Patent ID: 8052022

Claim:
A stapler for dispensing staples from a staple rack having a front staple and a second staple, comprising: a body; a track to guide staples disposed within the body; a handle movably attached to the body; a striker to move staples out from the body; wherein the staple rack is positioned on the track such that the front staple is cantilevered from a front end of the track and the second staple is supported on the track behind the front staple, the front staple being positioned below the striker in a striker highest position; wherein the stapler undergoes a stapling cycle having two distinct stages, a leveraging stage, the leveraging stage including a location of the handle above the striker moving downward and the striker also moving downward in proportion to motion of the handle, the location of the handle moving substantially faster than the striker in relation to the body, and after an end of the leveraging stage, a non-leveraged stage after the leveraging stage wherein the location of the handle moves toward a lowest position of the handle about 1:1 in relation to the striker; and at the end of the leveraging stage, a top of the front staple is moved to be below a top of the second staple, the front staple remaining substantially confined by the body with a lower leg of the front staple being above a bottom of the body.