Toner container and toner supply device using the same
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuya Koyama
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Abstract
A toner bottle that is composed of a main body having a bottle-side toner discharge port for discharging toner and a bottle holder that encloses the bottle-side toner discharge port and rotatably holds the main part and is constructed such that the main part is rotated in its peripheral direction to thereby discharge the toner charged in it out of the bottle. The toner bottle is characterized in that the bottle holder has a guide portion that is able to position and hold the main part at a position with respect to its rotational direction, and the main part has a hooking piece that is able to position and hold itself with respect to the direction of rotation by means of the guide portion.
Claims20
A toner container comprising:
- a toner container body having a toner storing portion filled with toner, a container-side toner discharge port for discharging toner held in the toner storing portion, and an engagement portion;
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- a toner container holder that encloses the container-side toner discharge port and holds the toner container body in a rotatable manner, wherein the toner container body is rotated in a peripheral direction thereof to discharge the toner charged in the toner storing portion out of the container, characterized in that the toner container holder has an engaging structure that is able to selectively engage the engagement portion of the toner container body to prevent relative rotation between the toner container body and the toner container holder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.