Patent ID: 6893050

Claim:
A plug-connectable vacuum cleaner pipe arrangement comprising a sleeve part which forms a socket into which a pipe insertion end can be axially inserted in an insertion direction and which can be held in a snap-locked condition releasably by locking means which on a side of the sleeve part is comprised of a locking body movable on the sleeve part and on the side of the pipe insertion end is formed by a detent recess provided in the pipe insertion and in which a detent body releasably engages, an actuating slider is axially shiftable on the sleeve part and which has a locking surface and is displaceable in two axially opposite axial directions starting from a neutral axial position of the locking surface against respective spring restoring forces, the locking surface holding the locking body in a locked position in the neutral axial position of the locking surface and with each shift out of the neutral axial position being displaced into an unlocking position, an end of the pipe insertion end having a first control surface which upon insertion of the pipe insertion end into the socket moves the locking body together with the sleeve part relative to the locking surface in a pipe insertion direction, thereby unlocking the locking body and freeing it for releasable snap locking into the detent recess which is juxtaposed with a second control surface which, upon withdrawal of the pipe insertion end from the socket moves the locking body together with the sleeve part relative to the locking surface in a withdrawal direction and thereby disengages, the actuating slider having a radially inwardly projecting substantially claw-like formation extending toward the sleeve part with a claw opening receiving a rod spring held on the sleeve part at a spring region deflectable in both opposite axial directions.