EP1741378B1 - Dispositif de retenue, en particulier pour une porte d'un appareil électrique domestique - Google Patents

Dispositif de retenue, en particulier pour une porte d'un appareil électrique domestique Download PDF

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EP1741378B1
EP1741378B1 EP06116787.0A EP06116787A EP1741378B1 EP 1741378 B1 EP1741378 B1 EP 1741378B1 EP 06116787 A EP06116787 A EP 06116787A EP 1741378 B1 EP1741378 B1 EP 1741378B1
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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
    • D06F37/00—Details specific to washing machines covered by groups D06F21/00 - D06F25/00
    • D06F37/42—Safety arrangements, e.g. for stopping rotation of the receptacle upon opening of the casing door
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L15/00—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware
    • A47L15/42—Details
    • A47L15/4251—Details of the casing
    • A47L15/4257—Details of the loading door
    • A47L15/4259—Arrangements of locking or security/safety devices for doors, e.g. door latches, switch to stop operation when door is open

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  • the present invention relates to a retaining device, in particular for a door or flap of a domestic electrical appliance, such as a washing machine.
  • the invention relates more particularly to a retaining device of the type comprising:
  • Retaining devices of this type are known in which it is possible to open the door by actuating an appropriate handle or grip when the door locking device is in the rest position.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a retaining device of the above-described type which is adapted to enable, when the door locking device is in the rest position, the door to be pulled open, i.e. by manually exerting traction directly thereon.
  • a retaining device of the type described above characterised in that the hook member is mounted in the support structure such that it is movable in translation along a guided path between a retracted position and a forward position, respectively close to and remote from the appliance, and is adapted to oscillate about a moving axis at right angles to said path, the hook member being associated with resilient recall means tending to maintain it in the retracted position and in a predetermined angular rest position, the arrangement being such that
  • a retaining device of the invention comprises a hook device, shown overall by 1, adapted to be secured to a door D, for instance of a domestic electrical appliance such as a washing machine, as shown, for instance, in Fig. 5 .
  • the hook device 1 comprises a support structure shown overall by 2 in which a hook member 3 projecting partially outside this structure is mounted to oscillate.
  • the self-retaining device of the invention further comprises a door locking device, shown overall by 4 in these Figures.
  • This door locking device 4 is of a type known per se, for instance of the type disclosed in European Patents EP 0 965 677 B1 and EP 1 276 947 B1 and in the European Patent Application EP 1 304 436 A1 in the name of the Applicant.
  • the door locking device 4 is secured to a domestic electrical appliance A, for instance a washing machine, so that it faces an opening 5 provided in a wall 6 of this appliance A.
  • the door locking device 4 comprises a slider 7 which may move in translation (horizontally when looking at Figs. 5 to 7 ) relative to a support housing 8 secured to the wall 6.
  • the slider 7 may occupy a rest position, shown in Fig. 5 , in which one of its end openings 7a faces and is aligned with the opening 5 of the wall of the domestic electrical appliance.
  • a helical spring 9 ( Figs. 5 and 7 ) tends to maintain the slider 7 in this position in which, as can be seen from the sequence of Figs. 5 and 6 , it enables the hook member 3 to be inserted through the opening 5 of the domestic electrical appliance A so that this hook member 3 may be engaged with a retaining formation 6a provided in the vicinity of the opening 5.
  • the support structure 2 of the hook device 1 is advantageously made from stamped plastics material and has respective substantially vertical eyelet slots 10a and 10b at two facing lateral ends 2a and 2b (see Fig. 2 in particular).
  • the upper ends of the slots 10a and 10b have an arcuate, substantially semi-circular, profile.
  • the support structure 2 comprises a base wall 2c in which an opening 11 is provided, through which the hook member 3 extends (see Figs. 3 and 5-7 in particular).
  • the hook member 3 has a substantially S-shaped general configuration, with an upper end arm 3a and a lower end arm 3b.
