Connection device for valves and valve arrangement equipped therewith

A connection device for valves, with a connection body extending along a main axis, which connection body has several consecutive valve mounting stands in direction of the main axis, on which valves can be or are mounted, and which connection body is provided with at least one row of several consecutive receiving recesses likewise in direction of the main axis, which receiving recesses are transverse to the main axis and leading to a common connection surface of the connection body, which receiving recesses communicate with connection body channels passing into the connection body and into which suitable connection units can be or are inserted for connecting fluid lines, the inserted use position of which can be detachably fixed to the connection body by locking means having at least one U-shaped locking bracket, wherein the locking means contain at least two locking channels at a transverse distance from one another and aligned parallel to one another, which locking channels extend along the main axis in the connection body and in so doing each transversely penetrate at least several receiving recesses of the at least one row of receiving recesses, in which locking channels the U-shaped locking bracket can be or is inserted, longitudinally displaceable, wherein the locking bracket can assume a lock position in which it reaches through several of the consecutive receiving recesses simultaneously and is in locking engagement with the connection unit inserted therein by preventing withdrawal thereof.