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 Stokes & Smith Lacing and Fly-Leafing Machine is a very useful device on this class of work. It will glue and insert laces or fly-leaves to the boxes as fast as the operator can handle them.

A great deal of lacing and fly-leafing work is still being done by hand operators, and one advantage of the hand-work is that a pure white paste may be used, while the machine requires glue to run properly. On fine candy boxes sanitary white paste should be used for the lacing or fly-leaves, as a yellow glue would not look as clean.

Candy Box with Two Flyleaves and Two Laces.

The U. S. Lace Paper Works, Inc., of New York City, supply many different varieties of lacing to the trade. This paper may be run on the Stokes & Smith Lacing and Fly-Leafing Machine, or on the Bird Fly Machine. Sample books of the lacing will be furnished on request.

SHOULDERED BOXES WITH EXTENSION TOPS AND
BOTTOMS

Manufacturers of fine chocolates and candies are using shouldered boxes with extension tops and bottoms to a great extent as containers of this product, and many boxes of this variety also have padded tops.

The boxes and lids are first made in the same way as plain set-up boxes. Separate pieces of box-board, about ¼ of an inch larger on all four edges than the size of the box, are then glued to the tops of the lids and to the bottoms of the boxes. After this has been done, the boxes and lids are then wrapped with the covering paper, the paper being turned in over the top edges of the box and the corresponding edges of the lid. The shoulder, or neck section is then set in the box.