1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a stapler with a binding scale-plate, which belongs to office stationery. It is installed with a binding scale-plate which is retrieved to the stapler base when not used and rolled out when used, and the length of the binding scale-plate is greater than the width of the base. This invention is specifically designed to solve the problems resulting from the lack of effective reference of current staplers, such as: two or more staples are not on the same binding line, and not parallel to a binding edge and differ in distance to binding edge; the distance from staples to the paper edge does not fulfill the binding request.
2. Description of Related Art
Stapler is mainly composed of the binding institution, the base, the staple distortion part. Most of the current staplers are not designed with binding scale-plate which has the function of reference in binding. A few kinds of staplers have binding baffles. But these baffles are too short and without ruler so they cannot function as reference of site restriction and distance. Therefore, the applicant submitted a patent application on “a stapler with binding baffle” (201310697760.8) to the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China on Dec. 8, 2013, and two patent applications on “a stapler with binding scale-plate” (201410362505.2, 201410451420.1) on Jul. 28th and Sep. 7th in 2014. Since these are all same technology solutions on this problem, I have merged them together in order to submit international patent application.
Most of the current staplers are not designed with a binding scale-plate which has the function of reference in binding. The lack of effective reference of current staplers has resulted in the following problems: two or more staples are not on the same binding line, and not parallel to a binding edge and differ in distance to a binding edge; the distance from staples to the paper edge do not fulfill the binding request. This invention is specifically designed to solve these problems. With the premise of not changing the main structure of current staplers, this invention is equipped with a scale-plate which can be rolled out when used and whose length is greater than the width of the base, thus providing users with the function of restricting binding sites and measuring distance.
Technology solutions of this invention: a binding scale-plate is designed on the base of the stapler, which can be a single unit or assembled unit. The binding scale-plate is installed on the stapler base via a rotation axis. It is retrieved to the stapler base when not used and when used, it is rolled out to one side of the base at a 90-degree angle along the rotation axis. In this way, a scale-plate is formed, with the length greater than the width of the base; this will serve as reference for determining binding sites of staples for users. The described binding scale-plate can be designed to be a slab whose length is greater than the width of the base and width smaller than or equal to that of the base, and the rotation axis is fixed in an appropriate position on the base, such as near the staple distortion part. The rotation axis can be designed into a circular ring shape with its diameter longer than the largest diagonal length of the staple distortion part and fixed in the outside of the staple distortion part, while the staple distortion part is within the circular ring of the ring-shaped rotation axis so that the binding scale-plate can be rolled out from the base with the rotation axis as the center to pick up the paper and provide reference for determining the binding sites. The binding scale-plate is comprised of an upper scale-plate and a lower scale-plate which are overlapped when not used and when used, respectively roll out around the rotation axis to the left and right sides of the base at a 90-degree angle to form a binding scale-plate. A track can be designed on the base for the rotation axis to slide forward and backward along the base, and the rotation axis is installed on track, so that the binding scale-plate can move forward and backward on the base with the sliding of the rotation axis, in which way, the distance between binding line and paper edge can be adjusted neatly. The binding scale-plate can be installed on or beneath the base, so two long notches must be designed on both long sides under the base to let the binding scale-plate roll out from the base. When the binding scale-plate can move forward and backward on the base, a baffle can be designed on the binding scale-plate to retain the paper, which can be a bulgy beam on the binding scale-plate or axially connected to the binding scale-plate; the baffle overlaps on the binding scale-plate when not used, and rolls up at a 90-degree angle to be vertical with the binding scale-plate when used, thus possible to retain the paper. The binding scale-plate can be composed of two symmetrical rulers, a left scale-plate and a right scale-plate. A slide is designed on the base and is fixed on the track of the base. The left and right sides of the slide are symmetrically installed to the left and right rotation axes. The left binding scale-plate is connected to the left rotation axis and the right binding scale-plate to the right rotation axis. The left binding scale-plate is retrieved to the left of the base while the right binding scale-plate to the right when not used, and the left binding scale-plate rolls out to the left front along the left rotation axis at a 90-degree angle and the right binding scale-plate to the right front along the right rotation axis at a 90-degree angle when used to form a binding scale-plate. Similarly, the left and the right binding scale-plates both can be designed on and beneath the base. When on the base, the left and right sides of the upper surface of the two long sides of the base can be designed with a symmetrical long notch respectively, while the middle part of the upper surface is a long girder to form a track for the slide to move on the base. The left binding scale-plate is installed in the left notch and the right binding scale-plate in the right notch. The left binding scale-plate can be designed with a left baffle while the right binding scale-plate with a right baffle. The baffles can be bulgy beams on the surfaces of the left and right binding scale-plates or rotatable baffles axially connected to the left and the right binding scale-plates. When the left and the right binding scale-plates are beneath the base, the track can be designed into a new part and installed under the base. The two long sides of the bottom of the base are equipped respectively with a long notch to ensure the left and the right binding scale-plates to roll out from the bottom of the base. In such case, a left baffle which can freely slide upward and downward can be designed behind the left binding scale-plate, and a right baffle behind the right binding scale-plate. The left and the right baffles are behind the left and the right binding scale-plates when not used and when used, slide out upward to bulge from the upper surface of the base to achieve the function of retaining the paper. The above-mentioned stapler base and the binding scale-plate can both be designed with lengthwise graduation, and the binding scale-plate is designed with transverse graduation. The lengthwise graduation provides the users with the distance value between the binding line and the paper edge, while the transverse graduation offers users the distance value between the upper and the lower edges and the central point of staples.
