Door for a household appliance
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Abstract
The invention relates to a door for a household appliance that includes a door exterior structure, an outer-side decorative panel, and an interconnecting element. The outer-side decorative panel is spaced from the door exterior structure by a gap. The interconnecting element extends across the gap between the door exterior structure and the outer-side decorative panel and interconnects the outer-side decorative panel and the door exterior structure to one another. The interconnecting element has a first extending member that is received in the gap and a second extending member that is attached to one of an edge of the door exterior structure and an edge of the outer-side decorative panel.
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20 Claims
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11. A door for a household appliance, the door comprising:
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a.) a door exterior structure; b.) an outer-side decorative panel, the outer-side decorative panel being spaced from the door exterior structure by a gap such that, as viewed in a direction from an interior portion of the door toward the front of the door, the outer-side decorative panel forms at least a portion of the front of the door and the door exterior structure is further toward the interior portion of the door than both the outer-side decorative panel and the gap with the gap being intermediate the outer-side decorative panel and the door exterior structure and the outer-side decorative panel and the door exterior structure delimiting the gap such that the respective boundaries of the gap delimited by the outer-side decorative panel and the door exterior structure are substantially parallel to one another; and c.) an interconnecting element extending across the gap between the door exterior structure and the outer-side decorative panel and interconnecting the outer-side decorative panel and the door exterior structure to one another, the interconnecting element having a first extending member that is received in the gap and a second extending member that is attached to one of an edge of the door exterior structure and an edge of the outer-side decorative panel. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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Specification