Dispenser bottle including a conduit partition assembly, and an image forming device including the same

An image forming device comprising a dispenser bottle arranged to dispense toner particles, the dispenser bottle including a conduit partition assembly, the dispenser bottle having a dispenser bottle top end and an opposite dispenser bottle bottom end and comprising a tapered top dispenser portion and a cylindrical bottom container portion, the dispenser portion forming a dispenser mouth at the dispenser bottle top end, the container portion defining a container hollow, the dispenser portion having a tapered top dispenser portion inner wall that defines a dispenser conduit whose inner diameter becomes increasingly narrower along the dispenser portion from the container hollow towards the dispenser mouth;

• the dispenser conduit partition assembly having a shaft, the shaft having a shaft top end protruding from the dispenser mouth, an elongated shaft body defining a shaft axial and an opposite shaft bottom end, the shaft bottom end having a multiplicity (N) of substantially identical partition members attached thereto;
• the shaft bottom end with the attached multiple partition members disposed in the dispenser conduit;
• each partition member comprised of a sheet of flexible elastic material of a small thickness, the partition member forming two opposing generally flat and smooth outer surfaces, each outer surface defining a perimeter of four partition member edges, the four partition member edges including a generally straight partition member shaft-attaching edge and an opposite partition member outer edge, the partition member shaft-attaching edge fixed to the shaft body along the shaft axial near the shaft bottom end, the multiple partition members extending outwardly away from the shaft axial;
• the partition member outer edge of each partition member having a tapered profile shape that is generally congruent with the tapered shape of the tapered top dispenser portion inner wall so that urging the conduit partition assembly shaft body towards the dispenser mouth causes the partition member tapered-profile shaped outer edge of each partition member to move closer to and substantially contact the tapered top dispenser portion inner wall, the multiplicity (N) of partition members partitioning the dispenser conduit to thereby form a corresponding multiplicity (N) of dispenser component conduits, so that when the dispenser bottle cylindrical bottom container portion is inverted in a generally vertical position, a corresponding multiplicity (N) of toner particle discharge flows are dispensed from the dispenser mouth, wherein the dispenser bottle and the included conduit partition assembly are constructed and arranged so that the conduit partition assembly shaft body is movable towards the dispenser mouth.