Patent ID: 11960233
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming portion including an image bearing member for bearing a toner image and configured to form the toner image;
an intermediary transfer belt provided below the image bearing member and onto which the toner image is transferred from said image bearing member;
a first collecting container provided detachably and configured to collect residual toner discharged from said image forming portion;
a second collecting container provided detachably and configured to collect the residual toner discharged from said image forming portion;
a feeding device configured to feed the residual toner, discharged from said image forming portion, toward said first collecting container and said second collecting container selectively; and
a cassette configured to accommodate a recording material,
wherein said first collecting container and said second collecting container are provided below a bottom surface of said intermediary transfer belt and above said cassette and are disposed side by side in a widthwise direction perpendicular to a rotational axis direction of said image bearing member, and
wherein at least a part of said first collecting container overlaps with said intermediary transfer belt and said cassette as viewed in the vertical direction, and at least a part of said second collecting container overlaps with said intermediary transfer belt and said cassette as viewed in the vertical direction.