![]() ![]() Leave your stapler on your desktop? Well, it won’t be long until dust and other pollutants collect on the mechanisms and start affecting the operation of your stapler. Oops! Spilled a little coffee on your stapler? You may have ruined it and when you try to clean it out the parts will likely rust and become forever sticky. The internalizing of the mechanics may not seem important, but previous fasteners such as your Acme No 2, your Parrot Speed Fastener Babe, your Hotchkiss 1A, your Arrow A44, your Markwell RX-45, and yes, even your Boston Wire Stitcher model B1 ( see note 1) were all open to the elements and all the issues that comes with that. ![]() Do you see it? No? The B5 staple carrier, push assembly, push spring, and the staples themselves are all 100% internal to the stapler. But while the design is one thing, there is another aspect that sets the B5 above all previously manufactured staplers. But what it really represented when introduced was the future of staplers.Īnd that is exactly what the B5 is, the design and mechanical antecedent to which all modern staplers are ultimately based on. It looks the part of a strictly industrial tool, like an evolutionary forebear to more modern staplers. The black crackle enamel, the geometric design with the closest thing to a curve being some 45 degree angles it’s almost Brutalist in its design aesthetic (although technically Modernist). To modern eyes, the Bostitch B5 stapler doesn’t seem all that special. ![]()
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