Patent ID: 8695933
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: A47L,D06F

Abstract:
1. An adjustable foot for an electric household appliance, comprising: a body integrally fastenable to a casing of the electric household appliance, a stem carried by the body so as to vertically slide, a support element associated with a lower end of the stem, a first screw mechanism operatively associated with the stem and provided with an outer portion cooperating with the body, a toothed wheel carried by the body so as to be coaxial to the stem and idle about a substantially vertical symmetry axis of the stem, a second screw mechanism operatively associated with the toothed wheel and cooperating with the first screw means for vertically translating the stem in response to a rotation of the toothed wheel, and control mechanism for the toothed wheel; wherein the toothed wheel is axially mounted with a clearance between opposite first and second abutments of the body, which is provided with axially biasing elastic element cooperating with the toothed wheel and arranged at the first abutment, the second abutment facing towards an end length of the first screw means having a thread height gradually decreasing towards the axially biasing elastic element.