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

SUIT, HAT AND FLOWER BOXES.

There is a promising field for numerous box makers who would care to specialize in the manufacture of suit, hat and flower boxes. We refer to folding boxes of this variety which are made with lock corners and slits, and which may be produced from single pieces of box board in a very simple manner. The Hobbs Creasing Machine, and the Hobbs Lock Corner Cutter, have been especially built for this work. On these devices the blank stock is creased and cut in such a way that both the lids and boxes may easily be folded together without staying, gluing or wire stitching.

Plain suit, hat and flower boxes are made from folding Manila boxboard and practically all of the plain boxes are made on the telescopic pattern. No covering is done.

GRAINING BOARD FOR SUIT, HAT AND FLOWER
BOXES, ETC.

Handsome effects are produced by graining boxboard for suit, hat and flower boxes, etc. Jute or Manila is generally used when graining is done. Charles Beck Company, of Philadelphia, supply a Rotary Printing Machine which has been designed for producing various kinds of graining. This device is equipped with an intaglio printing roller, inking rollers, fountain, feed-board, etc., and the sheets of boxboard are printed by the intaglio process on the order of this illustration:

Example of Box Board Graining.

Different patterns of graining, imitation alligator-skin and other designs can be produced on the Beck machine by changing the intaglio cylinders which contain the patterns engraved below the surface of the cylinders. The printing cylinder is first inked all over, some of the ink depositing in the engraved places on the cylinder. The surface of the cylinder is then wiped clean, leaving the ink in the engraved places. The impression in the printing transfers the design in the cylinder to the sheet of boxboard—steel plate printing, as it were.

Large size suit and hat boxes are also made with the corners folded in and the ends of the boxes folded over, held firmly together by means of heavy wire staples. Boxes and lids of this kind are made from single pieces of jute boxboard, the blanks properly creased on a creasing machine so that they will fold readily into form. These boxes are usually of the telescopic pattern; are comparatively cheap, and are strong enough to withstand hard service.