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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1986
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1984
Masakatsu Itoigawa, Nara, JP;
Masaru Nishijima, Hirakata, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A copying machine has a roller unit which includes a driving roller and an idler roller which are positioned substantially parallel to each other. The roller unit has opposite ends in the axial direction of the rollers, and is supported in a housing of the copying machine at one end thereof. An endless photoreceptor belt is mounted on the rollers. A lid member is provided to the housing movably between an attached position and a detached position. When the lid member is moved to the attached position, the other end of the roller unit is supported by the lid member and, when it is moved to the detached position, the other end of the roller unit is freed, thereby enabling the removal and mounting of the endless photoreceptor belt in the axial direction of the rollers during the lid member is in the detached position.