stapler

Product Description

The first known stapler was handmade in the *8th century in France for King Louis XV. Each staple was inscribed with the insignia of the royal court, as required.[1] The growing uses of paper in the *9th century created a demand for an efficient paper fastener.[2]
 

In ***6, George McGill received U.S. patent *6,**7 [3] for a small, bendable brass paper fastener that was a precursor to the modern staple. In ***7, he received U.S. patent *7,**5[4] for a press to insert the fastener into paper. He showed his invention at the ***6 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and continued to work on these and other various paper fasteners through the ***0s. In ***8 a patent was also taken out for a stapler in England by C.H.Gould. As well, also in ***8, Albert Kletzker of St Louis, MO patented a device to staple paper.

In ***7 Henry R. Heyl filed patent number *****3 for the first machines to both insert and clinch a staple in one step,[5] and for this reason some consider him as the inventor of the modern stapler. In ***6 and ***7 Heyl also filed patents for the Novelty Paper Box Manufacturing Co of Philadelphia,PA,[6] However, the N. P. B. Manufacturing Co.'s inventions were to be used to staple boxes and books.

The first machine to hold a magazine of many preformed staples came out in ***8.

On February *8, ***9, George McGill received patent **2,**6[7] for the McGill Single-Stroke Staple Press, the first commercially successful stapler. This device weighed over two and a half pounds and loaded a single 1/2 inch wide wire staple, which it could drive through several sheets of paper.

The first published use of the word "stapler" to indicate a machine for fastening papers with a thin metal wire was in an advertisement in the American Munsey's Magazine in ***1.[2]

In the early ***0s, several devices were developed and patented that punched and folded papers to attach them to each other without a metallic clip. The Clipless Stand Machine (made in North Berwick) sold from ***9 into the ***0s. It cut a tongue in the paper that it folded back and tucked in. Bump's New Model Paper Fastener used a similar cutting and weaving technology.

In ***1 the type of paper stapler that is the most common in use today was developed: the four way paper stapler. With the four way, the operator could either use the stapler to staple papers to wood or card board, or used to staple like pliers for bags, or the normal way with two options, one the standard with the staples going inward or turning the plate and the staples going outward.[8]