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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.

Introduction. Great Growth of the Paper Box Industry. The Field for Attractive and High Quality Boxes. Creating Orders by Submitting New Ideas for Boxes. Plain “Set-up” Paper Boxes--Kinds of Materials Used. How “Set-up” Boxes Are Made. Kinds of Machines Used, etc. Page 7

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

Introduction. Great Growth of the Paper Box Industry. The Field for Attractive and High Quality Boxes. Creating Orders by Submitting New Ideas for Boxes. Plain “Set-up” Paper Bo...

2. CHAPTER II

Plain “Set-up” Boxes (continued). Modern Methods of Working. Various Kinds of Cover Paper. Gold-Edged Paper Boxes. The Stokes & Smith Automatic Wrapping Machine. Extension Botto...

3. CHAPTER III

Plain Paper Boxes With Flanges. Effecting a Saving of Stock. How the Blanks Are Mitered. Efficiency in the Production of Hand-Made Paper Boxes. Kinds of Paste and Glue Used. Equ...

4. CHAPTER IV

Druggists’ Pill and Powder Boxes. Round Pill and Powder Boxes. Round, Shouldered Pill Boxes With Projecting Edges. Plain, Round, Shouldered Magnesia Boxes. How the Tubes, or “Ba...

5. CHAPTER V

Druggists’ Pill and Powder Boxes (continued). Covering Paper for Round Boxes. Cutting Round and Oval Pieces of Box-Board for Tops and Bottoms. Oval Shouldered Pill Boxes With Pr...

6. CHAPTER VI

Candy Boxes. The Increasing Demand. Specializing in Fancy Candy Boxes. How the Machines May Be Arranged to Speed Production. Plain Paper Candy Boxes. Telescope Candy Boxes. Laci...

7. CHAPTER VII

Miscellaneous Paper Boxes. Wedding, Party and Banquet Boxes. Jewelry Boxes. Handkerchief, Garter, Suspender, Necktie and Collar-Button Boxes. Cut-out Inserts. Cigarette Boxes. S...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Folding Boxes and Cartons. Equipment Required for a Small Cutting and Creasing Plant. Kinds of Stock Used for Folding Boxes. Making the “Dummy” for a Folding Box. Kinds of Furni...

9. CHAPTER IX

Folding Boxes and Cartons (continued). Making a Cutting and Creasing Die. Blanking Out the Steel Die. Making Steel Dies for Cut-Outs. Cutting and Creasing on Platen Presses. Mak...

10. CHAPTER X

The Printing Department for a Box-Making Plant. Equipment Necessary for a Medium-Size Printing Department. Kinds of Machines. The Type Equipment. Hartford and John Thomson Plate...

11. CHAPTER XI

The Printing Department (continued). Time-Saving Suggestions. Printing in Gold Size and Bronzing Box Wrappers. Burnishing. Printing in Gold Ink. Gold Leafing for Box Wrappers. E...

12. CHAPTER XII

Corrugated and Fibre Products. The Great Field for Corrugated Boxes and Paper Cans. The Making of Paper Cans. The Equipment Required for Making Paper Cans. How Corrugated Paper...

13. CHAPTER I

Within the last few decades the paper box manufacturing industry of the United States has grown to tremendous proportions, due of course to the ever-increasing demand for paper...

14. CHAPTER II

After the work of staying the corners of a plain set-up paper box, and its lid, has been completed, the next operations are to cover the sides of the box, and the sides of the l...

15. CHAPTER III

If a single piece of box-board were to be used for the making of a large-size set-up paper box, (a hat box, for example) it would necessitate the cutting out of four corner piec...

16. CHAPTER IV

One of the most important branches of the paper box industry is that which is devoted to the manufacture of druggists’ pill and powder boxes. Only a comparatively few concerns a...

17. CHAPTER V

In addition to manufacturing tube rolling machines for the box-makers, James Brown, Jr. & Sons, Manayunk, Philadelphia, are also making tubes for the trade. Instead of manufactu...

18. CHAPTER VI

On account of the greatly increasing demand for candy boxes of all kinds in every section of the country, the writer thought it well to devote a chapter to this important subjec...

19. CHAPTER VII

It is the writer’s purpose to devote this chapter to miscellaneous paper boxes that are in popular demand and which may be classed as specialty lines. Important facts about the...

20. CHAPTER VIII

One of the most important branches of the paper box industry is that devoted exclusively to the making of all kinds of folding boxes and cartons, and this branch of the business...

21. CHAPTER IX

We have now described the machinery and material which are essential for a modern cutting and creasing plant, and with these matters disposed of we will next take up the subject...

22. CHAPTER X

Nearly all of the larger paper box manufacturers are operating their own printing departments. Many of the smaller paper box-making concerns are also operating private printing...

23. CHAPTER XI

One of the larger paper box manufacturing concerns of Philadelphia is operating a printing department in connection with its plant which is equipped and managed in a highly effi...

24. CHAPTER XII

Another important branch of the paper box manufacturing industry is that which is devoted to corrugated paper products. This is a very large branch of the industry and it is con...