Patent ID: 7503098

Claim:
In a vacuum cleaner combination including a vacuum cleaner, a suction tool and a pivotal and rotational connection arrangement between a suction opening of said suction tool and a vacuum port of said vacuum cleaner, an improvement wherein said pivotal and rotational connection arrangement comprises: a pivot element pivotably connected to said suction tool, wherein a coupling end of said pivot element has a first circumferential groove provided therein; a rotation element having a connection end that is removably connectable to said vacuum port of said vacuum cleaner, and a coupling end with a second circumferential groove provided therein; and a plurality of partial ring segment elements; wherein: said coupling ends are coupled together, with one of said coupling ends inserted in the other, so that said first and second circumferential grooves align and face one another to form of said grooves a circumferential channel; said partial ring segment elements are received in said circumferential channel to form of said partial ring segment elements a guide and connection ring that connects said pivot element and said rotation element with one another so as to allow relative rotation thereof; said pivot element or said rotation element has at least one opening that communicates into said circumferential channel, through which opening said partial ring segment elements can be inserted into and removed from said circumferential channel; and said pivot element and said rotation element form and enclose therein a continuous vacuum passage between said suction opening of said suction tool and said vacuum port of said vacuum cleaner.