US Patent Issued to Elbi International on April 14 for "Household appliance with emergency opening and emergency opening device" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,203, issued on April 14, was assigned to Elbi International S.p.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Household appliance with emergency opening and emergency opening device" was invented by Fabrizio Promutico (Turin, Italy) and Felice Paglia (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a household appliance, such as a washing machine (1) and the like, comprising a chassis (2), a door (12) hinged to said chassis (11) for closing an opening (130), and at least one door-lock device (2), close to said door (12) to lock said door (12) closed, and comprising a reset lever (23) configured to unlock said door-lock device (2) t...