Hinge for doors
AssigneeNUOVA STAR S.p.A.
InventorMarco VANINI
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Abstract
Described is a hinge for doors of electrical household appliances, including a first lever and a box-shaped element pivoted to each other and movable relative to each other in a tiltable fashion, fixable one to a frame and the other to a door of an electrical household appliance, to make the door movable relative to the frame between a closed position and an open position, a first elastic element connected to the first lever and designed to generate, with a relative deformation, an elastic reaction force designed to compensate at least partially the weight force of the door during the opening or closing of the door, a damping member housed inside a containment cartridge.
Claims10
A hinge for doors of electrical household appliances, comprising:
- a box-shaped element having a main direction of extension,
- a first lever pivoted on said box-shaped element by means of a pivot;
- one of either the box-shaped element or the first lever being fixable to a frame of an electrical household appliance and the other of either the box-shaped element or the first lever being fixable to a door to make the door tiltably movable relative to the frame between a closed position and an open position,
- a first elastic element positioned outside said box-shaped element, operatively connected to said lever and designed to generate with a relative deformation an elastic reaction force designed to compensate at least partially the weight force of the door during the opening or closing of the door,
- a damping member for applying a damping action during the reciprocal motion of said first lever and said box-shaped element, at least in the proximity of the closed position,
- a cartridge for containing said damping member, wherein said containment cartridge is positioned externally projecting from said box-shaped element and interposed between said box-shaped element and said first elastic element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.