an opening which is provided in the main assembly and through which the cartridge supporting member is passed when the cartridge supporting member moves between the inside position and the outside position; a receiving member for receiving developed images from photosensitive members provided on the cartridge supporting member in the state that cartridge supporting member is placed in the inside position, the receiving member is rotatable along below the photosensitive members; a transfer member for transferring the developed images transferred on the receiving member onto a recording material at a transfer position; a fixing member for fixing the developed images transferred onto the recording material on the recording material; and a feeding path for feeding the recording material to a removing position by way of the transfer position, the inside of the opening and the fixing member from a stacking portion for stacking the recording material, wherein the cartridge supporting member is movable between the inside position and the outside position intersecting the feeding path.

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Dependent claims

A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, wherein a plurality of cartridges are detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus, comprising:

a cartridge supporting member for supporting said cartridges, movable between an inside position which is inside said main assembly of the apparatus and an outside position which is outside said main assembly of the apparatus, wherein said cartridges are mounted to and dismounted from said cartridge supporting member when said cartridge supporting member is at the outside position;
an opening which is provided in said main assembly of the apparatus and through which said cartridge supporting member passes when said cartridge supporting member moves between the inside position and the outside position;
a receiving member for receiving developed images from electrophotographic photosensitive members provided on said cartridge supporting member when said cartridge supporting member is at the inside position, wherein said receiving member is rotatable underneath electrophotographic photosensitive members;
a transfer member for transferring the developed images transferred on said receiving member onto a recording material at a transfer position;
a fixing member for fixing, on the recording material, the developed images transferred onto the recording material;
and
a feeding path for feeding the recording material to a removing position by way of:
(1) the transfer position, (2) the inside of said opening, and (3) said fixing member from a stacking portion for stacking the recording material,
wherein said cartridge supporting member is movable along a path between the inside position and the outside position which intersects said feeding path.

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a cartridge supporting member for supporting said cartridges, movable between an inside position which is inside said main assembly of the apparatus and an outside position which is outside said main assembly of the apparatus, wherein said cartridges are mounted to and dismounted from said cartridge supporting member when said cartridge supporting member is at the outside position;
an opening which is provided in said main assembly of the apparatus and through which said cartridge supporting member passes when said cartridge supporting member moves between the inside position and the outside position;
a transfer member provided correspondingly to each of a plurality of electrophotographic photosensitive members provided on said cartridge supporting member when said cartridge supporting member is at the inside position, each of said transfer members being effective to transfer a developed image from the corresponding electrophotographic photosensitive member onto the recording material;
a fixing member for fixing, on the recording material, the developed images transferred onto the recording material;
a feeding path for feeding the recording material to a removing position by way of:
(1) a portion between said electrophotographic photosensitive members, (2) said transfer member, and (3) said fixing member from a stacking portion for stacking the recording material;
and
nipping means nipping the recording material jammed between said electrophotographic photosensitive member and said transfer member and between said electrophotographic photosensitive member and said fixing member, said nipping means being disposed in an upstream side with respect to a drawing direction in which said cartridge supporting member is moved from the inside position to the outside position,
wherein when said cartridge supporting member is moved in the drawing direction which crosses with said feeding path, the jammed recording material is pulled toward said opening in the state that said nipping means nips the jammed recording material.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Color electrophotographic image forming apparatus

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Color electrophotographic image forming apparatus

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