Patent ID: 8811870

Claim:
A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image formed on a recording material, comprising: a fixing rotatable member; a cleaning unit configured to clean said fixing rotatable member, said cleaning unit including a first shaft, a second shaft, and cleaning fabric extended between said first shaft and said second shaft and fed out from one of said first shaft and said second shaft and wound up on the other of said first shaft and said second shaft, wherein the outer diameter of said cleaning fabric wound on said first shaft and the outer diameter of said cleaning fabric wound on said second shaft change in accordance with the amount of winding of said cleaning fabric, wherein at the time of cleaning said fixing rotatable member, an outer surface of said cleaning fabric wound on said first shaft contacts said fixing rotatable member, and wherein the outer diameter of said cleaning fabric wound on said first shaft is larger than that wound on said second shaft irrespective of the amount of said cleaning fabric on said first shaft.