Holder device for handling an image carrier of an image forming apparatus
US4908661A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 8, 1988 |
| Grant date | Mar 13, 1990 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 8, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2221/1807
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A holder device for handling a replaceable image carrier of an image forming apparatus. A photoconductive element mounted in an electrophotographic copier or similar apparatus and to which toner adheres can be dismounted and replaced with a new photoconductive element with ease and without touching it. A box-like holder has receiving sections for accommodating the old and new photoconductive elements individually. The receiving sections are each provided with guide slots for grasping and guiding opposite ends of a shaft on which a photoconductive element is mounted and openings each being contiguous with a respective one of the guide slots, said guide slots and openings being formed through each of opposite end walls of a housing of the holder device. Lugs are provided on the end walls of the housing to cancel the restraint of restraining members which prevent the ends of a shaft of a photoconductive element from slipping out of the copier, as the holder is sequentially moved into the copier.
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