US 12,140,883 B2
Toner container having a toner port shutter interface
Emily Stefano Adams, Lexington, KY (US); Brian Lester Boettcher, Versailles, KY (US); Brian Lee Hawes, Lexington, KY (US); Brittany Nicole Sexton, Lexington, KY (US); Edward Lynn Triplett, Lexington, KY (US); and Glen Alan Reidhaar, Lexington, KY (US)
Assigned to Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US)
Filed by LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC., Lexington, KY (US)
Filed on May 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/143,938.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/449,643, filed on Mar. 3, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0295839 A1, Sep. 5, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0886 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0865 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toner container for use with a developer unit of an image forming device, comprising:
a body having a top, a bottom, a first side and a second side positioned between a front and a rear of the body, the front of the body leads during insertion of the toner container into the image forming device and the rear of the body trails during insertion of the toner container into the image forming device, the body has a reservoir for holding toner;
an outlet port on the bottom of the body and adjacent to the front of the body for exiting toner from the toner container; and
an engagement surface at the bottom of the body and adjacent to the front of the body for contacting and pushing open a developer shutter of an inlet port of the developer unit in a direction of insertion of the toner container into the image forming device during insertion of the toner container into the image forming device.