Patent ID: 8220841

Claim:
A connection device for a plug connection of at least one media line, comprising: a housing part having at least one reception orifice for connecting to the at least one media line, the housing part also having a clamping ring which is arranged in the reception orifice and engaged with an inner cone of the housing part for the detention of a plug portion, the housing part further including a basic part and an insert part, the insert part releasably connected with a form fit within the basic part via a latching connection, the insert part having the inner cone for engaging the clamping ring, wherein the latching connection holding the insert part releasably within the basic part is formed by a C-shaped spring clip which is manually releasable and seated on an exterior surface of the basic part and which engages with latching extensions radially through orifices on the basic part into a circumferential latching groove of the insert part, so that the insert part is a rotationally symmetrical part which can be inserted in the basic part in any desired rotary orientation; wherein the C-shaped spring clip comprises a C-shaped annular portion and two latching extensions lying essentially diametrically opposite one another, the latching extensions having oblique faces on their front sides facing a plug-in side of the reception orifice, in such a way that, when the insert part is being introduced into the basic part, the latching extensions are urged radially outward via the oblique faces and subsequently latch into the latching groove, the connection device being suitable both for direct connection to the at least one media line by a cylindrical line part thereof being plugged into the reception orifice and for indirect connection of a media line via the reception orifice.