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

CUTTING AND CREASING ON PLATEN PRESSES

Hartford Cutter and Creaser.

Cutting and creasing for folding boxes can be done successfully on platen printing presses of the John Thompson and Hartford type, provided that a printing press of this type be fitted with a steel platen plate, and provided also that the inking rollers of the press be removed. The steel platen plate is removable, and is held to the platen of the press by means of counter-sunk screws. When printing is to be done on the press the platen plate is taken off.

The National Machine Company, of Hartford, Conn., and John Thompson Press Company, of New York City, both manufacture standard cutting and creasing presses which are built especially for this work. These presses, which are not designed for printing purposes, are fitted with removable, steel platen plates, and by having a number of these platen plates, the folding box maker can save the makeready, or “female dies” on the plates, and may keep them stored away for future orders on the same kind of work. In saving such “female dies” on the platen plates, however, it would also be essential to save the forms containing the steel cutting and creasing dies so that all would perfectly register when the dies and plates are again put on the presses.