Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazushi Suzuki, Hiroshi Kawamura, Kei Sawanaka, Yoshimi Suzuki, Chikara Imaizumi
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Abstract
A container is detachably mountable on an apparatus body in a mounting-detaching direction that is along the same direction as a mounting-detaching direction of a transfer unit and that is in the reverse direction of the mounting-detaching direction of the transfer unit. When the transfer unit and the container are mounted on the apparatus body, a belt, a cleaning device, and the container are arranged in that order in a transport direction of the belt. A discharge portion is provided, the discharge portion extending in the mounting-detaching direction of the container, for discharging the toner removed by the cleaning device to the container.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image bearing member that bears a toner image;
- a transfer unit including a belt that transports the toner image on the image bearing member, and a cleaning device that removes a toner adhering to the belt, the transfer unit being detachably mountable on an apparatus body in a transport direction of the belt;
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- a container that houses the toner removed by the cleaning device,
- wherein the container is detachably mountable on the apparatus body in a mounting-detaching direction that is along the same direction as a mounting-detaching direction of the transfer unit and that is in the reverse direction of the mounting-detaching direction of the transfer unit,
- wherein, when the transfer unit and the container are mounted on the apparatus body, the belt, the cleaning device, and the container are arranged in that order in the transport direction of the belt, and
- wherein a discharge portion is provided, the discharge portion extending in the mounting-detaching direction of the container, for discharging the toner removed by the cleaning device to the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.