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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2001
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus including: an image forming portion; a recording-material transporting member; a cleaning portion; a fixing portion equipped with a fixing member coated with a mold release agent; and a controller. The apparatus can perform two-sided copying by transferring and fixing an image on a first surface of recording material, and then transferring and fixing an image on an opposite surface. A cleaning blade in the cleaning portion abuts the recording material transport means and a normal line of a surface of the cleaning blade is substantially directed to a gravity direction, and faces an upstream side of an abutting portion of the cleaning blade in a transportation direction of the recording-material transporting member, wherein the surface of the cleaning blade facing an upstream side of an abutting position in a transportation direction faces a direction opposite to the gravity direction.