  • the latter arm acts as a hook for engagement with the retaining formation 6a of the domestic electrical appliance A.
  • the end arms 3a and 3b of the hook member 3 are interconnected by an intermediate portion 3c ( Figs. 2 and 3 ).
  • Two opposing projecting transverse formations, shown by 12a and 12b, project from opposite sides in the upper portion of this intermediate portion 3c. These projecting formations, which, overall, form a kind of pin of the hook member 3, are engaged in the slots 10a and 10b of the support structure 2, as can be seen in Figs. 1 and 4 in particular.
  • the proximal portions of the projecting formations 12a and 12b have respective transverse lugs shown by 12c and 12d in these Figures (see Fig. 4 in particular).
  • the hook device 1 further comprises a double flexion spring (double pin spring) shown overall by 13 and comprising two sections or portions 13a and 13b. These sections or portions of the spring 13 are disposed on opposite sides with respect to the hook member 3 ( Figs. 1 to 4 ) and have respective lower arms 14a and 14b ( Figs. 2-4 ) which act on the base wall 2c of the support structure 2, and respective upper arms 15a and 15b interconnected by an intermediate arm 16. As shown in Figs. 2 to 4 , the intermediate arm 16 and the upper arms 15a and 15b of the double spring 13 form, overall, a kind of U which embraces the intermediate portion 3c of the hook member 3 below the projecting formations or pins 12a and 12b and the relative lugs 12c and 12d.
  • a double flexion spring double pin spring
  • the spring 13 tends, overall, to maintain the hook member 3 in the retracted position shown in Figs. 1 and 3-6 , in which its projecting formations or pins 12a and 12b are urged against the upper arcuate ends of the associated guide slots 10a and 10b of the support structure 2.
  • the engagement of the upper arms 15a and 15b of this spring 13 with the formations 12a, 12b and the relative lugs 12c, 12d is such that, in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 to 6, the hook member 3 is retained in a predetermined angular rest position.
  • the hook member is mounted in the support structure 2 such that it may move in translation along a guided path defined by the slots 10a and 10b between the retracted position shown in Figs. 1 and 3-6 and a forward (and rotated) position shown in Fig. 7 which will be described in detail below.
  • the hook member 3 may also oscillate about the axis of its projecting formations or pins 12a and 12b, which axis is at right angles to the translation path defined by the slots 10a, 10b and which, like the hook member 3 itself, may move along this path.
  • the recall spring 13 tends, overall, to maintain the hook member 3 in the retracted position of Figs. 1 and 3-6 and in the angular rest position shown in these Figures.
  • the retaining device described above substantially operates as follows.
  • the hook member 3 thus enters and passes through the opening 5 of the domestic electrical appliance A and penetrates into the opening 7a of the slider 7.
  • this member 3 is caused to oscillate by the recall spring 13 into its angular rest position so that its end 3b engages below the retaining formation 6a as shown in Fig. 6 .
  • the slider 7 moves a certain distance in translation (towards the left starting from the position of Fig. 5 ) against the action of the spring 9.
  • the position shown in Fig. 6 is a stable position, in which the door D is held, but not locked, in the closed position.
  • the wall 2d of the structure comes into abutment against the end 3a of the hook member.
  • the subsequent displacement of the door D and the support structure 2 in practice causes the hook member 3 to oscillate (in the anticlockwise direction looking at Fig. 7 ) about its pin formations 12a and 12b, again against the action of the spring 13.
  • the end 3b of the hook member 3 is disengaged at a certain point ( Fig. 7 ) from the retaining formation 6a and passes through and leaves the opening 5 of the wall 6 of the appliance A enabling the door D to return to the open position.
  • a further advantage of the solution of the invention lies in the resilient thrust exerted by means of the spring 13 which opposes, with appropriate pre-loading, the thrust of the seal associated with the door of the domestic electrical appliance, ensuring appropriate mechanical sealing of the system.
  • the door may be "pulled” open by rotating the hook member, as a result of which the opening force is not affected.
  • the device of the invention is particularly suited to use in washing machines, of both the top-loading and front-loading types.
  • the device of the invention is particularly advantageous in so-called "large door” applications in which emergency opening of the door from inside has to be possible.

