Patent ID: 6565123
Filing Date: 2003-05-20
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
A vacuum-cleaner wand comprising:an inner tube extending along an axis and formed with an axially extending row of radially outwardly open recesses; an outer tube engaged coaxially around the inner tube; a latch base part fixed to the outer tube and formed unitarily with an elastically deformable web carrying a latching block displaceable radially between an inner position engageable radially in the recesses and an outer position unengageable in the recesses, the web normally urging the block into the outer position, whereby in the inner position the tubes cannot move axially relative to each other, and a pair of limitedly elastically deflectable and radially outwardly projecting guide walls forming radially inwardly directed guide edges; and a movable latch part fitting over the base part and formed unitarily with a pair of limitedly elastically deflectable and radially inwardly projecting guide walls forming radially outwardly directed guide edges sliding on the radially inwardly directed guide edges of the base part, whereby in the outer position of the latching block the movable part can slide on the base part between axially offset latched and unlatched positions, and a radially inwardly projecting actuating bump bearing only in the latched position radially inward on the latching block and holding the block in the inner position and axially offset from and out of contact with the block in the unlatched position, whereby in the unlatched position the tubes can slide relative to each other.