Patent ID: 7766866

Claim:
A milk pump for pumping milk from a woman's breast, comprising: a breast hood for receiving a woman's breast; a support; an opening in said support for providing a suction communication to said breast hood; and a manual pumping unit which includes a substantially rigid wall forming and surrounding a displacement space, said displacement space defining a longitu-dinal axis and having a predetermined cross-sectional dimension, said wall comprising a front wall of said displacement space and a peripheral wall extending in a longitudinal direction; a suction unit displaceable in said displacement space substantially along said longitudinal axis to provide suction through said opening; an actuator for mechanically displacing said suction unit substantially in an axial direction; and a latch formed on said front wall for releasably connecting at least part of said wall to said support wherein the latch comprises at least one protrusion from the front wall in the longitudinal direction including at least one hook and at least one cylindrical protrusion formed on said front wall and the support includes a receiving plate including respective openings for the at least one protrusion.