An exemplary medical apparatus may include a surgical tool a feeder belt located at least partially within the surgical tool a plurality of staples affixed to and frangibly separable from the feeder belt and a forming station positioned within the surgical tool that receives the feeder belt where motion of the feeder belt through the forming station bends at least one staple relative to the feeder belt substantially at the junction between that staple and the feeder belt in order to work harden that junction within the surgical tool.
