Patent ID: 7483663

Claim:
A fixing apparatus for fusing and fixing an unfixed developer onto a recording medium, comprising: fixing rollers which form a pair of rotators, a recording medium on which an image of an unfixed developer is formed being passed through a pressure contact section formed by the fixing rollers; a belt-shaped cleaning member provided so as to contact at least either one of fixing rollers, for cleaning a surface of the fixing roller; a pressure-contact roller provided so as to press the cleaning member on the fixing roller which is in contact with the cleaning member; a feeding roller for feeding the belt-shaped cleaning member which has been previously rolled up; a winding roller for taking up the cleaning member which has been fed from the feeding roller and cleaned the surface of the fixing roller; a guide roller provided between the pressure-contact roller and the winding roller so as to contact the cleaning member; and developer removing means for removing a developer existent on a surface of the to-be-taken-up cleaning member provided on a periphery of the winding roller.