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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2003
Alberto Bassi, Turin, IT;
Alberto Bassi, Turin, IT;
ITW Industrial Components S.r.l., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A closing device for the door of an electronic household appliance has a latch fitted to the door to rotate, in opposition to an elastic element, about an axis of rotation, and to cooperate with a catch fixed to the electric household appliance. The latch activates a switch device disabling operation of the electric household appliance when the door is open. The latch has, in an eccentric position with respect to its axis of rotation, a first constraint member for the elastic element, and a second constraint member which is fitted integrally to the door. The elastic element is extensible along a work axis connecting the first and second constraint members and lies at all times in a plane perpendicular to the plane containing the axis of rotation of the latch. The latch selectively assumes, by virtue of the elastic element, a first position and a second position, in which it does not directly activate and, respectively, does directly activate the switch device, and in which the work axis is located above and, respectively, below the axis of rotation of the latch.