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

PLAIN OBLONG POWDER BOXES.

Small paper boxes of this variety are used extensively by the drug trade for physicians’ prescriptions calling for powders wrapped in papers.

Oblong Plain Powder Box—Covered with colored
glazed paper.

Boxes of this type are made from light-weight Manila, news, chip or straw-board, and they are cut, scored and folded in practically the same way as the larger-size set-up boxes. There is a machine on the market especially designed for cutting corners and scoring blanks for small boxes of this variety. The corner-cutting and scoring are done simultaneously, so that the corners and scoring-lines will register accurately. In fine hand-work, pieces of the glazed covering paper are cut to the sizes needed. The strips of paper are pasted around the sides of the boxes and lids, and the edges of the paper are turned in, top and bottom.

Many small-size, square and oblong pill and powder boxes are now being made by machines. The Improved Brightwood Automatic Box Machine, manufactured by the U. S. Automatic Box Machinery company, of Boston, Mass., will make paper boxes as small as 1 and ½ inches as well as boxes of larger sizes. Another wonderful device is the Automatic Box Making Machine, Model 33, manufactured by the New Jersey Machine Corporation, of New York City. This machine will automatically make a wide range of small set-up boxes such as are used for cigarettes, cigars, needles, pins, buttons, clips, pills, powders, jewelry, garters, etc.