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  1. Dispositif de retenue (1, 4) en particulier pour une porte (D) d'un appareil électrique domestique (A) tel qu'une machine à laver, comprenant :
    une structure de support (2) adaptée pour être fixée à la porte (D) et dans lequel est monté un élément de crochet (3), faisant saillie au moins partiellement à l'extérieur de cette structure (2), pour osciller, et
    un dispositif de verrouillage de porte (4) adapté pour être fixé dans l'appareil électrique domestique (A) faisant face à une ouverture (5) prévue dans l'appareil (A), et comprenant une glissière (7) qui est mobile en translation et qui est adaptée pour occuper une position de repos dans laquelle elle permet l'insertion et la mise en prise détachable de l'élément de crochet (3) avec une formation de retenue (6a) associée avec ladite ouverture (5), de sorte que la porte (D) est retenue mais pas verrouillée dans la position fermée, et une position verrouillée dans laquelle la glissière (7) empêche le dégagement de l'élément de crochet (3) de la formation de retenue (6a) et verrouille la porte dans la position fermée,
    le dispositif étant caractérisé en ce que l'élément de crochet (3) est monté dans la structure de support (2) de sorte qu'il est mobile en translation le long d'une trajectoire guidée (10a, 10b) entre une position rétractée et une position sortie, respectivement, proche et à distance de l'appareil (A) et est adapté pour osciller autour d'un axe mobile (12a, 12b) en angle droit par rapport à ladite trajectoire (10a, 10b), l'élément de crochet (3) étant associé à des moyens de rappel élastiques (13) ayant tendance à le maintenir dans la position rétractée et dans une position de repos angulaire prédéterminée,
    l'agencement étant tel que
    - lorsque la porte (D) est fermée, l'élément de crochet (3) se met en prise avec la formation de retenue (6a) de l'appareil (A), oscille autour de l'axe (12a, 12b) contre l'action des moyens de rappel élastiques (13), sortant de la position de repos mais restant dans la position rétractée, et entre ainsi et traverse l'ouverture (5) et oscille ensuite, sous l'action des moyens de rappel élastiques (13), vers la position de repos et se met en prise avec la formation de retenue (6a), et
    - lorsque la porte (D) est poussée pour s'ouvrir alors que la glissière (7) du dispositif de verrouillage de porte (4) est dans la position de repos, l'élément de crochet (3), initialement retenu par la formation de retenue (6a), passe de la position rétractée à la position sortie, en raison du déplacement relatif de la structure de support (2), et oscille autour de cet axe (12a, 12b) contre l'action des moyens de rappel élastiques (13), se dégageant de la formation de retenue (6a) et traversant ainsi et sortant de l'ouverture (5) de l'appareil (A).
  2. Dispositif de retenue selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la structure de support (2) a une paire de fentes de guidage en regard (10a, 10b) dans laquelle des formations en saillie (12a, 12b) se présentant sous la forme de broches de l'élément de crochet (3), se mettent en prise de sorte qu'elles peuvent se déplacer en translation et tourner.
  3. Dispositif de retenue selon la revendication 2, dans lequel l'élément de crochet (3) a une configuration générale sensiblement en forme de S, avec un premier bras d'extrémité (3a) qui est espacé par un élément de butée (2d) de la structure de support (2) lorsque l'élément de crochet (3) est dans la position rétractée et dans la position de repos angulaire et qui peut venir en butée contre l'élément de butée (2d) après un déplacement relatif initial de la structure de support (2) lorsque la porte (D) est poussée pour s'ouvrir, l'élément de crochet (3) comprenant en outre un second bras d'extrémité (3b) adapté pour coopérer, en fonctionnement, avec la formation de retenue (6) de l'appareil électrique domestique (A).
  4. Dispositif de retenue selon la revendication 2 ou 3, dans lequel les moyens de rappel élastiques comprennent au moins un ressort de flexion (13a, 13b) avec un bras d'extrémité (14a, 14b) qui agit sur la structure de support (2) et avec un autre bras d'extrémité (15a, 15b) qui agit sur l'élément de crochet (3).
  5. Dispositif de retenue selon la revendication 4, dans lequel les moyens de rappel élastiques comprennent un double ressort de flexion (13) comprenant deux sections ou parties (13a, 13b) avec des premiers bras (14a, 14b) respectifs qui agissent sur la structure de support (2) et des seconds bras (15a, 15b) respectifs qui sont interconnectés et qui agissent sur l'élément de crochet (3).
  6. Dispositif de retenue selon la revendication 4 ou 5, dans lequel les moyens de rappel élastiques (13) agissent sur les formations en saillie ou broches (12a, 12b) de l'élément de crochet (3).
  7. Dispositif de retenue selon la revendication 6, dans lequel les formations en saillie (12a, 12b) de l'élément de crochet (3) comprennent des pattes transversales (12c, 12d) respectives contre lesquelles les moyens de rappel élastiques (13 ; 13a, 13b) réagissent également.
EP06116787.0A 2005-07-08 2006-07-07 Dispositif de retenue, en particulier pour une porte d'un appareil électrique domestique Not-in-force EP1741378B1 (fr)

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