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

SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF MACHINES

On the next page is a diagram which shows a systematic arrangement of machines for staying and wrapping extension bottom boxes and lids, affixing two laces in each box, and closing the boxes.

The extension bottoms are registered and attached to the box and lid blanks by means of a Stokes & Smith Extension Bottom Gauge, Model W.

The blanks are glued with a hand stencil and are placed in the gauge with the extension bottoms, after which they are delivered to the staying machine, which is elevated on a portable platform.

After the staying operation the boxes and lids are passed through a hopper to the operator of a Stokes & Smith Wrapping Machine.

The operator of the gluing machine places the glued wrappers upon a revolving table within convenient reach of the wrapping machine operator.

Systematic arrangement of machines for Staying and Wrapping
Extension Bottom Boxes and Lids; Affixing Two Laces to Box, and Closing.

From the wrapping machine the lids are discharged to a receiving table ready for closing. The boxes are discharged to a hopper conveniently located near the lacing machine operator, who applies the two laces to each box and then passes it on to the receiving table. The boxes are then conveyed to the table on which the lids have been discharged, where the boxes and lids are closed ready for packing.

This is one of the efficiency plans which is being used in many large box factories with successful results.