Heating tool and heat-pressing machine

A heating tool for heating a heating object while being pressed against a surface thereof, comprising:

• a housing which serves as a main body of the heating tool;
• a cover which is provided at a tip of the housing and moves forward and backward relative to the housing to be switched between a normal position and a retracted position in which the cover is retracted from the normal position toward the housing;
• a biasing member that is attached to the cover and biases the cover toward the normal position;
• and
• a heating member that is provided inside the cover and is exposed from an opening at a tip of the cover in accordance with the forward and backward movement of the cover,
• wherein the heating tool presses the tip of the cover against the surface of the heating object so that the cover is retracted to the retracted position and the heating member is brought into contact with the surface of the heating object through an opening of the cover.