Recording material cooling device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichi TANAKA, Keita KONDO, Yuki INOUE, Shingo KATANO
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Abstract
A recording material cooling device includes a belt; a cooling member, a first roller, a second roller, an urging member for urging a bearing portion so that the second roller moves toward an inner peripheral surface of the belt, a holding member, for holding the urging member, and a moving member for moving the holding member between a first position for enabling rotation of the belt by stretching said belt by the first roller and the second roller and a second position for facilitating exchange of the belt.
Claims9
A recording material cooling device for cooling a recording material passed through a fixing device for fixing a toner image on the recording material by heating, said recording material cooling device comprising:
- a belt;
- a cooling member configured to cool said belt in contact with an inner peripheral surface of said belt;
- a first roller provided on the inner peripheral surface of said belt;
- a second roller rotatably supported by a bearing portion and configured to stretch said belt in cooperation with said first roller;
- an urging member configured to urge said bearing portion so that said second roller moves toward the inner peripheral surface of said belt;
- a holding member configured to hold said urging member;
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- a moving member configured to move said holding member between a first position for enabling rotation of said belt by stretching said belt by said first roller and said second roller and a second position for facilitating exchange of said belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.