Patent ID: 7072608

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a plurality of image forming means for forming toner images; a rotatable intermediate transfer belt having a surface, to which the toner images are primarily transferred, said surface being declined and facing downward opposite to said plurality of image forming means; a plurality of rollers for supporting said intermediate transfer belt; a plurality of primary transferring means for primarily transferring the toner images to said intermediate transfer belt in a plurality of primary transfer positions; secondary transferring means for secondarily transferring the toner images from said intermediate transfer belt to a recording material in a secondary transfer position; fixing means including a pair of fixing members contacting with each other in a contact portion for fixing the toner images, which are secondarily transferred to the recording material in the secondary transfer position, to the recording material; and delivery means for delivering the recording material, to which the toner images are fixed, to a position that is outside of said image forming apparatus, wherein an uppermost roller among said plurality of rollers is disposed above the contact portion of said pair of fixing members and below an uppermost portion of said delivery means, and wherein an angle formed by said surface with a horizontal plane is smaller than an angle formed by said surface with a vertical plane.