Drawer
The staple drawer is a device used in the bookbinding trade that is used to stretch the stapling cords or ribbons during manual stapling .
construction
The drawer, mostly made of beech wood, consists of a base plate, also known as a table, to which two wooden or iron threaded rods are attached to the left and right. A height-adjustable crossbeam fastened with two nuts rests parallel to the base plate. This has a longitudinal section through which the stitching threads or tapes can be guided and attached by means of hooks or other additional parts. As a counterpart, there is a hinged bar on the front edge of the table in which the lower ends of the stapling material are clamped in order to build up the necessary pull.
history
The first pictorial representation of a notebook in a manuscript from the first third of the 12th century allows most researchers to date their invention in the immediate past. Others, however, like Jean Vezin, assume a much earlier emergence, partly as early as the 8th century. There is no evidence for these theories, only indications that point to a coherent process of stapling and attaching the lids and thus to the use of a device, at least similar to the staple drawer. Until the staple drawer was implemented, stapling was carried out using a wide variety of techniques, which, however, often only achieved insufficient strength. The tight tension of the filing cords in the drawer, on the other hand, enabled a much more firm hold than before. The principle of the drawer has not changed until the immediate present. As a rule, however, it has now been replaced by stapling machines .
literature
- Alfred Furler: The bookbinder. A job through the ages. AT-Verlag, Aarau et al. 1989, ISBN 3-85502-372-7 .
- K. Jäckel: Notebook. In: Severin Corsten (Ed.): Lexicon of the entire book system. Volume 3: Photochemical Processes - Institute for Book Market Research. 2nd completely revised edition. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9136-6 , p. 417.
- Otto Mazal : Binding customer. The history of the book cover (= elements of the book and library system 16). Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-88226-888-3 .
