摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To hardly cause turn-up of a blade even in the case that the contact pressure and/or the contact angle of a cleaning blade is increased. SOLUTION: This image forming device is provided with the blade 21 to scrape off toner remaining on an image carrier 10 which is a rotary body to carry a toner image after the toner image on the image carrier 10 is transferred while coming into contact with the surface of the image carrier 10 and a scoop sheet 22 to scoop out the toner scraped off by the blade while coming into contact with the image carrier on a lower side than the contact part C of the image carrier and the blade, and the scoop sheet is provided with a heaping member 23b by which the toner scraped off by the blade is always heaped at the contact part C of the image carrier and the blade and a part U right under the part C through a damping member 23e.
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