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

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.

ROUND HAT BOXES.

Milliners and hatters dealing in the better grades of hats are large consumers of round and oval hat boxes. Some of the fine millinery boxes are covered with fancy embossed, colored or striped paper, and these are presented to the buyers of the hats. The square-shaped hat boxes, however, are the most popular on account of their lower cost, and of course they are just as useful as the round and oval boxes.

The round or oval hat box is formed of a side-piece and a set-in bottom-piece, the lid being made on the same plan. The side-piece, after being stayed at the two ends (on the inner side) is placed on a round or oval form. The bottom-piece is then set in. The turned-in edges of the covering paper serve to hold the sides and the bottom of the box together. After the sides of the lid have been covered, and the edges of the covering paper turned in, a round, or oval piece of covering paper is pasted to the top of the lid.

SUIT CASES AND TRAVELING BAGS.

Several of the larger paper box manufacturing concerns are making suit cases and traveling bags as a side line in addition to the regular lines of paper boxes. These suit cases and traveling bags are of the lower-priced variety, no genuine leather entering into their production. The inside of the cases and bags is of heavy chip-board, lined with leatherette paper. The outside is covered with heavy “leatheroid.” Iron frames are essential in the cases, and the material is held together with copper or brass rivets. This is a specialty line which should have the consideration of many other box-makers who have plants equipped for the production of such work.