Patent ID: 8382216

Claim:
An electric household appliance comprising an outer box casing having, on a front face, an opening for access to the inside of the appliance; and a door fixed to the box casing by a hinge located adjacent a peripheral edge of said opening and designed to allow the door to rotate to and from a closed position, in which a body of the door rests on the front face of the box casing, thus closing the opening; said electric household appliance being characterized in that said hinge of the door comprises a first anchoring plate fixed to the body of the door, a second anchoring plate fixed firmly, in a removable manner, to the box casing, and a connecting rod having two ends which are hinged in freely rotating manner to respective said anchoring plates so as to rotate, with respect to said plates, about two parallel axes of rotation; said second plate being designed to be fixable to said box casing selectively and alternatively in two distinct positions on opposite sides of said opening; and said connecting rod being designed to engage said second plate firmly, in a removable manner, and to allow the door to rotate to and from said closed position regardless of the position of said second plate on said box casing among said two distinct positions.