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Staples are made of thin metal wire. For consumer use, it is clipped, formed and then a light glue keeps the staple strip together before selling it to you. In publishing and high speed printing, it is kept as a spool of wire and is clipped and formed in the printer or finishing machine just as it is being stapled into the paper.
1870s ~ Individual Preformed Staples: The first desktop machine designed to fasten papers by inserting and clinching metallic staples was patented in 1877 (US. Patent No. 195,603). A number of the earliest machines held only one preformed wire staple at a time and had to be reloaded each time they were used.