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

ROUND FACE POWDER BOXES WITH DOME TOPS.

Among the most popular face powder boxes are the round ones having domed tops. Boxes of this design also have projecting edges. Some are covered with fine, colored and embossed paper, leaving four gold edges; others are entirely covered with gold paper; others still have four white or gold edges and are finished with colored glazed paper.

Face Powder Box with dome top—Covered with colored
enameled paper, leaving four gold edges.

Beck Doming or Embossing Machine.

The Charles Beck Company, of 609 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, make a duplex embossing press which has been designed especially for the “doming” of tops for round or oval face powder boxes. It is a hot press, and by means of brass male and female dies, it shapes round or oval pieces of box-board into convex forms for the tops of the boxes. The Beck Duplex Embossing Press consists of two complete presses which operate alternatingly. A set of dies is placed in proper position in each press. The operator places a box-top over the female die of one press, and as that box-top is being embossed, the operator places another box-top over the female die of the other press. In this way there is always a box-top being embossed, either on one press or the other. The box-top remains between the heated dies long enough to be firmly molded into a dome.

The printed labels for dome-topped face powder boxes are pasted on the round or oval pieces of box-board before the embossing is done, so that the labels will have the same convex form as the box-board. The covering is done the same as with flat-topped round boxes with projecting edges.