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  2. Stapler - Wikipedia

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    A stapler is a mechanical device that joins pages of paper or similar material by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding the ends. Staplers are widely used in government, business, offices, workplaces, homes, and schools. [1] The word "stapler" can actually refer to a number of different devices of varying uses.

  3. Staple (fastener) - Wikipedia

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    A heavy duty office staple might be designated as F1667 STFCC-04: ST indicates staple, FC indicates flat top crown, C indicates cohered (joined into a strip), and 04 is the dash number for a staple with a length of 0.250 inch (6 mm), a leg thickness of 0.020 inch (500 μm), a leg width of 0.030 inch (800 μm), and a crown width of 0.500 inch ...

  4. Stud welding - Wikipedia

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    Stud-welded anchors on a bridge girder. Drawn arc stud welding joins a stud and another piece of metal together by heating both parts with an arc. The stud is usually joined to a flat plate by using the stud as one of the electrodes. The polarity used in stud welding depends on the type of metal being used. Welding aluminium, for example, would ...

  5. Morris Abrams - Wikipedia

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    Abrams was the first generation of his family to be born in the United States. [citation needed]Arrow brand staple gun.. In 1929, [1] Morris Abrams founded Arrow Fastener. At first, he sold staples for staplers currently on the market, [citation needed] but by 1940 he had received his first stapler patent, [2] and by 1943, was assigning his patents to Arrow Fastener, [3] a process he continued ...

  6. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    The skin staple remover is a small manual device which consists of a shoe or plate that is sufficiently narrow and thin to insert under the skin staple. The active part is a small vertical blade that, when hand-pressure is exerted, pushes the staple down through a slot in the shoe, deforming the staple open into an 'M' shape to facilitate its ...

  7. Stud finder - Wikipedia

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    A stud finder (also stud detector or stud sensor) is a handheld device used with wood buildings to locate framing studs located behind the final walling surface, usually drywall. While there are many different stud finders available, most fall into two main categories: magnetic stud detectors and electric stud finders.

  8. Knob-and-tube wiring - Wikipedia

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    Ceramic bushings protected each wire entering a metal device box, when such an enclosure was used. Loom, a woven flexible insulating sleeve, was slipped over insulated wire to provide additional protection whenever a wire passed over or under another wire, when a wire entered a metal device enclosure, and in other situations prescribed by code.

  9. Electrical connector - Wikipedia

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    The insulating sleeve of insulated connectors has a color that indicates the wire's cross-section area. Colors are standardized according to DIN 46245: Red for cross-section areas from 0.5 to 1 mm²; Blue for cross-section areas from 1.5 to 2.5 mm²; Yellow for cross-section areas over 4 to 6 mm²