Patent ID: 8881337

Claim:
A windscreen wiper device, comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, which can be placed in abutment with a windscreen to be wiped, which wiper blade includes at least one groove, in which groove a longitudinal strip of the carrier element is disposed, wherein said windscreen wiper device further comprises a mounting head for transferring a reciprocal movement to said wiper blade, and a connecting device for detachably connecting said wiper blade directly to said mounting head though a bayonet connection, wherein said connecting device covers a first terminal end of said longitudinal strip and is positioned substantially adjacent to one end of said wiper blade to engage said mounting head substantially adjacent said end of said wiper blade, wherein an end cap covers a second terminal end of said longitudinal strip, wherein said connecting device and said end cap are connected to said wiper blade at opposite ends thereof, wherein said connecting device comprises at least one resilient tongue of said bayonet connection engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole of said bayonet connection provided in said mounting head, and wherein said resilient tongue is allowed to be pushed in against said spring force to allow for sliding of said connecting device away from said mounting head in order to release said wiper blade from said mounting head.