Household appliance, especially water-bearing household appliance

Abstract

The invention relates to a household appliance, in particular a water-bearing household appliance, with a housing (3) providing a compartment (4) and having a loading opening (5) for accessing the compartment (4), with a door (6) rotatably mounted about a pivot axis for closing the loading opening (5), with a motor unit (14) and with a coupling device (15) which is operatively connected to the motor unit (14) on the drive side and to the door (6) on the output side, wherein the coupling device (15) is designed to be switchable and can be moved from a disengaged position to a coupled position and vice versa, characterized in that the coupling device (15) is configured to effect an automatic switching from the disengaged position to a coupled position in the case of operation of the motor unit (14), regardless of the direction of rotation of the motor unit (14).wherein the coupling device (15) has a switching element (24) arranged axially displaceable and non-rotatable on a shaft (23), which interacts with a first coupling element (25) of a freewheel coupling (17) and with a first coupling element (47) of an overload coupling.