Patent ID: 8706010

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image developer configured to develop an electrostatic latent image; a toner container comprising: a toner outlet through which toner is delivered; a main cap member configured to close the toner outlet; and a sub-cap member configured to cover the main cap member; and a toner provider configured to deliver toner from the toner container to the image developer using gravity, wherein the toner container is displaceable between a first position of positioning the toner outlet in a horizontal direction, a second position of positioning the toner outlet in a vertical direction, and a third position of being removed, thereby directing the toner outlet upward relative to the horizontal direction when further rotating the toner container from the first position, with the main cap member closing the toner outlet when taking the first position and the third position of being removed and the sub-cap member covering the main cap member while the toner container is displaced from the first position to the third position of being removed.