The standard office stapler is a portable device typically used to drive a wire retention device into paper like products for the purpose of connecting multiple pages, one to the other. Once the wire has penetrated the material, a secondary function for deforming the wire into a retention form is accomplished (Bowmen).
The first fastening of papers is thought to of started in the 1200’s. However instead of medal wire to connect the paper together people used a textile ribbon that was passed through parallel incisions in the upper lift hand side. This method was followed by a ribbon wax combination. There where no attempt to improve this design until King Louis XV of France in the 1700’s. King Lois XV had a stapler built, but it still was no a modern stapler. It had spaces between the staples and the royal insignia (Bowmen).
In the 1800”s, cast iron stapler where introduced. These curded staplers only held one staple at a time. A little later in the early 1900 the modern stapler we known began to take shape. These were made from sheet metal and were called herringbone staples because there was a space between each staple in the strip (Bowmen).
Holding Track: The holding track is a trough like steel part intended to support the staples prior to insertion into the paper. This trough can be either internal or external to the staple. In the example shown, the track is external. The retention of the staple prevents side to side motion, but allows for easy forward motion and sequential delivery of staples to the striker position.
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