Vacuum Cleaner

A vacuum cleaner having a housing wall having a suction opening, wherein the vacuum cleaner comprises:

• a wall having an opening wherein the wall is capable of being connected to the housing wall of the vacuum cleaner to support the opening of the wall external to, and at a spacing from, the housing wall of the vacuum cleaner;
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• a connector detachably connected to the housing wall of the vacuum cleaner and having a connecting piece and an end piece, the connector delimiting a bore having one open end and an opposite open end, the connecting piece of the connector being located adjacent the one open end of the connector and the end piece of the connector being located adjacent the opposite open end of the connector, the connector being disposable into an installed condition, in which the connector extends between, and is supported by the wall and the housing wall of the vacuum cleaner with the connecting piece of the connector engaging the wall and the end piece of the connector extends through the suction opening of the vacuum cleaner into an interior housing volume delimited by the housing wall of the vacuum cleaner, the suction opening of the vacuum cleaner, the bore of the connector, and the opening being communicated with one another, the end piece of the connector including a sealing lip that extends circumferentially around the connector, the sealing lip of the end piece engaging an outside surface of the housing wall of a vacuum cleaner and restricts movement of the end piece of the connector further into a suction opening of the vacuum cleaner, and the connecting piece of the connector extending through the opening in the wall in the installed condition of the connector and engaging the wall to resist displacement of the connecting piece from the wall.