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

KIND OF PAPER STOCK USED FOR FOLDING BOXES.

The ordinary news-board, chip-board and straw-board, such as used for the manufacture of set-up boxes, is not adapted to folding boxes for the reason that these boards have a tendency to break when folded. The stock used for folding boxes includes Manila tag-board, bristol-board, clay coated Manila, Manila-lined board, and other kinds of pasted boards which are tough and flexible. Coated box-board comes in white, colors and tints. One side is coated in white, color or tint, the other side being of Manila. When the box is to be printed, the printing is done on the coated side. This stock comes 500 sheets in a ream, size 22½ × 28½, the weight running from 90 pounds to 200 pounds per ream. This stock also comes in rolls, and may be run in rolls on rotary printing presses.

Among the well known firms who supply folding box-board of all kinds, are the following: A. Hartung & Company, of Philadelphia; Berton C. Hill Company, of New York City; Baird & Bartlett Company, of Boston, Mass.; C. L. LaBoiteaux Company, of Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland and New York City, and the White Pigeon Coated Paper Company, of White Pigeon, Mich.