Toner replenishing container and toner replenishing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTatsuya Goto, Fumio Tazawa
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Abstract
A toner replenishing container which is detachably mountable to a main assembly of a toner replenishing apparatus, the toner replenishing container includes a container body, having an opening for supplying toner into the main assembly, for containing toner; an opening and closing member, slidable in a first direction, for opening and closing the opening; wherein the opening and closing member is is slidable relative to the main assembly in a second direction which is different from the first direction, and when the opening and closing member is at a closing position for closing the opening, the opening and closing member is prevented from sliding in the first direction before sliding in the second direction.
Claims28
A toner replenishing container which is detachably mountable to a main assembly of a toner replenishing apparatus, said toner replenishing container comprising:
- a container body, having an opening for supplying toner into said main assembly, for containing toner;
- an opening and closing member, slidable relative to said container body for opening and closing the opening, wherein said opening and closing member is slidable in a first direction to open the opening;
- wherein said opening and closing member is slidable relative to said container body in a second direction, crossing said first direction and when said opening and closing member is at a closing position for closing the opening, said opening and closing member is prevented from sliding in the first direction before sliding in the second direction.
A toner replenishing apparatus comprising:
- a toner replenishing container, which is detachably mountable to a main assembly of said toner replenishing apparatus, said toner replenishing container including:
- a container body, having an opening for supplying toner into said main assembly, for containing toner;
- an opening and closing member, slidable relative to said container body for opening the opening, wherein said opening and closing member is slidable in a first direction to open the opening;
- wherein said opening and closing member is slidable relative to said container body in a second direction crossing said first direction, and when said opening and closing member is at a closing position for closing the opening, said opening and closing member is prevented from sliding in the first direction before sliding in the second direction;
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- said toner replenishing apparatus further comprising:
- an abutment for abutting said opening and closing member such that said opening and closing member is slidable in the second direction, when said container is mounted to the main assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.