By means of designing binding scale-plate in stapler, when users are binding files with two or more staples, they can determine the distance value and the parallel relationship between the binding line and the edge of the paper and measure the distance value between the upper and lower edge of the paper and the central point of the staple through the graduation line on the binding scale-plate, thereby binding will be more accurate and convenient; the binding baffle on the binding scale-plate can retain paper and thus neaten and fix paper, solving the mobility of paper when binding, thereby making the binding more rapid and precise; since the binding scale-plate can be retrieved under the base when not used, it won't change the integral structure of current staplers and influence the integral appearance, and the difficulty and cost of production are low.
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In order to use the same-length binding scale-plate as the third embodiment in ordinary small staplers, the binding scale-plate can be designed into two layers on the basis of the first and second embodiments. These two layers are overlapped when not used and when used, respectively roll out to the left and right sides of the base at a 90-degree angle respectively to form a binding scale-plate.
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Width of most stapler bases is 3 to 5 centimeters. The binding scale-plates designed according to the described embodiments can provide users with a binding line distance reference of 2 to 4 centimeters, while the distance of binding line is generally 1.75 centimeters for most paper edge binding; that is to say, the described embodiment has already satisfied most binding requests. But there also exists something not convenient: mainly because of the binding scale-plate is fixed but the distance of binding line is not, no baffle has been designed that can retain the paper. Therefore, during binding the parallel relationship between the binding line and the edge of the paper is determined by the users referring to the graduation lines on the binding scale-plate. The mobility of paper will result in that it is not easy to be accurate in determining the parallel relationship between the upper and lower staples and the edge of the paper edge and that the binding is not fast enough; what's more, the distance of binding line is limited, which cannot satisfy binding requests of a longer distance of binding line.
In order to solve the described problems, it is necessary to design a binding scale-plate whose location can be adjusted and design a baffle which can retain paper to make the binding more rapid and to satisfy more extensive binding requests.
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In order to have a longer binding scale-plate, the binding scale-plate that can move forward and backward on the base 2 may be installed under the base 2. Refer to
Since the binding scale-plate can move forward and backward on the base, the distance of the binding line can be adjusted thought adjusting the location of the binding scale-plate on the base. In this way, a baffle can be designed that can retain paper on the binding scale-plate. The baffle is paralleled with the binding line during binding. The parallel relationship between the binding line and the paper edge can be ensured simply by adjoining the paper with the baffle. Under the assistance of the baffle, the paper can be neatened and fixed, thus solving the mobility of paper when binding and making the binding more rapid and accurate.
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The length of an A4 official document paper is 29.7 centimeters. If two staples are used on the one third of the long side, the distance between the two staples and the upper and the lower paper edges will be about 10 centimeters respectively. As the length of the base of a current common stapler is about 12 to 14 centimeters, and the stapler designed according to the ninth embodiment has a longer binding scale-plate, the total length of whom can reach up to 10 to 12 centimeters, and the measured distance of the left and right sides is 5 to 6 centimeters, the measurement request of 10 centimeters cannot be satisfied. Therefore, the technology solution of designing overlapped left and right binding scale-plates is proposed as follows.
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Similarly, the left and the right binding scale-plates can be designed beneath the base: Refer to
By comparing the figures, it can also be shown that the stapler base 2 and the binding scale-plate 4 of these embodiments of this invention can be designed with lengthwise graduation 17, and the binding scale-plate 4 is designed with transverse graduation 18. The lengthwise graduation 17 takes the central point of the deformation groove of the staple distortion part as the start point scale 0 and provides users with the distance value between the binding line and the edge of the paper. The transverse graduation 18 takes the central point of the deformation groove of the staple distortion part as the start point scale 0 and offers users the distance value between the upper and the lower paper edges and the central point of staples. Refer to
This invention adequately considers the humanization request of industrial design, achieving beautiful appearance, reliable structure and simple operation, and expanding the function of staplers without changing people's habit when binding with a stapler; this invention increases the standardization of file binding, and satisfies the technology request of binding a file with two or more staples, making the binding more accurate and rapid, enhancing the efficiency of office work and realizing great practicability; without changing the integral structure of the current staplers, the binding institution of this invention employs the current general units, and the new part has the advantages of simple structure, low performance index requirement, basically all can use of plastic materials, the production of technical is low-difficulty, low cost, and favorable for popularization.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201310697760.8 | Dec 2013 | CN | national |
201410362505.2 | Jul 2014 | CN | national |
201410451420.1 | Sep 2014 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/CN2014/090403 | 11/6/2014 | WO | 00 |