| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To excellently recycle removed and recovered toner and also efficiently perform maintenance or the like by disposing a toner carrying means for carrying the recovered toner to a developing means on the back side of an image forming device main body. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a toner carrying device 20 for carrying the toner recovered by a photoreceptor cleaning means to the developing means. The device 20 has a screw pump 30 as the toner carrying means and an air pump 40 as an air supply means and is provided with a toner accumulation part 21 on the upstream side of the pump 30 in a toner carrying direction. The device 20 for carrying the recovered toner is arranged on the back side of a copying machine. The device 20 arranged on the back side need not be detached at the time of the maintenance of a photoreceptor, a developing part and a transfer part, so that workability is enhanced. |
