Lens housing and lens cover for objective lens ring of an operating microscope

Claim 1

In a disposable microscope drape for positioning over an operating microscope in enclosing relationship thereto and comprising an elongate, continuous, substantially tubular drape open at one end and having a flexible, resilient, distortable, lens ring housing secured to and carried by the drape in a position of registry with an objective lens ring of the microscope, said housing having a central opening therethrough defining an inner wall to snugly receive said objective lens ring, said inner wall having an annular, lens cover retaining groove therein, an optically clear, distortion free lens cover snugly removably received at its outer periphery in said lens cover retaining groove in said lens ring housing in spanning relationship to said opening whereby to overlie the objective lens of said microscope, said housing having a radially extending recess therein extending from the inner wall to the outer surface thereof, and an outwardly extended manipulative handle on said lens cover which may be manually grasped to remove said cover from said housing without damaging said housing or disturbing the position of said housing when it is operatively positioned on the objective lens of a microscope, said handle received in said recess when said lens cover is positioned in said groove.