摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To let burdens of maintenance work reduced, and running cost lowered by satisfactorily utilizing containing capacity of a waste toner containing part, by an image forming device in a type of developing the latent image on the image carrier by the toner and transfering it to transfering material. SOLUTION: In a waste toner containing part 115, a waste toner dispersing device 118 is arranged on a midway that a waste toner falls. The waste toner falling inside a waste toner discharging cylinder 116, respectively dispersed to every corner in a waste toner box 117, at the time of being brought into contact with a rotating feather wheel 118b before being contained in the waste toner box 117, is uniformly accumulated in the waste toner box 117. A shape of the heaped up waste toner, becomes in a gently sloping hill state as shown by hatched lines. The containing space in the waste toner containing part 115 is efficiently utilized, when the waste toner is heaped in such a manner. |