TONER REPLENISHING DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner replenishing device by which a toner hopper is surely and cleanly replenished with toner from a toner cartridge with very simple and inexpensive configuration.

SOLUTION: The toner cartridge possesses film which covers a bottom aperture part and also is stuck so as to be capable of being peeled and a shutter member that covers the bottom aperture part and is made slidable, and a direction in which the film is peeled is made same as a direction in which the toner cartridge is moved to a toner replenishing position after being placed at the toner hopper and a direction in which the movement of the toner cartridge is stopped with the stoppage of the sliding of the slidable cover of the toner hopper, and the toner cartridge possesses a locking mechanism to stop the movement in a direction in which it is separated from the aperture part of the toner hopper.

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