Image Forming Apparatus Provided With Cartridge For Accommodating Waste Toner Therein
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShougo Sato, Atsushi Fukui, Isao Fukuchi
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AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShougo Sato, Atsushi Fukui, Isao Fukuchi
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An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge-supporting body, a belt, a belt cleaning unit, a waste toner cartridge, and a collective conveying unit. The cartridge-supporting unit supports a plurality of process cartridges. Each process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a drum-cleaning unit for collecting waste toner on the photosensitive drum. The belt confronts the plurality of process cartridges when the cartridge-supporting body is in an internal position. The belt cleaning unit collects waste toner on the belt. The waste toner cartridge accommodates both waste toner collected from the plurality of photosensitive drums by the plurality of drum-cleaning units and waste toner collected from the belt by the belt cleaning unit. The collective conveying unit aggregates waste toner collected from the plurality of photosensitive drums by the plurality of drum-cleaning units and conveys collectively the aggregated waste toner to the waste toner cartridge.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
An image forming apparatus comprising:
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