IMAGE FORMING DEVICE

• Main Author: SHIMA KAZUTOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.09.1997
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; CONVEYING; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS,CABLES; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; STORING; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain deterioration of picture image quality by accumulation of paper powder by effectively removing the paper powder on an end part in parallel with the transport direction of a transcribing sheet. SOLUTION: It is at least furnished with an image bearing body 1, a transcribing means 5 arranged at a transcribing portion in proximity of the image bearing body 1 and a sheet carrier means 6 to feed a transcribing sheet 4 from a paper feeding tray 11 to the transcribing means 5 along a sheet carrier passage 12, and it is provided with a paper powder removal means 20 to cover a region of less than the maximum passing width and more than the minimum passing width on the upstream of the transcribing portion of the sheet carrier passage 12 and in a direction orthogonal with the feeding direction of the transcribing sheet 4 of a plural number of sizes.