Electrostatic recording apparatus

Claim 1

An electrostatic recording apparatus comprising a cleaning device having a movable lever 11 pivotally supported at one end thereof through a shaft 10 on a housing, a plate member 13 which is moved with the lever 11 around the shaft 10, a plate member 14 connected at one end thereof through a shaft 10a with a first portion of the plate member 13, an intermediate plate member 17 pivotally connected at one end thereof through a shaft 10b with a second portion of the plate member 13, a plate member 18 pivotally supported at one end thereof through a shaft 8 by the housing 9, a shaft 18a for connecting the other end of the intermediate plate member 17 with the plate member 18, a tension spring 20, one end of which is fixed to the housing 9 and the other end of which is fixed to the shaft 18a, a toner scraping member 2 including a tip end 3 which is movable along a path between a position where the tip end 3 of the toner scraping member 2 is in contact with an image forming member 1a and a position where the tip end 3 of the toner scraping member 2 is apart from the image forming member 1a and fixed to the plate member 18, and a cleaning member 6 arranged on the path of the tip end 3 for the toner scraping member 2, the cleaning member 6 being operable to scrape off residual toner attached to the tip end 3 of the toner scraping member 2 when the tip end 3 moves along the path past the cleaning member 6.