| 摘要 |
PURPOSE:To miniaturize a recovered toner box and further, an image forming device by drastically increasing the storage capacity of the recovered toner box in such a manner that stored toner is made into a melted state, and volume is greatly decreased. CONSTITUTION:The recovered toner box 8 is arranged on the upper side of a toner preheating device 11, the surroundings of the bottom part of the recovered toner box g are warmed up with heat from a heat source. When a low temperature meltable toner such as thermal dissociation type capsule toner, is used as toner, the recovered toner 6b stored in the bottom part of the recovered toner box 8, is stored in a state where the toner 6b is melted by the heat from the heat source, in the recovered toner box 8, and accumulated as the melted toner 6c. |
