Title: Magnet-less sealable developer cartridge
Application Number: 98806697 Application Date: 1998.06.30
Publication Number: 1261962 Publication Date: 2000.08.02
Approval Pub. Date: 2003.07.30 Granted Pub. Date: 2003.07.30
International Classifi-cation: G03G15/08
Applicant(s) Name: Ravi B. Sahay Address:
Inventor(s) Name: Ravi B. Sahag;Henry L. Alioth
Attorney & Agent: lou xianyang
Abstract:
    A removable, sealable, magnet-less cartridge for use in a reproduction apparatus of the type having a control device to control the apparatus, a photoreceptor to receive toner through a photoreceptor path and to transfer the toner onto imaged portions of the photoreceptor, and a developer transporter of the magnetic type to carry toner in a magnetic brush to the imaged portions of the photoreceptor and to return unspent toner therefrom. The magnet-less cartridge device has a housing adjacent to the developer transporter; a developer mix hopper and a mixer within the housing for holding and mixing toner and a carrier therefor in the form of a developer mix; a scraper at an open end of the housing in communicating adjacency of the developer transporter; and a sealing device including a first movable sealing member, a second movable sealing member, each of which are adjacent to the open end of the housing and in operational communication with the control means to seal the cartridge in a plurality of sealing modes.
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