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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2000
Shigeki Muramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A toner bottle has a protruding portion on a lateral side of the toner bottle and an incised groove is provided in a bottle holder, and both of them are composed to be removable and to rotate integrally. The incised portion is provided in a position where a toner delivery outlet of the toner bottle is rotated slightly from the state of facing straight up and where the protruding portion of the toner bottle may pass through. That is, according to the relative positioning of the protruding portion of the toner bottle and the incised portion of a ring member, the toner is prevented from spilling out of the toner delivery outlet of the toner bottle by regulating a removable attitude of the toner bottle with respect to the bottle holder.