摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner-replenishing unit where leakage of toner can be prevented. SOLUTION: In the toner-replenishing unit 1, that can be attached freely to and detached from an imaging device body, provided with a toner bottle 3 installed with a spiral projecting part on its inner wall surface, in which the toner is ejected to a toner-storing part 5 by the rotation of the toner bottle 3, the toner ejected inside the toner-storing part is carried to a toner-replenishing opening 20 of a developing device 2 from the ejecting opening 19 of a toner- ejecting part 7 provided in the toner-storing part 5 by a toner-replenishing member 9 provided in the toner-storing part 5, a shutter 21 for opening and closing the ejecting opening 19 of the toner-ejecting part 7 and a lever 23 for the shutter for carrying out opening and closing of the shutter 21 are provided. |