US 12,239,273 B2
Cover assembly for mounting in a domestic dishwasher
Albert Dirnberger, Neunburg vorm Wald (DE); Johann Kleber, Nabburg (DE); Matthias Bauer, Schmidgaden (DE); and Georg Spießl, Altendorf (DE)
Assigned to EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & CO. KGAA, Nabburg (DE)
Filed by emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA, Nabburg (DE)
Filed on May 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/737,096.
Claims priority of application No. 102021112035.7 (DE), filed on May 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0354336 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A47L 15/42 (2006.01); A47L 15/44 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 15/4265 (2013.01) [A47L 15/4263 (2013.01); A47L 15/44 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cover assembly for mounting in a domestic appliance, the cover assembly comprising a pivoting cover which is mounted on a support component and is to close an opening,
wherein the pivoting cover includes a cover part and a closure part which is movable relative to the cover part,
wherein the cover part has sealing faces which, on closing of the pivoting cover, come into sealing contact with sealing counter-faces encircling the opening,
wherein there are formed on the closure part engagement formations configured to be brought, in a closed pivot position of the pivoting cover, into and out of holding-closed engagement with engagement counter-formations by relative movement between the closure part and the support component,
wherein the cover part is mounted on the closure part and is supported via the closure part on the support component,
wherein a sealing element is arranged on the cover part,
wherein the sealing element forms at least part of the sealing faces or of the sealing counter-faces and has a pair of flexibly deflectable radial sealing lips which are offset axially with respect to an axis of revolution normal to a plane of revolution of the sealing element and extend in a same radial direction, and
wherein on closing of the pivoting cover, the two radial sealing lips come into sealing contact with a step profile which surrounds the opening and is formed by a cover plate part and which has two radially inwardly projecting axial shoulders.