Patent ID: 8320792

Claim:
A cleaning device for a rotary member, comprising: a casing including an opening facing the rotary member; a cleaning member disposed at the opening in the casing to contact a surface of the rotary member and to remove a substance adhering to the surface of the rotary member; an entrance seal provided at the opening in the casing and disposed upstream from the cleaning member in a direction in which the rotary member rotates to prevent leakage of the substance removed by the cleaning member through a gap between the opening in the casing and the rotary member; a pair of lateral end seals provided at the opening in the casing and respectively disposed at both end portions of the cleaning member as well as the entrance seal in an axial direction of the rotary member to prevent leakage of the substance removed by the cleaning member from the both end portions, the pair of lateral end seals each having a first face attached to the casing and a second face opposite the first face; and a compressing member attached to the casing, to compress each lateral end seal by pressing the second face of the lateral end seal, the lateral end seal sandwiched between the casing and the compressing member, the compressing member pressing a third face of the lateral end seal perpendicular to the first face and the second face of the lateral end seal against a first surface of the casing in a direction in which the lateral end seal is expanded by the compression.