A stapler is a mechanical device that connects sheets of paper or other materials together by pushing a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding the ends. Government, business, offices, workplaces, residences, and schools all utilize staplers.

The term “stapler” can refer to a variety of various devices with distinct functions. Staplers can be used in a medical environment to connect tissue together using surgical staples to seal a surgical incision, in addition to attaching paper sheets together (much in the same way as sutures).

The majority of staplers are used to connect several sheets of paper together. There are two types of paper staplers: manual and electric. Hand-held staplers are the most popular. However, versions that can be used while sitting on a desk or on other surfaces are also widespread. Electric staplers are available in a number of styles and types. Their main job is to connect a huge number of paper sheets together in a short amount of time. Some electric staplers have the capacity to connect up to 20 sheets at once. Staplers are often third-class levers.

George McGill was granted a U.S. patent for a tiny, flexible metal paper fastening in 1866, which was a forerunner to the contemporary staple. He was granted a patent for a press to insert the fastener into paper in 1867. He demonstrated his innovation during the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and worked on it and other paper fasteners throughout the 1880s. C. H. Gould received an English patent for a stapler in 1868, and Albert Kletzker of St. Louis, MO, patented a device as well.

Some belief Henry R. Heyl to be the creator of the modern stapler since he filed patent number 195,603 in 1877 for the first machinery to both insert and clinch a staple in one process. Heyl also filed patents for the Novelty Paper Box Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia, PA, in 1876 and 1877. However, the inventions of the N. P. B. Manufacturing Co. were to be used to staple boxes and books.

In 1878, the first machine to hold a magazine with numerous pre-formed staples was released.

George McGill acquired patent 212,316 for the McGill Single-Stroke Staple Press on February 18, 1879, making it the first commercially successful stapler. This gadget weighed more than two pounds and was equipped with a single 1/2-inch diameter wire staple that could be driven through multiple sheets of paper.

In an advertisement in the American Munsey’s Magazine in 1901, the word “stapler” was first used to describe a machine for attaching papers with a thin metal wire.

Several systems that punctured and folded papers to attach them to each other without using a metallic clip were created and patented in the early 1900s. From 1909 until the 1920s, the Clipless Stand Machine (manufactured in North Berwick) was popular. It snipped a tongue out of the paper and tucked it in. A comparable cutting and weaving method was utilized in Bump’s New Model Paper Fastener.

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