Patent ID: 7949280

Claim:
An image heating apparatus comprising: a heating rotary member, which heats an image on a recording material at a nip portion; air blowing means for blowing air toward an air blowing port to cool a predetermined area of the heating rotary member; a shutter, which opens and closes the air blowing port; and determination means for determining an execution of an operation of the air blowing means with the shutter opened after a first job is completed, in accordance with a size of a recording material in a width direction perpendicular to a recording material transport direction in a second job for supplying a recording material, between an execution termination of the first job for continuously supplying recording materials having a size smaller than a predetermined size in the width direction, while operating the air blowing means, and a start of a recording material supply of the second job, in a case that the second job is executed subsequent to the termination of the first job.