Patent ID: 8913920

Claim:
A cartridge mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, said cartridge comprising: (i) a rotatable image bearing member on which a latent image is to be formed; (ii) charging means for contacting said image bearing member to charge a surface of said image bearing member; (iii) a frame supporting said image bearing member and said charging means; (iv) a covering member mounted to said frame to protect the surface of said image bearing member, said covering member being demountable, for use, from said frame; and (v) a spacer member movably supported by said covering member, said spacer member including a spacing portion disposed between said image bearing member and said charging means to space said image bearing member and said charging means from each other, wherein said covering member supports said spacer member so as to be movable to permit said covering member supporting said spacer member to be remounted to said frame without said spacing portion being inserted between said image bearing member and said charging means, wherein said covering member is remountable to said frame by moving in a direction substantially perpendicular to a rotational axis of said image bearing member.