Patent ID: 7083125

Claim:
A detachable tube assembly, comprising: a first tube having at least one of a radial aperture and a radial projection; a second tube capable of telescoping into an end of the first tube, the second tube also having at least one of a radial aperture and a radial projection along a portion of the second tube that is capable of telescoping into said end of the first tube such that a radial projection along one of the tubes can extend into a radial aperture along the other of the tubes; a rod extendable along the second tube, the rod having a radial flexible barb adjacent a distal end of the rod, the flexible barb being sized and dimensioned to pass through the telescopable portion of the second tube while being flexed radially inwardly by the second tube, and then flex radially outwardly when the barb has passed through that telescopable portion, such that a portion of the second tube adjacent the telescopable portion thereof can limit return movement of the barb back through the second tube; and a guide linked to the rod to move therewith which extends radially outwardly there from.