Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kotaro Koide

Seiji Terazawa

Masashi Hasegawa

Tetsuya Kusano

Atsushi Inoue

Hideo Ichikawa

Makoto Kawaguchi

Toshihide Tomotaka

Masaki Serizawa

Tomokazu Saitoh

A stretch label attaching device for attaching a stretch label on a good, including an adapter supporting the label from the inside thereof and has an opening into which the good is inserted; an adapter support member configured to support a lower portion of the adapter and has an opening into which the good is inserted; and an adapter fixing member configured to fix the lower portion of the adapter together with the adapter support member. A method for attaching a stretch label on a good including setting a stretch label on the adapter mentioned above; inserting the good into the openings of the adapter and adapter support member while extending the label at a ratio not greater than 5 %; and releasing the stretch label attaching device from the good while holding the label, to attach the label to the predetermined position of the good.

Stretch label attaching device

A hollow, cylindrical toner bottle of the present invention discharges toner stored therein when mounted to an electrophotographic image forming apparatus in a substantially horizontal position and then rotated about its axis. The toner bottle is made up of a mouth including a toner outlet and a cylindrical wall, and a body including a circumferential wall and a bottom. The mouth is formed by injection molding. The outer circumference of the toner outlet has circularity of 0.7 mm or below.

Toner bottle and electrophotographic apparatus using the same

Toner cartridge

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Numazu, Japan

Kotaro Koide