Toner cartridge
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakaho WATANABE, Tadashi SUGIYAMA
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Abstract
A toner cartridge for storing toner to be supplied to an image forming apparatus includes a container in which the toner is stored, extending in a longitudinal direction, and including two walls at ends thereof in the longitudinal direction, one of the walls having a first outlet, a paddle configured to rotate between the walls of the container to stir the toner and removable from the container through the first outlet, and a first lid covering the first outlet and having a first bearing hole through which an end of the paddle is rotatably held.
Claims20
A toner cartridge for storing toner to be supplied to an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a container in which the toner is stored, extending in a longitudinal direction, and including two walls at ends thereof in the longitudinal direction, one of the walls having a first outlet;
- a paddle configured to rotate between the walls of the container to stir the toner and removable from the container through the first outlet;
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- a first lid covering the first outlet and having a first bearing hole through which an end of the paddle is rotatably held.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image of toner on a belt;
- a fixing device configured to fix on a sheet the image transferred through the belt;
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- a toner cartridge including:
- a container in which the toner is stored, extending in a longitudinal direction, and including two walls at ends thereof in the longitudinal direction, one of the walls having a first outlet,
- a paddle configured to rotate between the walls of the container to stir the toner and removable from the container through the first outlet, and
- a first lid covering the first outlet and having a first bearing hole through which an end of the paddle is rotatably held.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.