Toner supply container and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYusuke Yamada, Yutaka Ban, Fumio Tazawa, Hironori Minagawa
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Abstract
A toner supply container detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, includes a main body for accommodating toner; an opening for permitting discharge of the toner from the main body; a rotatable feeding member, provided in the main body, for feeding the toner by rotation thereof; wherein the feeding member including a lift portion for lifting the toner in the main body, a guiding portion for guiding the toner lifted by the collecting portion downwardly toward the opening, and a falling portion for letting the toner lifted by the lifting portion fall without feeding it toward the opening with rotation of the feeding member.
Claims2
A toner supply container detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, said toner supply container comprising:
- a rotatable container body for containing toner, said container body being provided at one longitudinal end portion with an opening portion for permitting discharge of the toner;
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- a feeding member, provided for integral rotation which said container body, for feeding the toner in said container body toward said opening portion,
- wherein said feeding member includes a plate-like member extending in a longitudinal direction of said container body, and said plate-like member is provided with projections which are effective to guide the toner with rotation of said container body, and
- wherein one of said plurality of projections is close to or contiguous with said opening portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.