| 摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently fill toner into a waste toner collection container. <P>SOLUTION: The waste toner collection container 50 configured to store the waste toner removed by a cleaning member and conveyed by a conveying member via a conveying path is constituted of foldable storage sections 56-1, 56-2, ..., 56-n continuously formed stepwise, each of the storage sections 56-1, 56-2, ..., 56-n is foldably set in the waste toner storage part of the waste toner container, and each of the storage sections 56-1, 56-2, ..., 56-n is successively expanded in accordance with an increase in amount of conveyed waste toner, so that the storage capacity is increased. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT</p> |
