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

STRIPPING

After the sheets of box-board have been cut and creased, they are taken to the finishing room where girls and boys do the stripping, which means removing all waste material from the sheets. About fifty sheets at a time are stripped. Intricate cut-outs, box-corners, fancy shapes, etc., are “hammered out” with the aid of a mallet. A small pile of the stock is laid over the edge of a large wooden box, and with a blow of the mallet the waste material falls out into the box.