Adjustable foot, in particular a rear foot, for an electric household appliance

An adjustable foot for an electric household appliance, in particular a rear foot for a washing machine, comprising a body integrally fastenable to a casing of the electric household appliance, a stem carried by the body so as to vertically slide, floor resting means associated with a lower end of the stem, first screw means operatively associated with the stem and provided with anti-rotation means cooperating with the body, a toothed wheel carried by the body so as to be coaxial to the stem and idle about a substantially vertical symmetry axis of the latter, second screw means operatively associated with the toothed wheel and cooperating with the first screw means for vertically translating the stem in response to a rotation of the toothed wheel, and control means for the toothed wheel;

• characterized in that the toothed wheel is axially mounted with a clearance between opposite first and second abutting means of the body, which is provided with elastic axial biasing means cooperating with the toothed wheel and arranged at the first abutting means, the latter facing towards an end length of the first screw means having a thread height gradually decreasing towards the elastic axial biasing means.