What are Stainless Collated Staples?
I received an interesting question in my stainless steel inbox the other day. Someone wrote to ask me what stainless collated staples were and was it true that these are the same things that we use in our staplers at work every day? While the writer of that letter was right on the mark, stainless collated staples are what we put into our desktop stapler; I thought it might be interesting to walk you through a brief history about how collated stainless staples came about. There is a lot more behind those staples than you might realize. In the movie Office Space (20 th Century Fox, 1999) one of the subplots of this classic movie about life working in an office has the character of Milton obsessing over his red Swingline stapler. Though we can’t be sure if Milton was a stainless steel fan like the rest of us, we do know that he used collated staples in his Swingline. However, that wasn’t always the case. Before the days of collated staples the first handmade stapling machine was developed
