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

SHOULDERED MAGNESIA BOXES.

Among the other kinds of small paper boxes which are used extensively by pharmacists are plain, round, shouldered magnesia boxes, as they are termed in the trade. Round boxes of this variety are higher in form than the pill boxes which have been described, and they are used for holding other powders in addition to magnesia. (Insect powder, for example). Some boxes of this model have a depth of three inches, while the diameter of the lid is one and fifteen-sixteenths inches.

Round Shouldered Magnesia Box—Covered with
colored glazed paper.

Round, shouldered boxes of this class are made in about the same way as plain, round pill boxes, the round pieces of box-board being glued to the inside edges of the rings. In some instances, the sizes of the rings for the lid and box are both the same. In other cases the depth of the ring for the box is considerably larger than the depth of the ring used for the lid.

The shoulder, or neck, for this kind of box consists of a tube which is almost the same height as the interior of the box. One edge of this tube is glued to the bottom of the box. Some glue is also applied to the side of the tube, so that it will hold firmly to the inside of the box. On account of the neck on this style of box being higher than the neck on a pill box, some slight difficulty would be experienced in placing the lid of the box over the neck. To overcome this, a slit, running slightly on an angle, is cut into the neck with a sharp knife. This slit causes a lap-over of the neck, at the edge, making it an easy matter to slide the lid on.