Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Honda

Hiroaki Ura

Takashi Tamura

Minoru Kawano

Takayoshi Hashimoto

Atsuo Ohmura

Masayuki Enomoto

Hisao Sato

Mitsuyoshi Nagashita

Junkichi Kasahara

A recording apparatus wherein a bottom of a body of the apparatus having conveyor device for conveying recording paper is freely opened and closed to open the conveyor device when the body is lifted up. A body frame composed of a front panel, a rear panel and a bottom plate of the recording apparatus is molded by a resin as a unit.

Recording apparatus

An electrostatic recording apparatus wherein a fixing device can be pulled out from a predetermined operating position, a transfer portion is separated from an image retainer and the pressure contact between a fixing roller and a press roller is released in operative connection with the operation of pulling out the fixing device.

Electrostatic recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus comprises an automatic paper feeder for feeding recording paper one after another from a stack of paper; a manual paper feeder for feeding recording paper manually; and a main body which is formed of an upper frame coupled to a lower frame, the upper and lower frames being separable relative to each other. At least a part of the automatic paper feeder and at least a part of the manual paper feeder are arranged in one unit frame which is coupled to the main body. One end of the unit frame is displaceably arranged relative to the main body when the upper and lower frame are relatively separated.

Image recording apparatus with separable upper and lower sections and

In a copying apparatus equipped with a sorter having a bin unit slidably mounted on the main frame and driven up and down by a vertically supported feed screw, heavy loading of the bin with multiple copies throws the same off balance resulting in strain on the feed screw unit and producing unwanted vibrations. By connecting the bin to the feed screw through an elastically supported nut and positively slidably guiding the movement of the nut in a vertical guide parallel to the feed screw, unwanted vibrations and strains on the feed screw connection are avoided.

Copying apparatus with slidably attached sorter bin

A cleaning apparatus for removable insertion in an electrophotographic copying machine includes an exhaust cylinder having an opening at an end portion thereof and a conveyor in the cylinder operable for carrying particulate developer through the cylinder to the opening thereof. A shutter having a second opening is movable with respect to the cylinder between a first position in which the shutter closes the cylinder opening and a second position in which the openings of the shutter and cylinder are aligned, a bias spring being effective to normally maintain the shutter in its first position. When the apparatus is inserted in a copying machine, the cylinder end portion is inserted into a hopper for receiving particulate developer, causing the shutter to move to its second position in which the openings are aligned to permit movement of developer into the hopper from the exhaust cylinder. Subsequent removal of the cleaning apparatus effects automatic closure of the cylinder opening to prevent leakage of developer therethrough.

Cleaning apparatus for copying or the like

The present invention concerns a thin plate disposed in contact with the surface of a photosensitive drum of a copying machine for guiding toner scraped from the drum surface into a recovery area of the machine; more particularly, it provides for automatic disengagement of the thin plate from its normal contact with the drum surface whenever the drum is not fully engaged within the machine, as during removal and subsequent return for jam clearing or maintenance operations, so as to prevent inadvertent damage to the drum or to the thin plate in the course thereof.

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Hachioji, Japan

Hiroyuki Honda