A developer for an image forming apparatus includes a developing casing
having a plurality of toner chambers to contain toner, an agitator having
a resilient wing and rotatably disposed in the toner chamber for
agitating and transferring toner, a toner supplying roller rotatably
disposed adjacent to one of the toner chambers of the developing casing,
a developing roller for transferring and attaching the toner supplied
from the toner supplying roller to a photoconductive medium, and a
partition disposed in the developing casing to separate the two toner
chamber. The partition has a plurality of slits at a center potion to
transfer toner from one toner chamber to another toner chamber
therethrough, while the agitator rotates. Also, the partition has a rib
sloped upward at a predetermined angle from a lower portion of the slit.
While the agitator rotates, the resilient wing of the agitator
resiliently contacts with the rib so as to splash the toner upward. The
toner being splashed then drops due to gravity and moves through the
slit.