Patent ID: 8340561

Claim:
A cleaning arrangement for a moving element to be cleaned in an electrographic printing apparatus, comprising: a cleaning element that has a cleaning member that, for cleaning, rests on a surface of the moving element to be cleaned; a drive unit for the cleaning element that actuates the cleaning element such that the cleaning member cleans the surface of the moving element to be cleaned region-by-region; the cleaning member resting on the element to be cleaned having a width of the element to be cleaned; the cleaning member being arranged on one end of an accommodation linkage that is borne at its other end such that it can rotate on a rotation axle arranged in limbs of a pillow block; a spring element arranged on the accommodation linkage that exerts an elastic force on the accommodation linkage and the cleaning element in the direction of the element to be cleaned; and said drive unit comprising a cam device that pivots the cleaning member of the cleaning element onto the element to be cleaned during time intervals and pivots said cleaning member away again after expiration of said time intervals.