A staple device which is particularly adapted to be used with gypsum board workpieces or the like and which includes a head portion having a cross-sectional configuration defined by an advancing and trailing portion which is particularly adapted to distribute the load on the workpiece to preclude damaging the workpiece when the head is driven flush with the surface of the workpiece.

A stapler having a staple magazine 3 for storing adhesive-coated staples. The staple is bent at its legs by being firmly held between a pressing plate and a matrix anvil, heat from an electric heater inside the anvil is transmitted to the adhesive to fuse the adhesive, and documents are bound by the staple with enhanced adhesive strength.

A device for securing the root ball of newly planted trees and/or shrubs into proper position, for stabilizing the trees and/or shrubs to prevent shifting or toppling while the tree and/or shrub root systems are first developing. The device includes a horizontal cross member, and a series of prongs perpendicularly depending from the horizontal cross member. Two outer prongs are attached to the ends of the cross-member, and at least one, but preferable two or more shorter inner prongs are attache...

An anastomosis staple has a base from which multiple deformable tines extend. At least one tine may be offset from at least one other tine. The tines are moveable from a first configuration to a second configuration. The staple optionally includes at least one alignment guide.

A box-type staple pack (1) formed in accordance with planer dimensions of a staple sheet is provided with an upper face window (3), a bottom face window (4), and a rear face window (5) and is provided with a staple outlet (6) in a slit-like shape at a front face thereof. When the staple pack is charged to a staple cartridge, a pressing plate in the staple cartridge is brought into elastic contact with a lower face of the staple sheet via the bottom face window (4) and a whole staple pack (1) is ...

A surgical staple is made from highly flexible material and has at least two piercing projections or points spaced from each other a first predetermined linear distance in a generally unstressed, neutral and inoperative condition of the staple. The staple is stressed in a selected fashion causing the piercing projections to be spaced from each other a second predetermined linear distance greater than the first predetermined linear distance. While the piercing projections are spaced from each oth...

A staple remover of the type having opposed cam surfaces, with each jaw having a pair of spaced apart sides with cam surfaces, for pulling a staple from an object and having a bridge member on one of the sides that disposed across the opening between the two sides to provide a stop along the cam surface and to provide a gripping surface for pulling staples.

A device for removing staples from papers, cloth, or other material without tearing or mutilating the material. The device utilizes a heel of palm to finger gripping action to facilitate a more natural action for removing staples. Staples are extracted by way of a jaw which opposes a wedge-shaped piece (16) to an abutting plate piece (21), which straightens the staple while simultaneously pulling it out of the paper in a perpendicular direction. The wedge-shaped piece (16) includes a portion whe...

A generally U-shaped surgical staple comprises a base 10 and a pair of generally "L"-shaped legs 12 extending substantially perpendicularly from opposite ends of the base respectively. The legs 12 in use of the staple are bent through approximately 90.degree. relative to the base. To effect a greater compression of the stapled tissue the legs include a penetrative portion 16 adjacent the tip and a compressive structure 30 which, due to its increased height relative to that of the penetrative por...

A flat clip or staple is manufactured from a continuous strip of flat sheet material in coil form by first stamping out intermediate portions of material between each of the blanks to be formed into a discrete staple while retaining the blanks in the continuous strip. The strip is then subjected to a second stamping process where each discrete staple is severed from the strip, formed into the required shape and the excess waste material removed from the continuous strip. The second stamping proc...