Patent ID: 7272923

Claim:
A method for making decorative staple strips, comprising: cutting a thin metal sheet into a plurality of metal strips, each of which has two opposite long sides spaced apart by a width greater than 2 mm; assembling the metal strips in such a manner that each of the long sides of each of the metal strips is parallel to and adjoins an adjacent one of the long sides of an adjacent one of the metal strips; applying an adhesive to the assembled metal strips in such a manner that each of the long sides of each of the metal strips is bonded securely to the adjacent one of the long sides of the adjacent one of the metal strips through the adhesive; subjecting the bonded metal strips to a punching process so as to form a non-folded strip unit in a unit length of the bonded metal strips such that the non-folded strip unit has two opposite pin-forming holes formed in the unit length of each of the bonded metal strips, each of the pin-forming holes having two opposite sides confined respectively by two pin-forming portions in the unit length of each of the bonded metal strips; separating the non-folded strip unit from the bonded metal strips; and folding the pin-forming portions of the non-folded strip unit so as to form the non-folded strip unit into the staple strip.