Patent ID: 8655253

Claim:
A glossing device for processing a toner image formed on a recording medium, the device comprising: a heat roller subjected to heating; a stripper roller parallel to the heat roller; an endless, rotary glossing belt looped for rotation around the heat roller and the stripper roller; a first belt cooler adjacent to the glossing belt to cool the glossing belt; a pressure member opposite the heat roller; an endless, rotary cooling belt looped for rotation around the pressure member; and a second belt cooler adjacent to the cooling belt to cool the cooling belt, the heat roller and the pressure member pressing against each other via the glossing belt and the cooling belt to form a glossing nip therebetween through which the recording medium is conveyed with a first surface thereof facing the cooling belt and a second surface opposite the first surface thereof facing the glossing belt, the glossing belt and the cooling belt moving apart from each other downstream from the glossing nip, so that the recording medium after passage through the glossing nip remains in contact with the glossing belt and separates from the cooling belt as the glossing belt moves from the heat roller toward the stripper roller.