Patent ID: 7909938

Claim:
A washing-agent dispenser for a household washing machine, the dispenser comprising: a main casing, defining at least a container for a washing agent; a closing member of said container, which is able to assume an operative condition and an inoperative condition, in which said container is open or closed, respectively; where at least one of said main casing and said closing member comprises a respective rigid body, which is substantially rigid and made of a first material, to which respective sealing means are associated, made at least in part of a second substantially elastic or soft material; additional means, or functional complements, associated to the rigid body of at least one of said main casing and said closing member, which means or complements are at least in part elastic or yieldable, are functionally distinct with respect to said sealing means and are deformable in the course of use of the closing member; wherein said rigid body of the closing member comprises a main wall and a side wall, the main wall having a first face and a second face substantially opposite to one another, to the first face there being associated said sealing means and to one of the second face and the side wall there being associated at least one of said additional means; wherein said additional means comprise at least one of a manual gripping element and an attenuation or end-of-travel element; wherein said closing member comprises a door, whose rigid body is at least one of slidably mounted on, and hinged to, the main casing of the dispenser; and wherein at least one of: at said second face of the main wall at least one of a cavity, a recessed seat and a passage is formed in the rigid body of said door, in which a portion of one said gripping element or one said attenuation element is at least partially housed; at said side wall at least one of a cavity, a recessed seat and a passage is formed, in which a portion of one said attenuation element is at least partially housed; a plurality of attenuation elements is associated to one of said second face and said side wall; said gripping element forms said attenuation element, or vice versa; and at least one of said gripping element and said attenuation element projects at a front thereof from said main wall.