Patent ID: 8270868

Claim:
A cleaning mechanism comprising: a first scraping-off and agitating member, located to be opposed to a belt surface and located to be a predetermined space apart from the belt surface, configured to scrape off, to agitate, or to capture a visualizing material, and fiber or powder different from the visualizing material, that are present on the belt surface; a second scraping-off and agitating member, located in contact with the belt surface, configured to scrape off, to agitate, or to capture the visualizing material and the fiber or the powder different from the visualizing material; and a scraping-off member, located in contact with the belt surface, configured to scrape off the visualizing material and the fiber or powder different from the visualizing material; and an auxiliary scraping-off member, having a voltage polarity that is opposite to a voltage polarity of the visualizing material, configured to scrape off the visualizing material and the fiber or the powder different from the visualizing material that are captured by the first scraping-off and agitating member.