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

DRUGGISTS’ PILL AND POWDER BOXES (Continued)

IN addition to manufacturing tube rolling machines for the box-makers, James Brown, Jr. & Sons, Manayunk, Philadelphia, are also making tubes for the trade. Instead of manufacturing the tubes, or “barrels,” for round boxes in their own plants, some of the box-makers order the tubes made by concerns like James Brown, Jr., & Sons. Afterwards, the box-makers have the finished tubes cut into rings of the required sizes, and assembled into boxes in their own plants. There is an advantage, of course, in the box-maker having his own tube rolling machines.

The finished “barrels” for round paper boxes are cut into rings of various lengths on a rotary tube-cutting machine which works somewhat on the principle of a lathe. Some of the larger manufacturers of round pill boxes have had special cutting machines built for this purpose. Tube-cutting machines of this kind are supplied by some of the larger manufacturers of paper box machinery.

In some paper box factories, where small, round and oval pill boxes are produced as a specialty, the tubes are rolled by hand on forms of the required sizes. After a tube has been rolled, it is placed on another form to dry for about twenty-four hours before being cut into small sections on a lathe. The machine-made tubes are said to be just as satisfactory as the hand-made tubes. All of the tubes are allowed to dry thoroughly before cutting them into rings.