How Paper Boxes Are Made / A practical and instructive book telling how the beginner may manufacture all kinds of paper boxes, with special chapters on the printing department for paper box plants, embossing, gold-leafing, label work, etc.

by Robert F. Salade

CIGARETTE BOXES.

Numerous brands of cigarettes of the better quality are packed in paper boxes of the set-up style, and the lids in most cases are hinged to the boxes, the hinge being formed of tape or linen. Cigarette boxes of this type are usually made of light-weight boxboard, and are equipped with shoulders. The inner side of the boxboard is lined with white paper, and the stock is then scored and cut so as to form long, oblong strips after being folded and stayed. The strips are then “chopped” up into small sections of the essential sizes to make the sides for the boxes and lids. The shoulders for the boxes are made in the same way. The blanks for the bottoms of the boxes and for the tops of the lids are cut to size on a rotary cutting machine, although it is possible to cut the blanks, from small piles of full-size sheets, on a regular paper cutting machine, but for the sake of accuracy blanks of this kind should be produced on a rotary cutter.

After the top and bottom pieces have been inserted, the boxes and lids are covered with white or colored glazed paper. The shoulders, or necks, are then put in the boxes. Printed or lithographed labels are put on the inside as well as on the outside of the lids.

When the boxes are to be hinged, the hinging material is applied to the box and lid, on the inner sides, before the shoulder pieces are set in the boxes.

Many cigarette boxes (not folding boxes) are made on the same plan as the larger size set-up boxes, the box and lid being cut from single pieces of cardboard; creased, cornered, folded and stayed in the usual manner, but when boxes that are made this way have shoulders, the register of the box and lid is not as accurate as in the case of the box and lid being made from long folded sections.