Replenishing developer housing container and image forming apparatus

A replenishing developer housing container, comprising:

• a container body mountable on a replenishing developer conveying device and housing a replenishing developer to be supplied into the replenishing developer conveying device;
• a conveying portion provided in the container body and configured to convey the replenishing developer from one end of the container body in a longer direction thereof to the other end thereof at which a container opening portion is provided;
• a pipe receiving port provided at the container opening portion and capable of receiving a conveying pipe fixed to the replenishing developer conveying device;
• and
• an uplifting portion configured to uplift the replenishing developer conveyed by the conveying portion from a lower side of the container body to an upper side thereof and move the replenishing developer into a replenishing developer receiving port of the conveying pipe,
• wherein the replenishing developer comprises a toner and a carrier,
• wherein the container body comprises a protruding portion protruding from a container body interior side of the container opening portion toward the one end,
• wherein the uplifting portion comprises a rising portion rising from an internal wall surface of the container body toward the protruding portion,
• wherein the rising portion comprises a curving portion curving so as to conform to the protruding portion,
• wherein the protruding portion is provided such that when the replenishing developer housing container is mounted on the replenishing developer conveying device, the protruding portion is present between the curving portion and the replenishing developer receiving port of the conveying pipe being inserted.