[ noun ] a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together <noun.artifact>
Stapler \Sta"pler\ (-pl[~e]r), n. 1. A dealer in staple goods.
2. One employed to assort wool according to its staple.
3. A device used to drive a staple[8] into objects so as to fasten them together. [PJC]
A surgeon at Trinity Medical Center in Minot, N.D., was making an incision with a disposable surgical stapler when he accidentally cut off the tips of the baby's index and middle fingers, hospital President Terry Hoff said Saturday.
Instead of the traditional stapler or folder for those bulky theme papers, there's now a desktop plastic binding machine.
It stakes Ethicon's claim to getting to the market first with a hernia stapler, but he adds, "this isn't the product the market is waiting for."
Hunt Manufacturing Co., which makes art supplies and office products, said it completed its previously announced acquisition of ACCO World Corp.'s stapler business and related assets for $13 million.
Frank Von Holzhausen, Group Four principal, says stapler design hasn't changed much since the late 1950s.