Domestic appliance comprising detent elements and detent counter-elements

A domestic appliance comprising:

• a first housing section having a latching means;
• a second housing section having a counter-latching means, the latching means and the counter-latching means being engageable with one another in a housing assembled condition in which the first housing section and the second housing section are assembled together with one another, the latching means and the counter-latching means, when in engagement with one another, resisting a movement of the first housing section and the second housing section to disconnect from one another, and the latching means being disposable between a cinch position in which the latching means engages the counter-latching means in a manner such that the latching means and the counter-latching means resist a movement of the first housing section and the second housing section to disconnect from one another, and an uncinched position in which the latching means is no longer in an engagement with the counter-latching means so as to resist the respective movement of the first housing section and the second housing section to disconnect from one another;
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• a locking element, the locking element having a first end supported on one of the housing sections and a second end engaging the latching means, the locking element being disposable between a prevent position in which the locking element engages the latching means to resist a movement of the latching means from its cinched position to its uncinched position and a release position in which the locking element does not resist a movement of the latching means from its cinched position to its uncinched position to the same degree as such a movement is resisted in the prevent position of the locking element.