Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-03
PAPER BOXES.
The Augusta Factory Turns Out 9OO,'
900 Yearly at Present.
Employment Given TO 10 Persons With BuI
Hall Capacity.

Nine hundred thousand paper boxes
year sounds like a large number Ia
| the initiated in the art of paper box
making, yet Mr.. II. T. Bond, the
genial manager of the local branch OF
the Standard Box Co, says lie hopes
the time may come when he can
double that number. The above named
figures represents what he is now do
ing and that is but one-half the ca
pacity of his establishment.
The paper box industry is one that
has not been heralded To the four winds
of the heavens since il entered this
city. one year ago in June. 1t was
known unto the people of Augusta thai
there was To be something of the sort
started here, for President Hichborn
and a few other hustling members of
the Board of Trade. decided that the
lower half Of the building occupied by
The PedryOid Case Co. should be used
to accommodate another industry and
that must be one where there would
be a home source of consumption.
They induced the Standard Box Co,
whose headquarters are in Auburn, to
come here and manufacture the boxes
that should be used in the shoe shops
Of the three cities. The company came
here and though the Augusta shoe
shop is now silent and waiting for de-
VelOpments, the factories of Gardiner
and HalloweII are keeping the plan,
running and there are strong hopes
ana expectations Of having anothe:
concern soon to manufacture for,
firm that will occupy Augusta's peer
nately closed.
Ii is not very complicated work
the manufacture of a paper box
though the invention of modern ma
chnery is all that prevents it from be-
ing. The machinery is as near human
as possible and the labor of many
pans-taking men and women is saved
through the result of the work of
genius.
The factory in question occupies two
floors of the building formerly used by
the Glover Medicine Co, the basement
and the first floor.
To the basement and work up with
the stock, is the way that the Journal
and Mr.. Bond Went, the other after
noon. In doing this the two followed
the example of Mr.. Bonds experience
in the business. as he learned every
part of the business so that he is now
able to set up the machinery and in
struct others in doing the work.
Great piles of cardboard are stacked
up on all sides. There are three sorts
Of paper used in the manufacture of the
ordinary box. First of all the paper
that is used in the body of the box. 1t
is a grey cardboard manufactured in
Ohio from old newspapers and other
cast-off things, pieces Of rubber often
being discovered Then there is a still
better grade used in the cover that is
more plia Bile. The stock that is used
in the manufacture of the ends of the
boxes is a straw paper.
In another part Of the basement are
rolls of paper that would remind one
of the printing offices. This paper is
Of all sorts, such as the covering Of any
ordinary shoe box will show anyone
1t is cut into the required widths and
rolled upon other spindles on ma
chine made purposely for it.
To follow the course of the paste
board as it is made into the shape
of a box one first sees the fiat sheet
of cardboard as it passes though the
double scorer This machine pulls the
sheet of board into it, cutting it into
the required width and cutting half
way through in the places where it is
| to be bent into shape. 1t no sooner
passes through this one section of the
machine when it is caught and pushed
automatically through another set Of
| knives and creasers. These said knives
| and creasers can be shifted in any place
required. 50 that the form of box of
| any description can be laid out here
! in few minutes notice.
! The next machine cuts the square
pieces out of the flat board that IS 70
make the cover. These pieces are cut
| from the corner SO that the fold can
| be made. In the same manner the fiat
pieces of cardboard that have been cut
and creased 50 that they will fold and
! make the bottom, sides and folds at the
end must be cut so that the fold can
be made To do this the machine that
has gauges and standards upon it SINH
lar to a carpenters mortlse machlne Is
| set and the stroke of the knife with
right angle in it does the rest.
The stock is then ready to go up to
| the second floor. Take the fiat forms
of the sides and bottom. They are
| placed in a machine that Is the liIoSt
| complicated Of all used in the factory.
The fiat sheets are fed into the ma
chine. the edges of the ends are glued
and il is suddenly shot under form
! that presses it into shape. At the same
| time the end pieces of straw board
which are in another place in the ma
! chine at the start. are shot into place
and pressed against the glued surface
Of the dies and the form of the body Oh
the box comes out of the machine.
| When this has dried, it is taken 10
the LITTLE machine operated by young
woman who dexterously from roll OF
the paprr that is used to cover the ooN
| pIaces the form upon a block. Inc
strip of pasted paper is placed upon
one side of the box which is Whlried
about At the same time the paper Is
rubbed smooth. When the entire reVo-
lution of the box has been made the
paper is automatically cut on TINS
bart of the box is then ready for the
market.
To trace the covers from the board to
the nile one first sees the fiat pieces tha'
are ready for folding taken to machine
operated by a girl, who with deXterouS
fingers. quickly bends over the sides