Patent ID: 8096016

Claim:
A holder for holding a stick-shaped body so as to advance the body, comprising: an outer barrel of a substantially tubular shape and having an inner surface; an inner barrel of a substantially tubular shape, arranged within the outer barrel, and having an outer surface; and at least one urging member arranged between the outer and the inner barrels and adapted to exert an urging force on the inner barrel relative to the outer barrel in a predetermined direction, wherein the holder is adapted to perform a back and forth operation in which the inner barrel is moved against the urging force by an external force and reverts to the previous position by the urging force thereafter, the back and forth operation being adapted to advance the body placed within the inner barrel, wherein the urging member has a plurality of bent portions, the portions being deformable to generate the urging force, and wherein the inner surface of the outer barrel and the outer surface of the inner barrel each has at least one flat face, the urging member being arranged between the flat faces of the both surfaces, wherein substantially the entire urging member resides in a single plane.