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

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED FOR SMALL PLANT.

While holding an interview with a manufacturer of paper box making machinery who has furnished complete plants for many box-makers during the last two decades, the writer asked the manufacturer to mention the equipment that would be required for a small paper box factory just starting in business. The manufacturer answered that it would be difficult for him to specify the kinds and sizes of the machines necessary for a small new plant, without knowing exactly the class of work which was to be produced. The manufacturer explained, however, that for an ordinary plant where a general line of plain set-up paper boxes were to be made, the following equipment would probably be sufficient in the beginning of the venture:

One Single Scoring and Cutting Machine.
One Staying Machine.
Two 9-inch Covering Machines.
One 12-inch Covering Machine.
One 16-inch Covering Machine.
One 16-inch Topping Machine.
One Ending Machine.
One Single Corner Cutting Machine.
One Paper Slitter.
One 34-inch Paper Cutter.
Supplies of box-board, staying material, white and colored glazed paper in 25-inch rolls, cheviot paper in 25-inch rolls, paste, glue, etc.

The corner cutting machine may be equipped with interchangeable dies for cutting round corners, miters for box-bodies with flanges, and odd shapes of many kinds, such as for example, corners for wrappers used on Stokes & Smith machines. All of this work may be done on the single cornering machine in addition to the plain corner cutting for set-up boxes, but it would be necessary to order the special dies as “extras,” as they are not furnished with the regular equipment.