There's a great image making the rounds of the 'net. It shows, as any fool can plainly see, how paper clips are made by a machine. Meanwhile, the website How Products Are Made describes the process thusly…
- The process begins with a huge spool of galvanized steel wire. A worker feeds the end of the wire into the paper clip machine. A finished paper clip has three bends. The machine forms the wire into these three bends by cutting it and passing it by three small wheels. The wheels are slightly roughened, and catch the length of wire as it passes.
- The first wheel turns the wire 180 degrees, making the first bend, the second makes the next bend, and the third wheel makes the final turn. The entire process is so quick, the machine can churn out hundreds of clips a minute.
- The finished paper clips fall into open boxes. The boxes are shut and sealed.
That is not the only way, of course. Here's an audio file disguised as a video file. The voices you hear will be that of those wonderful experts about everything, Bob and Ray…