Developer supply container and developer supplying system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiaki Nagashima, Katsuya Murakami, Ayatomo Okino
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Abstract
A developer supply container detachably mountable to a developer receiving apparatus and settable in a developer receiving apparatus by a setting operation including at least a rotation toward a setting position, includes a containing portion for containing the developer; a rotatable discharging member for discharging the developer out of said containing portion; drive transmitting means, engageable with a driving gear provided in said developer receiving apparatus and rotatable in a direction opposite the setting direction, for transmitting a rotating force from said driving gear to said discharging member.
Claims5
A toner supply container comprising:
- a substantial cylindrical container configured to contain toner;
- an opening provided at a circumferential peripheral portion of said cylindrical container and configured to permit discharge of the toner in said cylindrical container;
- a toner feeder provided in said cylindrical container and configured to feed the toner toward said opening by rotation of said toner feeder relative to said cylindrical container;
- a stepped gear provided on a longitudinal end surface of said cylindrical container, said stepped gear including:
- a large diameter gear portion;
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- a small diameter gear portion having a diameter smaller than a diameter of said large diameter gear portion;
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- a co-axial gear provided co-axially with an axis of said toner feeder on the longitudinal end surface of said cylindrical container and configured to engage with said small diameter gear portion, said co-axial gear having a diameter larger than a diameter of said large diameter gear portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.