Patent ID: 8528995

Claim:
A household appliance, comprising: an appliance door; a container to receive goods to be treated, the container having a container opening that is closed by the appliance door; and a plurality of stiffeners associated, at least in sections, with the container opening, the plurality of stiffeners to increase the rigidity of the container in a region of the container opening, said plurality of stiffeners defining at least one delimiting side facing the interior of the container and proximal to the appliance door when the appliance door is in a closed position, and the plurality of stiffeners having a centering element by which the appliance door is aligned with the container opening when the appliance door is closed; wherein the plurality of stiffeners and the centering element are made of a uniform material and/or comprise a one piece plastic profile part, and wherein, when the appliance door is in the closed position, a gap dimension between the appliance door and the at least one delimiting side of the plurality of stiffeners is greater than a gap dimension between the appliance door and the centering element.