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

STOCKING BOXES.

Great quantities of paper boxes are continually being consumed in the stocking industry for packing the stockings in convenient lots for the trade. The average box contains half a dozen pairs of hose, or stockings, and often the retail dealer gives the box to the buyer of half a dozen pairs, which means that a box of this kind should be of good quality and attractive to some extent.

Stocking boxes are all of the set-up type. Some have shoulders, others are on the telescopic pattern, some are made with ordinary lids. The stock is usually lined with white paper. The covering is often done with colored glazed paper. In some instances, the edges of the lids and boxes are trimmed with paper of another color. Sometimes fancy laces are placed in fine stocking boxes. The label of the stocking manufacturer is placed on one end of the box.

When putting on the lids of finished stocking boxes, or in fact, when placing on the lids of any oblong boxes, the operator can save time by setting on the lid over the narrow way of the box, rather than by placing the lid over the long way of the box.