EP0859079B1 - Charnière pour une porte d'un appareil électroménager, en particulier pour machine à laver ou séchoir à linge - Google Patents
Charnière pour une porte d'un appareil électroménager, en particulier pour machine à laver ou séchoir à linge Download PDFInfo
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- EP0859079B1 EP0859079B1 EP98200440A EP98200440A EP0859079B1 EP 0859079 B1 EP0859079 B1 EP 0859079B1 EP 98200440 A EP98200440 A EP 98200440A EP 98200440 A EP98200440 A EP 98200440A EP 0859079 B1 EP0859079 B1 EP 0859079B1
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
- E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
- E05D3/00—Hinges with pins
- E05D3/06—Hinges with pins with two or more pins
- E05D3/12—Hinges with pins with two or more pins with two parallel pins and one arm
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
- D06F39/00—Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00
- D06F39/12—Casings; Tubs
- D06F39/14—Doors or covers; Securing means therefor
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
- E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
- E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
- E05Y2900/30—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for domestic appliances
- E05Y2900/312—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for domestic appliances for washing machines or laundry dryers
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- the present invention refers to a hinge for electrical appliance door, particularly for laundry washing and/or drying appliances, such as washing machines, washing-drying machines, dryers, in particular of the type with front loading.
- Appliances for washing and/or drying laundry in particular the ones with front loading, comprise a frame with a front panel in which there is an opening acceding to the washing/drying tank, and a door or window that can be open to allow the access to the tank itself.
- the window is hinged to the frame in such a way as to be rotatable around a vertical axis.
- a strongly felt problem is to provide the maximum possible accessibility to the washing tank in order to facilitate the operations of loading and unloading the laundry. To this purpose, one must in fact consider that these electrical appliances are often located in narrow rooms.
- Another route consists in intervening on the appliance window to improve its manoeuvrability.
- the window is mounted onto a front panel of the frame by means of a hinge housed behind of the same front panel.
- the hinge comprises one or more arms rigidly connected to the window and turnable around a vertical axis of rotation steady with respect to the appliance frame.
- the opening angle of these windows is therefore rather limited, and in any case smaller than 180 degrees, problem that reduces the accessibility to the washing tank, especially in consideration of the fact that the window generally comprises a concave central part of glass that when the window is open hinders the access to the tank.
- hinges that allow an opening angle of the window of 180 degrees; these hinges however require the interruption of the window frame, fact that has an impact on the aesthetics of the appliance.
- EP-A-0616069 discloses an electrical appliance as defined in the preamble of claim 1.
- An object of the present invention is to provide for a hinge for an electrical appliance door, particularly for laundry washing and/or drying machine, allowing an opening angle of the window of 180 degrees without compromising the aesthetic features of the electrical appliance.
- Figure 1 schematically shows a washing machine or a washing-drying machine or even a drier machine of the type with front loading, comprising a frame 1 having a front panel 2 in which an opening for the access to the washing/drying tank is provided; such opening is closed by a window 3 hinged to the front panel 2 in such a way as to be rotatable around a vertical axis to allow the access to the washing tank.
- An unlocking button 4 is provided for the opening of the window 3.
- Figure 1 there is also schematically shown, with dots and dashes, the volume of a possible additional piece of furniture 5 set near the washing machine.
- FIG. 2 The sectional view of Figure 2 brings out in detail the features of the present invention.
- the frame 1 of the washing machine inside of which the washing/drying tank 6 is housed and, inside the tank 6, a basket 7 to load the laundry.
- the front panel 2 Frontally to the frame 1 the front panel 2 is mounted.
- the window 3 that comprises a concave central part 8 of glass, and an annular frame generally of plastic material comprising an external ring 9 and an internal counter-ring 10 snap mounted on the ring 9 in such a way as to fasten an annular flange 11 of the central part 8 of glass.
- the front panel 2 is generally made of a substantially plane metal sheet that is bent along the edges in such a way so as to form vertical flanges 12 that are then welded in a number of points to corresponding vertical flanges 13 of the frame 1.
- a hinge 15 shown in elevation in Figure 4 is housed.
- the hinge 15 comprises substantially two parallel horizontal brackets 16 connected at one fore end by a vertical flange 17.
- a respective arm 18 is hinged, having substantially the shape of a portion of spiral.
- the two arms 18 are hinged to the respective brackets 16 by means of a single vertical pin 22 extending for the entire length of the hinge 15; as an alternative, it is possible to replace the single pin 22 with two half pins of minor length.
- two openings 20 are created that allow the passage of the other end 21 of the arms 18.
- Helicoidal springs 26 bias the arms 18 clockwise, to a position of extension of the ends 21 outside the openings 20 (position shown in Figure 3).
- the hinge 15 is housed in the interspace formed between the frame 1 and the front panel 2 of the machine.
- the two brackets 16 have dimensions and profile suitable to be housed, with a minimum clearance, inside the aforementioned interspace, and they extend up to the bent edge of the panel 2; the flange 17 is fixed, for example by means of two pairs of screws 23, 24, to the inside wall of the panel 2.
- a first pair of screws 23 fixes the flange 17 to the panel 2 in correspondence of a drawn region of the same
- the second pair of screws 24 fixes the flange 17 to the panel 2 in correspondence of an edge of the opening provided in the same for the access to the washing tank 6
- the fixing of the flange 17 in correspondence of the drawn region more rigid, guarantees a better solidity and a minor deflection to stresses during the opening of the window
- the brackets 16 extend up to the end of panel 2, contrasting against the flange 12 of the same, the hinge 15 results to be fixed more steadily to the frame 1.
- the ends 21 of the arms 18 are not connected stiffly to the window 3, but they are instead themselves hinged to the frame of the window 3.
