| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the space occupied by hoppers required as many as the number of developing devices, and also to make the capacity of the hopper correspond to the toner consumption, in an image forming device using toner of two or more colors. SOLUTION: In the image forming device using toner of two or more colors, and provided with the hopper 10 for storing each color toner and developing devices 4 and 8 to which the toner is dropped and supplied from the hopper and for carrying and stirring the toner so as to supply the toner to developing sleeves for respective colors 17 and 18, at least one partitioning plate 11 is installed in the hopper so as to store two or more kinds of toner in one hopper space, and a projection 14 is moved on a guide rail 13 and the projection is fixed by a locking screw 19, the partitioning plate 11 is freely moved and fixed in a prescribed extent, and each capacity in the hopper is freely adjusted to a prescribed capacity. |
