| 摘要 |
A cleaning apparatus for cleaning a photoconductive belt of a seamless type which is used within a recording system for transferring a latent image of information to be recorded to a recording paper, the photoconductive belt being rotated along a rotation path by a plurality of supporting rollers. The cleaning apparatus includes a blade part provided at a first position along the rotation path of the photoconductive belt for removing a residual toner from the photoconductive belt, a brush part provided at a second position upstream of the first position along the rotation path of the photoconductive belt, the brush part having a pile material coming in contact with a surface of the photoconductive belt, and a scraper part for cleaning the brush part by removing a remaining toner from the pile material of the brush part. It is thus possible to keep the photoconductive belt clean for a long duration of the use in the recording system, without causing a cleaning problem. In one embodiment, the blade part includes a plurality of blades which are rotatably mounted on a rotary member and each blade is sequentially moved into contact with the photoconductive belt after a predetermined number of revolutions of the belt is reached.
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