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US 5,491,542 AGranted
Developer supplying container and assembling method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiaki Nagashima, Kunihiko Kitayama, Kiyoshi Oyama
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Abstract
A developer supply container includes a developer containing portion having an opening for supplying the developer therefrom; a shutter for closing the opening; a shutter support for supporting the shutter for movement between a closing position where the shutter closes the opening and an opening position where the shutter is retracted from the closing position to open the opening; and a seal mounted on such a side of the shutter as is faced to the opening.
Claims16
A developer supply container comprising:
- a developer containing portion having an opening for supplying a developer therefrom;
- shutter means for closing and opening the opening;
- and
- a guiding member for defining the opening and for guiding opening and closing motion of said shutter means,
- wherein said shutter means has a shutter and an elastic seal provided on said shutter and slidable on said guiding member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.