Direct current electric actuator, in particular for electrical household appliances

A direct current electric actuator for devices for dispensing washing agents in washing machines or, dishwashers, comprising:

• a body formed by a single strip of ferromagnetic material, substantially U-shaped and including first and second lateral branches, facing each other and interconnected by an intermediate branch or portion;
• an essentially frustoconical formation of ferromagnetic material converging toward a region outside said body, said frustoconical formation being blind and having a planar distal bottom wall;
• a coil of insulated electrically conducting wire, fixed in said body such that an axis thereof extends in a direction substantially orthogonal to the lateral branches of said body;
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• a ferromagnetic core mounted so as to be movable with respect to said body in an axially translatable manner inside the coil, from a rest position to a working position, as an effect of the energising of the coil;
• one end of the core, facing towards said formation of ferromagnetic material, having a frustoconical shape essentially complementary to the internal shape of said formation;
• wherein said blind frustoconical formation is integrally formed with the first lateral branch of said body by stamping or drawing the single strip forming said body and extends in the region outside said body.