Patent ID: 7118020

Claim:
A stapler for stapling decorative staples into a sheet media, wherein said decorative staples have an indicia platform, at least two left prongs and at least two right prongs located at the corners of the indicia platform, said stapler comprising: a base; a cartridge assembly pivotably mounted to said base at a pivot end, said cartridge assembly having a magazine for storing said decorative staples; and a stapler head, said stapler head having a ram configured to press downwardly on the indicia platform of said decorative staple, pushing said decorative staple out of said magazine such that said two left prongs and said two right prongs enter a top side of a sheet media and are deformed against an anvil in said base on a bottom side of said sheet media, wherein said ram is provided with a substantially rectangular table with left and right elongated ridges that extend below said table of said ram where said left and right ridges are disposed substantially directly above said left and right prongs on said decorative staples, such that when said stapler head is pressed downward, said left and right longitudinal ridges make initial contact with both said left prongs and said both right prongs of said staple to provide equal pressure on all four prongs during insertion through said sheet media.