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

THE FINISHED BOX.

Both the lid and the bottom of the box are made in the same manner as described. After the trim-paper has been applied to the sides and edges of the rings, strips of white or colored glazed paper are then pasted around the sides of the rings (over the trim-paper), these strips not being as wide as the strips of trim paper. The finished box shows four edges of the trim, one at the top of the lid, one at the bottom of the lid, one at the top of the box and one at the bottom.

The shoulder ring, or neck, is nearly double the height of the ring which forms either the box or the lid. Paste is applied to one edge of the neck-ring and the neck-ring is then placed inside one of the box-rings, the end containing the paste adhering to the bottom of the box. It is well also to put a small portion of the paste on the side of the shoulder-ring which goes down inside the box. The lid, of course, fits snugly over the neck.

Some round, shouldered boxes of this type are covered on the inside with colored glazed paper, others have merely the tops and bottoms lined with white paper. In the latter case, the box-board used for the round top and bottom pieces is lined on one side before being cut into circles.

The rings for the lids, boxes and shoulders, when made of white paper, are naturally white on the inside. We will explain how the tubes for the rings and shoulders are made later on.

Round, Shouldered Projecting Edge Pill Box—Covered with colored enameled paper, leaving four gold edges.