Patent ID: 8382298

Claim:
A lens cap apparatus removably mounted on a camera lens having an attachment end, the lens cap apparatus comprising: a lens cap adapter ring having first and second ends ,the second end of the adapter ring adaptable for engagement with an attachment end of a camera lens; an annular groove carried intermediate the first and second ends of the adapter ring, the annular groove completely encircling an inner surface of the adapter ring in a circumferentially entending plane; a lens cap having an endwall; and a pair of latch members movably carried on the lens cap for movement between a first radially outward, latching position and a second radially inward unlatching position, each latch member having a user engageable surface and a spaced latch finger removably engageable with the annular groove in the adapter ring when the latch members are in the first latching position to mount the lens cap on the adapter ring.