Abstract: An improved developing device includes a rotatable sleeve, a reservoir from which developer is available for image development, a hopper containing fresh replenishment toner, a plate for scraping used developer from the sleeve and for directing it into a conduit in which it is mixed with fresh replenishment toner, and at least an opening in the conduit from which replenished developer comprising used developer mixed with fresh toner is returned to the reservoir in a substantially uniformly mixed condition for use in subsequent image development.

Abstract: An apparatus for collecting copy sheets in facially reversed or overturned relation with respect to their discharge from a copying machine includes a guide member disposed proximate the discharge port of the machine. The guide member comprises a substantially planar guide portion inclined at a predetermined angle relative to the direction of copy sheet discharge from the machine, and a deflecting portion unitarily extending from the guide portion at a predetermined angle with respect thereto. The apparatus further includes a receiving tray spaced below the discharge port and toward which discharged copy sheets are deflected by contact with the guide and deflecting portions of the guide member for collection in overturned or face reversed orientation.

Abstract: A drum cleaning apparatus for an electrophotographic copying machine includes a toner image forming drum rotatable about a horizontal axis, a blade for scraping off toner particles deposited on the cylindrical outer surface of the drum, an inclined toner particle guide plate having an upper edge bearing on the outer surface of the drum upstream of the scraping blade as viewed in the rotating direction of the drum and a lower edge positioned at an opening of a toner collecting container, a holding structure for supporting the toner guide plate and mounted swingably on a shaft with play, the shaft extending in parallel with the axis of said drum. Feeble and periodical shocks are applied to the toner guide plate by way of the supporting shaft thereby to promote the sliding down of the toner particles on and along the guide plate into the collecting container to prevent accumulation of the particles on the plate.

Abstract: A drum cleaning blade for a image transfer type of copying machine which has a rotatable drum provided thereon with a photo-sensitive cylindrical layer in which an electrostatic latent image of an original to be copied is produced and developed by a toner powder. The blade comprises a main sheet-like center portion having a straight lower edge and a pair of side portions from which triangular projections extend forwardly, respectively. The inner edges of the triangular projections are slanted outwardly.The side portions in which the triangular projections are formed are separated from the main portion through cuts.The lower edge as well as the slanted inner edges of the triangular projections are caused to bear on the outer cylindrical surface of the drum thereby to scrape off the toner particles remaining as deposited on the drum surface after the transfer processing of the toner image to a transfer sheet.

Abstract: For removing toner from a photosensitive drum roll for electrophotography, a blade contacts the surface of the drum roll at a location where said surface is moving upwardly, to scrape residual toner therefrom. A resilient transfer roll, spaced below the blade, carries away toner that falls from the drum roll. The transfer roll is directly rotatably driven by the drum roll. One of the rolls has enlarged diameter end portions for driving contact between the rolls at zones outside the image area of the drum roll. The resilient transfer roll is urged toward the drum roll under a biasing force that radially compresses its end portions to maintain it either in merely line contact with the image area of the drum roll or spaced from that area by a distance less than the diameter of toner particles.

Abstract: A process of producing an electrostatic photographic image by means of X-rays, comprising applying a voltage across two electrodes disposed in opposed parallel relationship, one of the electrodes having a layer of an insulating material on the side thereof facing the other electrode, the space between the insulating layer and the other electrode being filled with an electron or ion emitting liquid. The electrons or ions are generated in the liquid by subjecting the latter to imagewise exposure with X-rays and the electrons or ions are absorbed on the surface of the insulating layer to form an electrostatic latent image. The latent image is then developed with ionized toner to render the same visible.