Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag

Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.v.

Stefano Morandini

Andrea De Pellegrin

Rodolfo Marcuz

Fernando De Luca

Alberto Bas

A laundry appliance having a cabinet accommodating a laundry treatment chamber and a storage drawer adapted to slide into the cabinet along a first direction. The storage drawer comprises a drawer body and a drawer handle. The drawer handle is connectable with the drawer body in a releasable way through a coupling arrangement. The coupling arrangement comprises drawer body sliding means arranged on the drawer body, and drawer handle sliding means arranged on the drawer handle and adapted to slidingly engage with the drawer body sliding means for allowing the drawer handle to move with respect to the drawer body. The drawer body and drawer handle sliding means extend along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and parallel to a top surface of the cabinet so as to allow the drawer handle to be detached from the drawer body by a lateral movement along said second direction.

Drawer for laundry appliance

A household appliance () has a drawer (), a user interface element () and a light group () having a plurality of light elements (). The light elements () are disposed substantially peripherally with respect to the user interface element (). The light group () is arranged on a side of the user interface element () opposite to the drawer ().

Household appliance with a user interface element

A household appliance () has a frontal panel () with a front side () facing the outside of the appliance () in an assembled state and a rear side () opposite to the front side () facing the interior of the appliance () in an assembled state and with an aperture (). The appliance further has a cover element () covering the aperture () on the front side (), and a receptacle () arranged on the rear side () behind the aperture (). The receptacle () has a sealing element () which in an assembled state is in contact with the covering element (), thereby providing a sealed space between the cover element () and the sealing element ().

Household appliance

A laundry treatment device () includes a casing () housing a laundry treatment chamber () and including a front wall () defining an outward-facing continuous-wall front surface (), the front wall () having a laundry opening () to load and/or unload said laundry treatment chamber (), a panel aperture () and a drawer aperture (). The panel aperture () and the drawer aperture () are separated one from the other by a crosspiece (). The crosspiece has an outward-facing crosspiece front surface (). A control panel assembly () is provided for controlling operation of the laundry treatment device (). The control panel assembly () includes an outer dashboard () which is structured to be coupled to the front wall () at the panel aperture () and to be operated by a user. A drawer () is provided as well as a drawer seat () to house the drawer (). The drawer seat is fixed or fixable to the front wall () at the drawer aperture () so that the drawer () is coupled in a retractable manner to the front wall (). Outer dashboard () and/or the drawer seat () includes a cover surface () located externally to the casing () in front of the crosspiece front surface (), so as to cover the latter when the laundry treatment device () is in an assembled configuration.

Laundry treatment device having a control panel assembly

A laundry treatment device () includes a casing () with a front wall () defining a continuous front surface (). The front surface () has a laundry opening () to load and/or unload a laundry treatment chamber () contained in the casing (). The casing () includes a panel aperture () having an edge defining a closed curve. A control panel assembly () is provided for controlling operation of the laundry treatment device (). The control panel assembly includes an outer dashboard () which is structured to be coupled to the front wall () at the panel aperture () and to be operated by a user. The outer dashboard includes a dashboard external portion (). The portion () is, in an assembled configuration, external to the casing, visible and accessible to a user. A drawer () is provided as well as a drawer seat () to house the drawer. The drawer seat is fixed or fixable to the front wall so that the drawer is coupled in a retractable manner to the front wall (). The drawer seat () is an integral piece of the external dashboard portion () forming an outer dashboard assembly ().

The control-panel assembly () for household appliances and the like, includes: an outer dashboard (), and at least one rigid protecting box (). The outer dashboard () is provided with at least one protruding appendix () that sticks out of its rear face () and that has a coupling ridge () provided with a number of consecutive coupling segments () that are tilted relative to one another. The protecting box () is provided with a corresponding cap appendix () dimensioned for resting onto the top of the protruding appendix (), and which has at least one coupling portion () which is shaped for stably matching with any one of the consecutive coupling segments () of the coupling ridge () of the protruding appendix (). This allows a discrete adjustment of the spatial orientation of the protecting box () with respect to the rear face () of the outer dashboard ().

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San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy

Stefano Morandini