- a vertical seating 25 for a pin 27 is created which extends for the entire height of the hinge 15 and is inserted in respective through holes provided in the ends 21 of the arms 18.
- two seatings 30 are provided suitable to accommodate turningly the ends 21 of the arms 18; the latter are provided with respective flaps 31, clearly visible in Figures 2 and 3, that when the window is close (as shown in Figure 2) are housed in the respective holes 32, closed above and below, of the seatings 30.
- the window When the window is close, condition shown in Figure 2, the arms 18 are almost totally retracted, and the flaps 31 are housed in the respective holes 32.
- the window is generally provided with a latch to keep it closed. To open the window, the user must press the button 4 to determine the release of the latch. Once the latch is released, the springs 26 bias the window to open at least partially, in such a way as to ease getting hold of the window itself by the user in order to open the window further.
- the hinge 15, having two different and independent axes of rotation, allows a wide range of rotating movements of the window, in addition consenting an opening angle of 180 degrees of the same, as shown in Figure 3. It is possible for example to initially rotate the window clockwise only around pin 22 by a certain angle A ( Figure 8), even sharp, and then continue the opening operation rotating the window only around the pin 27: in this way the window draws a trajectory T1 characterised by a minor volume encumbrance than that of the trajectory T2 that the window would draw if only the rotation around the pin 22 were possible.
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Claims (10)
- Appareil domestique électrique comprenant un châssis (1) muni d'un panneau vertical avant (2) qui a une ouverture d'accès à une chambre interne (6) de l'appareil domestique électrique et une porte (3) destinée à fermer l'ouverture, la porte (3) étant couplée au panneau (2) par une charnière (15), dans lequel la charnière (15) comporte une partie (16, 17) montée à demeure sur le panneau (2) et au moins un bras (18) couplé à une première extrémité (19) à la partie fixe (16, 17) de manière qu'il puisse tourner autour d'un premier axe vertical (22) et à une seconde extrémité (21) vers la porte (3) d'une manière telle que la porte (3) peut tourner autour d'un second axe (27) pratiquement parallèle au preier axe (22), la seconde extrémité (21) du bras (18) ayant un trou de passage d'une broche (27) délimitant un second axe et la porte (3) étant munie d'un siège (25) destiné à loger la broche (27), caractérisé en ce que la porte (3) est maintenue fermée par un loquet qui peut être libéré par application d'une pression à un bouton de déblocage (4), en ce que la partie fixe (16, 17) comporte un dispositif élastique (26) de rappel du bras en rotation (18) dans le sens d'ouverture de la porte (3) afin que la porte (3) soit partiellement ouverte lorsque le loquet est libéré, et en ce que la seconde extrémité (21) du bras (18) possède un volet en saillie (31) et la porte (3) est munie d'un siège (30) destiné à loger le volet (31) d'une manière qui empêche le pivotement de la porte (3) autour du second axe (27) dans l'étape initiale d'ouverture de la porte (3).
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la partie fixe (16, 17) est fixée à une paroi interne (14) du panneau (2).
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que la partie fixe (16, 17) de la charnière comporte un flasque (17) pour la fixation à la paroi interne (14) du panneau (2), et au moins une équerre (16) montée à demeure sur le flasque (17) et remontant vers un bord du panneau à l'intérieur d'un espace intermédiaire compris entre le panneau (2) et le châssis (1).
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que le flasque (17) est fixé à la paroi interne (14) du panneau (2) d'une manière qui correspond au moins à une région emboutie du panneau (2) ayant une concavité tournée vers l'avant de l'appareil et qui entoure l'ouverture.5.
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce qu'un bras au moins (18) a une forme pratiquement spiralée, et, dans le flasque (17), une ouverture (20) est formée afin qu'elle permette le passage de la seconde extrémité (21) du bras (18).
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la porte comporte une partie centrale (8) d'une matière transparente entourée par un cadre (9, 10, 28), la seconde extrémité (21) du bras (18) étant articulée sur le cadre de porte (9, 10, 28).
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la partie fixe (16, 17) de la charnière comporte une paire d'équerres (16).
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le bras au moins (18) est constitué d'une paire de bras.
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il constitue un lave-linge.
- Appareil domestique électrique selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il constitue une machine de séchage.
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ITMI970326 | 1997-02-17 | ||
IT97MI000326A IT1290335B1 (it) | 1997-02-17 | 1997-02-17 | Cerniera per sportello di elettrodomestico,particolarmente per macchina di lavaggio e/o ascigatura di biancheria |
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EP0859079A1 EP0859079A1 (fr) | 1998-08-19 |
EP0859079B1 true EP0859079B1 (fr) | 2002-06-05 |
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IT1317134B1 (it) | 2000-03-08 | 2003-05-27 | I T W Fastex Italia Spa | Dispositivo di comando per un'apparecchiatura elettrica in particolare per un asciugatore o altro elettrodomestico |
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US7581414B2 (en) | 2002-01-09 | 2009-09-01 | Lg Electronics Inc. | Door for washing machine and dryer and washing machine and dryer having the same |
KR20040046915A (ko) * | 2002-11-28 | 2004-06-05 | 엘지전자 주식회사 | 드럼세탁기의 도어 힌지 어셈블리 |
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CN100432332C (zh) * | 2003-06-17 | 2008-11-12 | 乐金电子(天津)电器有限公司 | 烘干机的门 |
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WO2006131709A1 (fr) * | 2005-06-08 | 2006-12-14 | John Herbert North | Perfectionnement pour lave-linge |
US7617570B2 (en) | 2006-03-22 | 2009-11-17 | Whirlpool Corporation | Double-pivot, constrained kinematic hinge for a front-loading laundry machine |
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