The design for this stapler was patented in the United States in 1934 by Fridolin Polzer who was at the time working for E.H. Hotchkiss Company, a leading manufacturer of stapling machines, based in Norwalk, Connecticut. In Japanese, the word for “stapler” is “hotchikisu” after the E.H. Hotchkiss Company, which first shipped staplers to Japan in 1910. However this stapler’s patent (Des. Pat. 1,983,397) is not assigned to a particular manufacturer. Therefore Polzer likely developed and sold t...
Oct 2017 »The design for this stapler was patented in the United States in 1934 by Fridolin Polzer who was at the time working for E.H. Hotchkiss Company, a leading manufacturer of stapling machines, based in Norwalk, Connecticut. In Japanese, the word for “stapler” is “hotchikisu” after the E.H. Hotchkiss Company, which first shipped staplers to Japan in 1910. However this stapler’s patent (Des. Pat. 1,983,397) is not assigned to a particular manufacturer. Therefore Polzer likely developed and sold t…