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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Koji Imamiya, Kawasaki, JP;
Goro Oda, Yokosuka, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device of a copy machine has a pair of rollers for transporting a paper sheet having a toner image held thereon by sandwiching it therebetween and for heating and pressurizing the toner image to fix it on the paper sheet. A cleaning device for cleaning remaining toner is arranged so as to face the surface of the fixing roller. The cleaning device has a cylinder having a slit extended in a shaft direction in the outer periphery, a feed-out shaft and a rewind shaft arranged within the cylinder, a web fed out from the feed-out shaft through the slit wound around the outer periphery of the cylinder and rewind by the rewind shaft within the cylinder again through the slit. The cleaning device is arranged in such a way that a part of the web wound around the outer periphery of the cylinder is in contact with the surface of the fixing roller.