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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Fukao, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355283 ; 355298 ; 355300 ;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus provided with a transport device for discharging waste toner remained on a holding member of electrostatic latent image in an image forming section after transporting the toner onto a cleaning web arranged for cleaning fixing rollers of a fixing device. The waste toner transported and discharged by the transport device is absorbed into a wide area of the cleaning web and rolled therein since used portion of the cleaning web is rolled up. The transport device includes a mechanism for dispersing the discharged waste toner onto the cleaning web thereby collecting the waste toner in a wide area of the cleaning web.