Fixing device
AssigneeKonishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorMichio Mogi
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Abstract
A fixing device including a fixing roller and a pressure member rotatable in pressure-contact with said fixing roller, out of which at least one is provided with a heater and is capable of fixing an image-recorded material bearing thereon, toner is passed through between said fixing roller and said pressure member; said fixing device characterized in that at least one of said heaters is made in the bar-like form and served as a supporting shaft for rotating said fixing roller or said pressure member and can further be taken out and put in.
Claims15
A fixing device comprising a fixing roller, a rotatable pressure member in pressure contact with said fixing roller, at least one of said roller and said member having a primary heater adapted to heat an image-recording material which passes between said roller and said member, said primary heater being substantially bar-shaped and having at least its ends of circular cross-section, said ends mounted in bearings, said bearings disposed between said heater and said roller or said member, said heater being detachable from and rotatably supporting said roller or said member.
A fixing device comprising a fixing roller having a first heater, a rotatable pressure roller in pressure contact with said fixing roller, a second heater inserted through said pressure roller, said second heater being detachable from and incorporated in a receiving member, said second heater and said receiving member being fixed, said receiving member being held by a swingable lever, a bearing between said second heater and said pressure roller and between said receiving member and said pressure roller, said receiving member rotatably supporting said pressure roller through said bearing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.