Abstract: An apparatus for making paper clips which includes cutting predetermined lengths of wire by advancing a continuous wire at a predetermined speed to a cutting station. The cutting station includes knife means with the knife having a cutting blade edge for penetrating the wire. Delivery means to engage the wire are provided along the path downstream of the cutting station for advancing the wire into a receiving slot. The receiving slot is provided with a deflecting member at an acute angle to the path of the wire and a magnet. The cut wire is then lifted out of the slot by an elevator platform means, and the wire is engaged by a ramming plate associated with three spindles, each spindle adapted to pass through a respective die member and the die member having spiral bending edges for bending the cut wire about the respective spindles for forming the paper clip.