1. An illuminative clipper structure comprising:
a body including a first support arm and a second support arm, both of which are axially connected together, and the first support arm including a first head section disposed on an upper side thereof and a first connecting section defined between the first head section and a first gripping section thereof, the first connecting section includes a recessed area arranged on an outer wall thereof adjacent to a movable opening of a clipper, the recessed area including a first recess facing to the first gripping section and communicating with the recessed area, and the recessed area including a second recess facing to the first head section and communicating with the recessed area;
a first sleeve fitted on the first support arm and including a chamber formed on an inner wall thereof, and an aperture to communicate with the chamber;
an illuminating assembly including a holder, a wire, and a bulb, wherein the holder is placed in the chamber of the first sleeve to receive a number of cells and supply power from the cells to the bulb to emit lights, one end of the wire is coupled with the holder, and another end of the wire is connected with the bulb, the wire is inserted into the aperture of the first sleeve from the first recess of the body and the bulb is located at the second recess of the recessed area of the first connecting section of the first support arm;
a protective cover covered onto the recessed area of the body to fix the bulb, and the bulb emits lights to the opening of the clipper clearly between the first head section and the second head section;
wherein the protective cover includes an upper groove and a lower groove, and the lower groove is inserted by the wire of the illuminating assembly, the upper groove is used to fix the bulb so that the bulb emits lights to illuminate the opening of the clipper.
2. The illuminative clipper structure as claimed in claim 1, and the first gripping section mounted on a lower side thereof; the first head section includes a first toothed portion formed on an inner wall thereof, and the first sleeve is fitted on the first gripping section; the second support arm includes a second head section fixed on an upper side thereof, a second connecting section defined between the second head section and a second gripping section thereof, and the second gripping section secured on a lower side thereof, the second head section includes a second toothed portion formed on an inner wall thereof, and the second connecting section of the second support arm is axially connected with the first connecting section of the first support arm so that the movable opening of the clipper is formed between the first and the second head sections.
3. The illuminative clipper structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first sleeve is made of rubber material.
4. The illuminative clipper structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first sleeve includes a first hole to receive the first gripping section of the body.
5. The illuminative clipper structure as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the second sleeve fitted on the second support arm.
6. The illuminative clipper structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holder is placed in the chamber of the first sleeve and fixed by a plurality of locking elements.
7. The illuminative clipper structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the illuminating assembly includes a lip fixed on the holder to prevent the cells from disengaging from the holder.
8. The illuminative clipper structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holder includes a button disposed thereon to power onoff the bulb to emit lights.
9. The illuminative clipper structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body of the illuminative clipper structure is applied in vices, nose pliers, and cutting pliers.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, comprising:
a transfer member for transferring a developed image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum onto the recording material;
an image forming unit including the electrophotographic photosensitive drum and a cartridge mounting portion for demountably mounting a cartridge accommodating a developer;
a cleaning member for removing the developer remaining on a surface of said electrophotographic photosensitive drum;
a residual developer container, demountably mounted to said image forming unit, for accommodating the developer removed by said cleaning member;
wherein said image forming unit is movable, relative to a main assembly of the apparatus in a state that said cartridge and residual developer container are mounted to said image forming unit, between 1) an image forming position when said cartridge is positioned to be capable of forming the image, in which said developer container and said residual developer container are prevented from being removed from an inside to an outside of the main assembly of the apparatus, and 2) a mounting and demounting position in which said residual developer container and said cartridge are detachably mountable individually relative to said image forming unit, and are permitted to be moved from the inside to the outside of the main assembly of the apparatus.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a feeding member for feeding the developer removed by said cleaning member in an axial direction of said electrophotographic photosensitive drum, wherein said residual developer container is disposed in a downstream side with respect to a feeding direction of said feeding member.
3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said electrophotographic photosensitive drum, said cleaning member and said feeding member are contained in a photosensitive member unit which is mounted to said image forming unit.
4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a mounting and demounting direction of said residual developer container is the same as a mounting and demounting direction of said cartridge.
5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said residual developer container is provided with a grip portion for mounting and demounting to said image forming unit.
6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image forming unit is provided with a guide portion for mounting and demounting said residual developer container to said image forming unit, and said residual developer container is provided with a portion-to-be-guided for being guided by said guide portion.
7. An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said guide portion is provided on an outer surface of said image forming unit.
8. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said feeding member is provided at one end with a driving force transmitting portion for transmitting a driving force to said feeding member, and said residual developer container is provided on a side opposite a side provided with said driving force transmitting portion with respect to an axial direction of said electrophotographic photosensitive drum.
9. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image forming unit is rotatable between the image formation position and the mounting and demounting position.
10. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said residual developer container is provided with an opening for accommodating the developer removed by said cleaning member into said container, and wherein said opening always faces upward during rotation of said image forming unit.
11. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of such cartridges are disposed along one direction, and said residual developer container extends along said one direction.
12. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image forming unit is provided with a locking portion which fixes said residual developer container to said image forming unit and which is effective to prevent said residual developer container from disengaging outwardly of said image forming unit during movement of said image forming unit, and wherein said residual developer container is provided with a portion-to-be-locked to be engaged with said locking portion.
13. An apparatus according to claim 12, wherein when said residual developer container is dismounted in the mounting and demounting position, said portion-to-be-locked is disengaged from said locking portion in interrelation with a mounting operation, thus permitting said image forming unit to be dismounted to an outside.
14. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said residual developer container is provided with discrimination means for exhibiting that it is not said cartridge.
15. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said residual developer container is provided with a plurality of receiving-side openings for accommodating the developer removed from a plurality of surfaces of such said electrophotographic photosensitive drums, and said residual developer container includes a single accommodating portion for accommodating the developer received from said receiving-side openings.
16. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said residual developer container is provided with a plurality of receiving-side openings for receiving the developer removed from a plurality of surfaces of such said electrophotographic photosensitive drums, wherein said transfer member is cylindrical, and said photosensitive member drums are arranged along a peripheral surface of said transfer member, and wherein said receiving-side openings are deviated in alignment with positions of said electrophotographic photosensitive drums.
17. An apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising a feeding member for feeding the developer removed by said cleaning member in an axial direction of said electrophotographic photosensitive drum, and a plurality of supply side openings engageable with said receiving-side openings, respectively, wherein sizes of said receiving-side openings are larger than sizes of said supply side openings.
18. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said feeding member is provided at one end with a driving force transmitting portion for transmitting a driving force to said feeding member, and said residual developer container is provided on a side opposite a side provided with said driving force transmitting portion with respect to an axial direction of said electrophotographic photosensitive drum.
19. An apparatus according to claim 16, further comprising a feeding member for feeding the developer removed by said cleaning member in an axial direction of said electrophotographic photosensitive drum, and a plurality of supply side openings engageable with said receiving-side openings, respectively, wherein sizes of said receiving-side openings are larger than sizes of said supply side openings.