Patent ID: 7539452

Claim:
A waste toner collecting apparatus, comprising: a waste toner containing member to be replaceable mounted in a main body of an image forming apparatus and through into a conveyance section for conveying waste toner collected from an image forming section in order to contain the waste toner; a shutter adapted to slide in a motion interlocked with an opening/closing motion of a cover of the main body of the image forming apparatus in order to open a conveyance end section of the conveyance section at the time of closing the cover but close the conveyance end section of the conveyance section at the time of opening the cover; and a lock member adapted to contact the waste toner containing member mounted in the main body of the image forming apparatus in order to open a moving route of the shutter at the time of sliding the shutter to open it but move away from the waste toner containing member in order to block the moving route of the shutter at the time of sliding the shutter to open it.