Patent ID: 7751759

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an apparatus main body including a developing device, a toner container detachably mountable into the apparatus main body and adapted to replenish the developing device with toner particles, and a lever member settable to a locking position by a biasing force of a specified biasing member to interlock the toner container with the apparatus main body while being pressed down against the biasing force of the biasing member to unlock the toner container, wherein the lever member includes an elevating piece movable upward and downward along a guide piece provided on the apparatus main body, an operation lever projecting from a bottom edge of the elevating piece toward a side where an operator would face, and an operation surface to be pressed, the operation surface being provided on an upper surface of the operation lever, and having an inclined surface sloped downward toward the side where the operator would face.