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

PUTTING ON THE FEEDING GUIDES

The feeding guides may be of brass, wood or lead. Pieces of 12-point printer’s brass rule, about two inches long, make the best guides for heavy sheets of box board. 12-point slugs, about two inches long, or pieces of 12-point reglet, will serve well as feeding guides for the general run of work. Rub brass or lead slugs on a sheet of fine emery paper before applying the glue, as the rubbing helps in making the guides hold firmly. Use only LePage glue in attaching the guides.

After the guides have been put on in the proper position, fenders are then applied at the inner sides of the two bottom guides, and one fender at the lower end of the side guide. There are three guides, two at the bottom and one on the left-hand side. The fenders are formed of heavy-weight folding cardboard, or of 1-point brass rule, about one-and-one-half inches long. The fenders are used to prevent the sheets of box-board from extending over the guides in the feeding.