Patent ID: 9567783
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: E05B,E05C,Y10T

Claim:
1. A self-resettable door locking device for an electric household appliance, the self-resettable door locking device comprising: a second supporting body configured to be integrally carried in use by a door of the electric household appliance; a first supporting body which is movably supported by the second supporting body; a latch pivotally carried by the first supporting body about a first rotation axis and operatively associated in use with a door catch of the electric household appliance and first elastic means secured to and interposed between the first supporting body and the latch to be adapted in use to make the latch selectively take first and second latch working positions, the second latch working position being a position of the latch corresponding to rotation of the latch away from the first latch working position by a first angle about the first axis; and second elastic means carried by the second supporting body and interposed between the latter and the first supporting body; wherein the first supporting body is normally kept by the second elastic means in a first working position of the first supporting body, in which a tooth of the latch is adapted to intercept/not intercept in use the door catch when the latch is in said first and second latch working positions, respectively, to respectively block/release the door when it is in a closed position, wherein the first supporting body is movable against the bias of the second elastic means towards a second working position of the first supporting body, in which the tooth of the latch is no longer adapted to intercept in use the door catch when the latch is in said first latch working position, and wherein in the first working position of the first supporting body, the latch is facing a seat of the second supporting body adapted to receive in use the door catch, whereas in the second working position of the first supporting body the latch is at least partially removed from said seat for receiving the door catch.