| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a waste toner recovery box in which a plurality of waste toner recovery ports are formed, and waste toner is nearly uniformly accumulated without wasting capacity of the box even when there exists a difference in the amount of recovered waste toner between the recovery ports. SOLUTION: The waste toner recovery box attached to the image forming apparatus and recovering and storing used toner or developer discharged from the image forming apparatus is constituted of a box main body where a plurality of waste toner recovery ports are formed and also the waste toner dropped from the respective recovery ports is stored in internal space, and a transport member provided along the upper limit of the storage of the waste toner in the box main body and rotationally driven so as to diffuse the waste toner dropped from the respective recovery ports in the box main body. The transport member repeats rotation in a normal direction and rotation in a reverse direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |
