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 HAT BOXES.

Milliners and hatters dealing in the better grades of hats are large consumers of round and oval hat boxes. Some of the fine millinery boxes are covered with fancy embossed, colored or striped paper, and these are presented to the buyers of the hats. The square-shaped hat boxes, however, are the most popular on account of their lower cost, and of course they are just as useful as the round and oval boxes.

The round or oval hat box is formed of a side-piece and a set-in bottom-piece, the lid being made on the same plan. The side-piece, after being stayed at the two ends (on the inner side) is placed on a round or oval form. The bottom-piece is then set in. The turned-in edges of the covering paper serve to hold the sides and the bottom of the box together. After the sides of the lid have been covered, and the edges of the covering paper turned in, a round, or oval piece of covering paper is pasted to the top of the lid.