When was stapler invented

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Safety Recall Info. Warranty Claims. Some modern desktop staplers make use of Flat Clinch technology. With Flat Clinch staplers, the staple legs first pierce the paper and are then bent over and pressed absolutely flat against the paper — doing away with the two-setting anvil commonly used and making use of a recessed stapling base in which the legs are folded.

Accordingly, staples do not have sharper edges exposed and lead to flatter stacking of paper — saving on filing and binder space. The dominant US manufacturer is Swingline. In fact, a red Swingline stapler was one of the stars of the movie Office Space.

Click here to cancel reply. Each staple bore the royal seal, and the King could use the device to hold his decrees and documents together. The history and development of staplers had begun. As paper become widely available in the 19 th century, people needed better a way to hold it together.

In , George McGill got the first patent for a bendable brass paper fastener. He showed his invention at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Competitors C. Gould who got an English patent and Albert Kletzker who got another patent in the U.

Henry Heyl received a patent for the first stapler that could both drive the fastener through paper and clinch it to hold in Invented by the Novelty Manufacturing Company, it could bind paper together with a binder that was like a staple.

Around the same time, an inventor named George McGill received a patent for a paper fastener that was bendable. The next year, in , he received a patent for a machine that would press this fastener through paper. His stapler hit the market for the first time in Even then, unfortunately, stapling was still a labor-intensive process because it had to be constantly reloaded. This was invented by the E. Hotchkiss Company and it used a long strip of bendable staples that were wired together.

It was such a popular invention, in fact, that people referred to a stapler as a Hotchkiss. Many inventors were receiving patents for their own variations of stapling technology.

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