Patent ID: 7287746

Claim:
A device in a process engineering column for the guiding of liquid, said device including at least two parts made of sheet metal and releasably connected to one another, characterised in that a recess is arranged in one of said parts and an elevation is arranged in the other of said parts, said elevation being elastically fitted into said recess to form a latched click connection; and in that said two sheet metal parts are held in a secured position by a hook connection between said recess and said elevation, with said recess and said elevation forming at least a single pair, and said sheet metal parts having planar regions lying on top of one another in the neighborhood of said pair and further characterised in that a second elevation in the shape of a shallow hoop and lying within a planar neighboring region is arranged in said other sheet metal part and a tab of said one sheet metal part is pushed in between said hoop and said planar neighboring region.