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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1986
Filed:
Apr. 24, 1984
Kinzi Saito, Kawasaki, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The cleaning apparatus includes a pair of parallel elastic plates, corresponding end portions of the elastic plates are integrally connected to each other, and the other end portions of the elastic plates are fixed to an arm member which is urged towards the photoconductor drum, and a cleaning blade member is fixed to one of the elastic plates, with a top portion of the cleaning blade member projecting from the elastic plate and being in pressure contact with the surface of the photoconductor drum with a predetermined pressure, and with the angle .theta. between the upstream side of the cleaning blade in terms of the rotation of the photoconductor drum and the tangent at the contact point of the blade with the surface of the photoconductor drum is less than .pi./2.