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Title:
WASTE TONER COLLECTION BOTTLE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2008268316
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a waste toner collection bottle for preventing toner from adhering in the waste toner collection bottle.

The waste toner collection bottle 30 has a configuration to have no flange on a screw shaft edge part of a shaft hole 31 that receives a shaft 23 of a conveyance screw 22, therefore, even when a force in the direction opposite to the conveyance direction is applied upon conveyance of toner by means of the conveyance screw 22, the flange does not come into uneven and local contact with wall surface, the temperature is not raised by the increase of sliding resistance due to a large contact pressure and, as the result, the toner adhesion can be prevented. A ring-shape sponge seal member 32 is disposed between a pulley 26 and the bottle main body on the outside of the shaft hole 31 to prevent the leakage of toner from the shaft hole 31. The outer surface is determined depending on a model even when the bottle is molded by blow-molding, therefore, a pressing force of a seal member can be properly maintained and, as the result, the sealing property is improved.


Inventors:
TAWADA TAKAAKI
Application Number:
JP2007107787A
Publication Date:
November 06, 2008
Filing Date:
April 17, 2007
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
RICOH KK
International Classes:
G03G21/10; G03G9/08
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Naoki Yoshimura