Patent ID: 8246089

Claim:
A lock for a household appliance comprising a movable retaining element, which is configured as a slide biased by a biasing member, for interacting with a closure hook located on a closure element of the household appliance, which closure element can be moved between an open and a closed state, wherein the closure hook, in the closed state of the closure element, engages inside the retaining element, and is held inside the retaining element in contact against a blocking face such that a movement of the closure element into the open state is blocked, wherein the blocking face has a shaft for pivotably mounting the blocking face in a lock housing in the manner of a positive opener, wherein the blocking face is acted on at one side thereof with an elastic force in the movement direction of the closure hook, such that the blocking face, as a result of a force acting in the movement direction of the closure hook, is moveable at one side counter to the elastic force in such a way that a pivoting of the blocking face is permitted, and wherein the elastic force is generated by means of a spring.