TONER CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC G03G15/08 

FIELD: image forming devices.

SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to a toner cartridge and to an image forming apparatus comprising a toner cartridge. Claimed group of inventions includes a toner cartridge and an image forming apparatus. Moreover, the toner cartridge contains the main body of the cartridge, which houses the toner and the mixer, which can be rotated around an axis of rotation along one direction, and mixing the toner placed in the main body of the cartridge, while the main body of the cartridge contains: a curved part, curved in the shape of an arc around the axis of rotation and a recess, recessed from the curved part towards the side remote from the axis of rotation, moreover, in the state where the mixer is in the first rotational position, a part of the mixer comes into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the bent part so that said part of the mixer is in the bent state, moreover, in a state where the stirrer is in the second rotational position, said part of the stirrer is inserted inside the recess.

EFFECT: technical result is to provide the possibility of replenishing the cartridge with a large amount of toner through the replenishment port at a time and to improve the efficiency of replenishing the toner.

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