Toner container and image forming apparatus

A toner container that is detachably attached to a main body of an image forming apparatus such that a longitudinal direction of the toner container is parallel to a horizontal direction, the toner container comprising:

• a cylindrical container body that has an opening on one end thereof in the longitudinal direction, and is configured to convey toner contained therein toward the opening;
• a cap portion into which the opening of the container body is inserted, and which includes a toner outlet at a bottom portion thereof for discharging toner, which has been discharged from the opening of the container body, to the outside of the toner container in a vertically downward direction;
• and
• a shutter member that is held on the bottom portion of the cap portion, and moves to open and close the toner outlet,
• wherein the shutter member includes:
• a shutter main unit that engages a rail portion arranged on the cap portion and moves along the rail portion to thereby open and close the toner outlet, and
• a shutter deforming unit that is integrally formed with the shutter main unit and is elastically deformed by using a connection position with the shutter main unit as a base point,
• wherein the cap portion includes a containing portion for holding and containing therein the shutter deforming unit after the toner outlet is open by the shutter member, and
• wherein the shutter deforming unit includes a stopper which contacts a contact portion of the cap portion, and when the shutter member closes the toner outlet, the stopper is exposed to an outside of the cap portion.