Patent ID: 8626049

Claim:
A lubricant application device comprising a brush roller which rotates while contacting an image carrying member and a solid lubricant, shaves said solid lubricant and applies the shaved solid lubricant onto said image carrying member, and a flicker which abuts against said brush roller and knocks off a developer adhering to said brush roller through a rotation of said brush roller, wherein said brush roller has looped bristles implanted in a state of endless loop, each of the looped bristles having a relaxed state when not in contact with the solid lubricant or the flicker; and said flicker has a contact surface which forms an acute angle with a direction of a tangent line on an upstream side in a rotation direction of said brush roller, wherein the flicker is provided upstream of the solid lubricant in the rotation direction of the brush roller at a sufficient distance to allow the looped bristles to assume the relaxed state from a time after contact with the flicker and before contact with the solid lubricant.