Patent ID: 8387952

Claim:
A staple remover for removing a staple from a stack of sheets of paper, said staple defining a crown and two legs each extending from said crown, said staple remover comprising: a storage compartment, and a substantially elongated staple removing blade mechanically coupled to said storage compartment; said staple removing blade defining a substantially flat and substantially longitudinally extending blade bottom end and a substantially opposed substantially longitudinally extending staple pulling surface; said staple removing blade defining a front end portion and a substantially longitudinally opposed rear end portion, said rear end portion being located inside said storage compartment and said front end portion being located outside of said storage compartment, said blade bottom end and said staple pulling surface diverging from each other over at least a portion of said staple removing blade extending from said front end portion towards said rear end portion, said staple pulling surface defining an apex at a location where said staple pulling surface is maximally distanced from said blade bottom end; said staple removing blade also defining a laterally flared portion substantially in register with said apex, at least part of said staple pulling surface being defined by said laterally flared portion; wherein, when said staple removing blade is inserted between said crown and said stack of sheets of paper and moved along said stack of sheets of paper so as to pull said staple from said stack of sheets of paper, said laterally flared portion substantially resiliently deforms said two legs before allowing said two legs to spring back towards each other and projecting said staple into said storage compartment when said staple has been pulled out of said stack of sheets of paper.