Patent ID: 6854772
Filing Date: 2005-02-15
Classification: F16L

Abstract:
1. A plug connection for a conduit comprising: a plug receiving means having an opening for receiving a connecting plug portion, the plug receiving means including biasable latching portions in the opening operable to latch the connecting plug portion in the plug receiving means to secure it against an axially acting force, each said spring tongue portion comprising a respective pressure nose protruding radially outward therefrom, said plug receiving means further comprising an outside periphery and at least one latching projection at said outside periphery; and a securing sleeve on the plug receiving means and slidable axially thereon between a first receiving position and a second position, said pressure noses bearing under a biasing force against an internal wall surface of said securing sleeve when said securing sleeve is in its first position, thereby holding the latching portions in an inwardly disposed receiving and latching position in which the connecting plug portion can be inserted into said receiving means by elastically deforming said securing sleeve radially outward and latched in said plug receiving means, and the securing sleeve in its second position permitting the latching portions to move under their bias into a retracted open position, said securing sleeve further comprising latching grooves being co-operable with said at least one latching projection of said plug receiving means for fixing said securing sleeve in one of said first position and said second position.