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

SQUARE SHOULDERED BOXES.

Square shouldered boxes, for physicians’ prescriptions of powders and pills, are almost as popular in the drug trade as round boxes.

Square Shouldered Pill and Powder Box—Covered with buff
glazed paper, trimmed with four gold edges.

Practically all square shouldered pill and powder boxes are made with set-in tops and bottoms. The sides are first made in long sections. The long sections are then cut on a chopping machine to the smaller sizes necessary for the sides of the boxes. The small “frames” are put on forms; the square blanks are set in, and the trimming paper is applied which holds the square pieces to the sides. The strips of covering paper are then pasted around the sides. The necks are made in long sections, afterwards being cut into the required lengths. The stock used for the necks is lined on the inner side with white paper. After the long sections have been cut into smaller lengths, each small section is covered on the outer sides with white enameled paper, the paper being turned in over the edges which will appear at the top of the neck. The necks are then inserted in the boxes, held with glue at the sides. The lids and boxes are both the same size, and they register accurately over the neck.

An attractive color effect for a square shouldered pill and powder box is obtained by first covering the box and lid with red glazed paper, and then covering the sides of the box and lid with green imitation wood paper. This leaves four red edges showing.

Some square shouldered pill and powder boxes have hinged lids, so that in the homes of sick people the covers of different boxes cannot become interchanged, and wrong directions on the labels of the covers followed.