A medicine supply apparatus to discharge a medicine into packing paper having a nozzle for discharging a medicine from a tablet case and a shutter rotatably provided in the nozzle for openingclosing a medicine drop path. A covering hood reaches at least partly over and is fixed in place on the carrying framework and includes a frame skeleton having a rectangular roof frame and two rectangular side frames connected with the roof frame at their upper edge and releasably attached to the carrying framework with their lower edge. The sensing units are formed in the touch area. 5 wt % or less of the crosslinked polymer component. Preferably the following relationships are satisfied: \xbd Wg\u2266Wpg<Wg; and Wpg<Wp, where Wp, Wpg and Wg represent a width of the pre-pit, the width of the groove at the junction parts, and the width of the other part of the groove other than the junction parts, respectively.