Packaging member for cleaning blades

A packaging member for cleaning blades, each having a blade body, which is brought into slide contact with a surface of a latent image carrier, and a holder part for supporting a non-slide-contact portion of the blade body, the packaging member comprising:

• at least a set of packaging member main bodies for supporting opposite end portions of the holder parts of the cleaning blades,
• the packaging member being characterized in that
• a first packaging member main body of the set of packaging member main bodies has a plurality of first support parts disposed at predetermined intervals along a longitudinal direction thereof and adapted to support respective one end portions of the holder parts, and
• a second packaging member main body of the set of packaging member main bodies has a plurality of second support parts disposed at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction thereof and adapted to support respective other end portions of the holder parts,
• wherein each of the first packaging member main body and the second packaging member main body has engagement portions at respective longitudinal opposite end portions for allowing stacking in the vertical direction, and each of the engagement portions has an engagement protrusion formed on an upper surface thereof and has an engagement recess formed in a lower surface thereof for engagement with the engagement protrusion, and
• each of the first packaging member main body and the second packaging member main body has recesses formed in a lower surface thereof for avoiding interference with the holder parts of the cleaning blades supported by the first support parts and the second support parts.