Innovative Ideas and Inventions from the PAST

Spring Paper Clip Grips Nails to Start Them - 1940

To hold slender wire nails while driving them, a spring paper clip will be found useful. Besides protecting the fingers, the clip tends to prevent the nails from bending.

Originally published in Popular Mechanics Magazine - April 1940 - Copyright 1940, by Popular Mechanics Co. in the United States, Australia and France. All commercial use and rights to use as prescribed by U.S. Copyright law.