TONER CARTRIDGE, HAVING POSITION CONTROL ELEMENTS Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G03G15/08 

FIELD: printing.

SUBSTANCE: present invention relates, substantially, to toner cartridges used in electrophotographic image forming devices and, particularly, to toner cartridge, having position control elements. Disclosed group of inventions includes toner cartridges for use in image forming device. At that, cartridges comprise: housing having toner storage container, wherein housing has front side, rear side, first lateral side, second lateral side, top side and bottom side, wherein housing has outlet port, communicated via fluid medium with toner discharge container, stored in container, from housing, first leg and second leg, each of which protrudes from housing bottom part and passes first of all along housing forward-backward direction to limit toner cartridge lateral travel during installation into image forming device, first leveling guide installed on housing first lateral side, and second leveling guide located at housing second lateral side, substantially parallel to first levelling guide, wherein each leveling guide passes essentially along housing forward-backward direction, wherein first levelling guide includes pair of rounded contact points, and second leveling guide includes rounded contact point, wherein rounded contact points of first and second leveling guides are convex towards bottom side and have free space between bottom side, wherein first and second leveling guides contact points together form three reference points that define plane, which controls toner cartridge vertical position in image forming device.

EFFECT: technical result consists in providing toner cartridge, which has position control facilities, which enables accurate cartridge setting, while allowing to insert cartridge into image forming device at different angles.

17 cl, 17 dwg