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

OBLONG SHOULDERED POWDER BOXES.

Paper boxes of this model are generally used by druggists for holding physicians’ prescriptions of powders, but these boxes are also used for holding capsules, tablets, etc.

Oblong Shouldered Powder Box—Covered with white
enameled paper, and having four gold edges.

These boxes are made from Manila, news, chip or straw-board, of the lighter weights, and the side of the stock which will appear on the inside of the boxes and lids is first lined with white paper. Some of these boxes are made the same as regular set-up boxes (with the exception of the neck). Others are made with set-in top and bottom pieces. The box-board for the inner tops and bottoms of the best quality boxes are lined with white enameled paper, the stock used for the sides of the boxes is lined with plain white paper.

In the case of an oblong shouldered box having set-in top and bottom pieces, forms, or blocks, are used by the operators for holding the tops and bottoms into position as the trimming paper and covering paper are applied. The trimming paper is applied first, then the covering paper is put on, leaving four edges of the trimming paper exposed.

The necks, or shoulders, are first made in long sections with the aid of a rotary cutting and scoring machine. The long sections are then cut into the desired lengths on a machine like the Robinson Chopper. The outer sides of the necks are now covered with white enameled paper, and after the paper has been turned in over the inner sides of the necks, the necks are then inserted in the boxes, held with glue at the sides.

Small boxes of this style usually are covered on the bottoms with white enameled paper. The tops of the lids are not covered, the printed labels used by the druggists serving as coverings. The boxes and lids of shouldered boxes of this kind are both of the same size. The trimming and covering is done in various colors of paper.

The greater number of square and oblong shouldered boxes have the tops and bottoms set in, instead of the box and lid being formed of solid pieces of box-board, for this reason: The sides for shouldered boxes are made in long sections, and after the long sections have been folded to the proper shape, and stayed at one corner, (on the inside) the long sections are cut into the necessary widths on a chopping machine. Naturally, by this method, the “frames” for the boxes and lids are all of the same square or oblong size, on account of having been cut from the one size material. This means that the lid and box register accurately.