Patent ID: 6913296

Claim:
A closing device for a door of an electric household appliance, said closing device comprising: an elastic element; a latch, which is adapted to be fitted to the door to rotate, in opposition to said elastic element, about an axis of rotation, and adapted to cooperate with a catch fixed to the electric household appliance; and a switch device adapted to be activated by said latch for disabling operation of the electric household appliance when the door is open; said latch comprising, in an eccentric position with respect to the axis of rotation, a first constraint member for said elastic element, and a second constraint member adapted to be fitted to the door; said elastic element being extensible along a work axis connecting said first and second constraint members and lying at all times in a plane perpendicular to a plane containing the axis of rotation of said latch; and said latch selectively assuming, by virtue of the action of said elastic element, a first position and a second position, in which said latch does not-directly activate and, respectively, does directly activate a contact element of said switch device, and in which said work axis of said elastic element is located on opposite sides of said axis of rotation of said latch; wherein said latch further comprises a hook-shaped end adapted to directly engage with the catch of the electric household appliance when the door is closed, and said hook-shaped end of said latch is located on the same side of said work axis in both said first and second positions; said closing device further comprises a supporting member fittable to the door and supporting said latch, said elastic element, and said switch device; said second constraint member is fitted to said supporting member; said latch is fitted in rotary manner to said supporting member, and is housed inside a seat defined, on the side facing the catch in use, by a through opening through which the catch moves to engage/release said hook-shaped end of said latch; and said latch is mounted idly on two coaxial pins defining said axis of rotation.