Patent ID: 8544971

Claim:
A household appliance, particularly a refrigerating and/or freezing device, with at least one door, through which the interior of the device can be closed, and at least one door closure system that comprises the following components: at least one means of closure that moves the door into its closed position, at least one damping device that opposes a counterforce and thus dampens the door movement, at least one movable carriage connected with the closure system such that the means of closure is moved into a pre-tensioned state by the carriage when the door is opened, at least one interlocking component connected with the damping device and with the means of closure such that the means of closure can be fixed by the interlocking component in its pre-tensioned state, wherein the carriage and the interlocking component are designed such that they are coupled together by a first movement section of the door and are decoupled from each other by a second movement section of the door.