Talk:Coil binding

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Spiral Binding Company IncSpiral Binding Company Inc was merged into this article. The discussion was closed on 11 March 2019 with a consensus to merge. The original page is now a redirect to this article. Its history now serves to provide attribution for the content in this article, and it must not be deleted as long as this article exists.

I don't know how to do it. The Spanish version is this one: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encuadernaci%C3%B3n_en_espiral. Could someone do it?--79.153.107.15 (talk) 12:20, 29 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Done. Thank you. Jim.henderson (talk) 11:29, 1 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

The article on coil binding does not allow for editing the introductory paragraph. If I could edit it, I would add the following: The term "spiral" sometimes used for coil binding is a mathematical misnomer. A spiral is a 2-dimensional geometric figure. The more apposite term would be "helix". The DNA molecule is a double helix, not a double spiral.

Donald I. Promish Burlington, Vermont 63.3.17.130 (talk) 21:13, 8 August 2011 (UTC

I don't see how editing is restricted, but thank you. I used less detail but did point out the distinction between the geometer's "spiral" and the tradesman's. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:13, 11 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Often "spiral" is used to describe any movement where rotation is combined with evolution in another dimension -- whether evolving in amplitude as in the geometry spiral (or like the 2D projection of a 3D helix viewed with persepective from near one end), or instead evolving along the rotation axis as in the helix of a spiral staircase (or else even some combination of both like an Ekman spiral). Sigh. Prescriptivists.

This article showcases a picture of a binding machine which is used for comb binding/wire binding. These too are colloquially called "spiral binding" but they are not the kind of binding which this article describes; the machine appears to be the kind which is not used with a literal spiral (as in helix or a classic spring shape) of wire. Cesiumfrog (talk) 08:10, 28 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

The "Binding Machine" shown in the picture looks very much like a comb binding machine - this is quite different from coil binding, the topic of this article. Does anyone have an image of a proper coil binding machine? 109.148.225.202 (talk) 16:55, 3 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

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