Patent ID: 7073243

Claim:
A method for securing items together with user selectable shaped staples comprising the steps of: a) inserting a plurality of user selectable shaped staples into a magazine section of a stapler wherein each of said plurality of user selectable shaped staples has a central section having a predetermined shape; b) advancing one of said plurality of user selectable shaped staples into a guide housing of said stapler having a shape substantially similar to the shape of said plurality of user selectable shaped staples; c) positioning items to be secured together between said magazine section and a base of said stapler at a position aligned with said guide housing; d) applying a force on a side of said magazine section towards a base of said stapler; e) causing a punch having a shape substantially similar to the shape of said plurality of user selectable shaped staples to contact said one of said user selectable shaped staples received within said guide housing to be released from said guide housing and out of said magazine section; f) puncturing the items to be secured together by end sections of said user selectable shaped staple released from said guide housing thereby securing the items together.