Patent ID: 8792816
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image-forming device, comprising: a holding member; a plurality of photosensitive drums that are held by the holding member, that are juxtaposed with one another in a prescribed direction, and that are arranged spaced apart from one another to form a row of photosensitive drums in the prescribed direction; a plurality of developer material accommodating parts that are held by the holding member in one to one correspondence with the plurality of photosensitive drums so as to form a row of developer material accommodating parts in the prescribed direction and that are configured to accommodate developer material to be supplied to the photosensitive drums; an endless belt extending in the prescribed direction and confronting all of the plurality of photosensitive drums at the same time; a recovering unit that is held by the holding member and that is configured to remove, from the belt, waste developer material to be discarded from the belt and collect the waste developer material; a waste developer material accommodating part that is configured to accommodate waste developer material collected by the recovering unit; and a waste developer material conveying mechanism that is configured to be connected to both of the recovering unit and the waste developer material accommodating part and to convey the waste developer material from the recovering unit to the waste developer material accommodating part, the holding member including: a first side plate and a second side plate that are disposed on a pair of opposite sides of the photosensitive drums in an axial direction of the photosensitive drums and that confront with each other in the axial direction, the axial direction being orthogonal to the prescribed direction; and a first beam and a second beam that are disposed on a pair of opposite sides of the photosensitive drums in the prescribed direction and that span between the first and second side plates, the first and second beams extending parallel to the axial direction of the photosensitive drums, the first beam being disposed on an upstream side of the second beam in the prescribed direction, the waste developer material accommodating part being provided integrally with a most upstream developer material accommodating part in the row of the developer material accommodating parts in the prescribed direction, at least part of the waste developer material conveying mechanism being fixed to the first beam extending parallel to the axial direction of the photosensitive drums.