| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming device capable of efficiently carrying toner from a toner bottle, etc., arranged away from a developing device to the developing device, and also, efficiently removing foreign matter such as paper powder and aggregated toner, etc., contained in recycled toner. SOLUTION: As for the image forming device for forming an image by transferring and fixing a toner image obtained by developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier by the toner carried on the developing device to a transfer paper, and provided with a toner carrying mechanism for carrying and replenishing the toner in the toner bottle 1 to a developing unit by using an air pump motor 6, a toner replenishing cylinder 4 for temporarily storing the toner to be carried to the developing unit is arranged on the way of the toner carrying path between the air pump motor and the toner bottle, and the toner replenishing cylinder is provided with a filter which is arranged between an air guiding port 16 positioned in the lower part of the cylinder and a discharge port 15 positioned in the upper part of the cylinder, and the clogging of the filter is prevented by a cleaning means. |
