Patent ID: 8646816

Claim:
Apparatus comprising an electromechanical locking device on an oven appliance and an oven appliance door, the locking device further comprising a lock ( 1 ) on a side of the oven appliance and a hook ( 2 ) on a side of the door, wherein a first bolt ( 3 ) and a second bolt ( 4 ) are arranged in the lock ( 1 ) and are positioned to engage the hook from opposite sides of the hook ( 2 ), wherein the second bolt ( 4 ) further comprises a locking lever ( 6 ) on one side of the hook and a locking pawl ( 7 ) connected to the locking lever, and wherein said bolts are configured to sequentially engage the hook from the one side and then from a second side so as to make possible closing the door in an intermediate latched stage and in a main latched stage and to sequentially disengage the hook when opening the door from the main latched stage to the intermediate latched stage.