Patent ID: 7985197

Claim:
A therapeutic-substance carrying/administering appliance, comprising: a cylindrical outer sheath; a slide member positioned within said cylindrical outer sheath to be slidable in an axial direction; a sheet supporting member connected to a distal end of said slide member and made of a resilient material, said sheet supporting member supporting a sheet-shaped therapeutic substance, wherein said sheet supporting member is held in a flat unrolled shape in a free state in which said sheet supporting member projects outwardly from a distal end of said cylindrical outer sheath, wherein, when said sheet supporting member is in said free state, sliding said slide member in a retracting direction into said cylindrical outer sheath causes said sheet supporting member to come in contact with said distal end of said cylindrical outer sheath, and subsequently further moving said slide member in said retracting direction causes said sheet supporting member to be retracted into said cylindrical outer sheath while being deformed into a tubular shape, and a surface of said sheet supporting member being provided with a surface treatment that supports said sheet-shaped therapeutic substance, wherein said surface treatment comprises an adhesive layer having an adhesive force that temporarily fixes said sheet-shaped therapeutic substance to said sheet supporting member; and a connecting member positioned between said sheet supporting member and said slide member, wherein a flat support surface of said connecting member contacts a portion of said sheet supporting member.