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Paper Paperclips
Paperclips (and staples) created from extremely compacted paper | |
Environmentally and shedder friendly, paper paperclips would be used in lieu of metallic paperclips. Using recycled paper, you could create these through some heat/pressure combo. Also, for strength, hemp or some other biodegradable material could be woven in as well.
The primary benefit would
be that you can recycle the very paperclip and/or staple, along with the papers they are attached to. Sensitive documents that need to be shredded? You are supposed to remove all staples/paperclips, but now you can safely dump them all in the shredder.
Initially, I believe these would be designed for a one time use and then disposed of, due to structural decay from the bending of paper material.
Brief history of the paperclip
http://www.didyouknow.cd/paperclips.htm Johann Vaaler of Norway in 1899 was the inventor. [pnewp, Oct 06 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Wooden paper clips
http://www.quincysh...uincy/itwopacl.html Made from pre-pulped paper [DeathNinja, Oct 06 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
I was thinking of something more like this:
http://www.brownand...o.uk/BigNicNacs.htm [Worldgineer, Oct 06 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
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can you really compact paper to be this sharp? |
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Shredders and recycling machines can already handle staples and paperclips. Besides, I don't think it's physically possible. |
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Nice idea. Like the stapleless staplers that can secure 3 to 4 sheets of paper. |
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You could probably punch a small hole through the sheets of paper and use a small piece of hemp fiber to "tie" the pages together |
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pnewp, so now we know who to blame! |
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I've always had a thing against the Vaalers. |
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I would be doubtful that paper could be made into something that would reliably hold sheets of paper together. It certainly would not take the traditional paper clip form - it would probably have to be a large thing a few inches long or more, and probably not very thin. |
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I've been googling for the last half hour (a good use of worktime) for durability/strength of paper and have come up with several papers on durability/strengths of other materials, but nothing on paper so far... maddening thing, that google. If only it could tell me what my key words should be! |
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[waugs] disagree. I think you could make a paperclip from paper but not a staple. |
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I think [DN]'s idea would work well for a staple. |
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[pnewp] My brother used to work fr Wiggins Teape - now Arjo Wiggins in Physical testing (of paper. It got renamed to 'Cynical Testing after his arrival but that is BTW. Maybe I can find some data for you? |
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Observation. Aren't we taking something rigid, tearing it into little pieces, then trying to cram it back together to make it rigid? Why not skip all the processing and make paperclips out of wood? |
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// paperclips out of wood // |
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Kind of kills the point if you use a metal spring. |
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I'm not really sure what the point is to begin with. |
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To have a paperclip you can shred and recycle. Pay attention. |
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Well you can't shred wood. But metal is 100% recyclable. |
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//can't shred wood// Um... how do you make paper? |
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//But metal is 100% recyclable.// Sorry, let me restate, troublemaker. |
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To have a paperclip you can shred and recycle along with the paper it is holding. |
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// how do you make paper // |
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Well I meant in a standard household-strength shredder. Mine can only do like 5 sheets of paper. There's no way it could shred a piece of wood, unless the wood was paper-thin, which would mean it's probably already paper..
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Hmmm. Just for the sake of argument, say I can go along with the premise that somehow paper might somehow be rendered strong and rigid enough to act as a paperclip or staple. What bit of magic would make my little shredder suddenly be able to cut something so substantial? |
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I think the idea is that most shredders can handle metal staple s and whatnot, but somehow the metal messes up the recycling process. So instead make the staples out of paper. I'm not convinced that the metal affects the recycling in any way shape or form... |
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How about some sort of hemp thread that you would turn a wheel and sew pages together? |
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No, that would be called sewing. We're talking about paperclips and staples here. |
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Damn. If only there was some kind of electronic gizmo that would let us write documents and send messages without using any paper at all. |
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Sure, UB. And pictures of paper clips and staples as well! |
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The idea is inovative, but methinks impractical. Paper clips are already "recycled" in that they are used more than once. I have no trouble taking them off a document before shredding said papers. Therefore, I don't think their recyclabiltity is of grave concern to me. It would be, however, very convenient to have recyclable staples, as these are more difficult to pry loose from a document. |
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(And btw, I don't know you, but welcome back just the same.) |
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//some kind of electronic gizmo that would let us write documents and send messages without using any paper at all.// <aside>The project I'm working on now involves, inter alia, receiving data on students from their schools for entry into a database. This data should be supplied as a text or Excel file, but more than one school has printed their Excel sheet, scanned the printout and e-mailed the resulting GIF.</aside> |
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is that called the common transfer platform or something? |
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No, that's called the dim-witted school administrator. |
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Be wary of such proceedures. Half the time it's only a harmless technophobe trying to understand attaching things. It's the other half you have to worry about - those that don't want you to see their "creative" calculations in their spreadsheets. |
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True [Worldgineer], but then you send it as a PDF in order to tell them that they CANT see your excellent calculations. Or modify the software for that matter! |
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But that's just it - you wouldn't want them to know you're hiding your mistakes, so you make it look like you're just not computer savvy. |
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You would be surpised [UB]! There are apparently about 46 tests to perform before you even begin to worry about ink. My bro' also spent a year in development with Hewlet Packard sorting out best ink/paper combinations. Fascinating for some no doubt but I am one of these people who are quite happy to use paper without knowing whence it came. |
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Yah [Zimmy]! Hemp for victory! Fiber plants like hemp grow in long stalks. Mess with weeds in winter and you will be impressed with the stiffness of dry stems. To do this, just take a fiber plant, cut, steam, bend, press and dry. Walla - the environmentally sound hemperclip. The grassroots party would buy billions! |
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Don't you love it when he talks dirty? |
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So there ya go! Are you *sure* you don't live in Maidenhead [UB]? You would fit right in....Honest! |
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Degree of angle of golf club? Where did *loft* occur [po]? |
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UB has some inconsistent loft |
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You are right [po]. Hey! What does *loft* mean in this instance [UB]?
//inconsistent loft in textured cardstock// |
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It's a posh, technical word for fluffiness. |
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Im just wondering about [gnome] and the "fitting right in Maidenhead" business. I tried to google this, but got an awful lot of hits. |
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gnome is also known as *fluffy* in Maidenhead :) |
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hey angel, you know a lot about this - whats the dirty reference then? |
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OK! OK! So any phrase that involves "fitting right in Maidenhead " is gonna be open to ..um..the lower reaches of the porn' market, but you *all know* that my brother used to work in Maidenhead, right!? p.s. mea culpa p.p.s <winks>[po] - NEVER mention 'Fluffy' again, alright?</winks> |
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[po]: I'm more alarmed about "Fluffy in Maidenhead". Is there something we should know? |
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sworn to secrecy - sorry. |
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I'm still waiting to gain the authority to tell the client to piss off in exactly those words and many more. Especially since I know that we are really working for the client's client. What a wierd dance I have to do to explain only those two words in the mean time. Now I envy [UB]. |
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I was just about to re-halfbake this. Excellent idea. |
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