Telescope provided with automatically opening and closing cover

A binocular telescope provided with automatically opening and closing lens covers comprising:

• a main body comprising a pair of cylinders each having a forward end, a rear end, a central portion, and an outer peripheral portion;
• a lens hood slidably disposed along an outer peripheral portion of the main body, said lens hood having an inner surface and an outer surface, and being slidable toward the forward end and the rear end of said main body;
• a pair of objective lenses one of which is provided at a forward end of each of said cylinders;
• a pair of movable lens covers each having a side surface and disposed to cover in correspondence said objective lenses provided at the forward end of said cylinders, each of said lens covers being axially rotatably supported between said objective lenses;
• guide pins attached to said side surfaces of each of said lens covers;
• a pair of guide grooves provided on the inner surface of said lens hood into which said guide pins are slidably engaged to cause said lens covers to rotate into a closed position covering said objective lenses when the lens hood is slid toward the rear end of the main body, and into an open postion when the lens hood is slid toward the forward end of the main body, whereby said lens covers are automatically shunted out of the optical path of the central portion of the main body so as to serve as a central parting strip of said lens hood of the binocular telescope by a forward movement of the lens hood, and to automatically cover said objective optical lenses by rearward movement of said lens hood.