LUBRICANT APPLICATOR AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE

摘要

A lubricant application device 12 capable of shaving a solid lubricant evenly and lubricating an image carrying member evenly has a solid lubricant 25 formed by solidifying a lubricant for lubricating the surface of an image carrying member 8 which carries images composed of a developer, and a brush roller 24 rotating while abutting against the solid lubricant 25 and the image carrying member 8, wherein the brush roller 24 has looped bristles 23 implanted in an endless state and is rotated in a direction of the rotation following the rotation of the image carrying member 8, and has a circumferential velocity of the rotation of the brush roller 24 is faster than 56% of the circumferential velocity of the image carrying member 8 and slower than 80% of the circumferential velocity of the image carrying member 8.