Abstract: Covering of raw boxes with a sheet blank in a box laminating machine with a rubbing-down device that sweeps or rolls over the surface to be covered and a counter-holder that interacts with said rubbing-down device, wherein the rubbing-down operation takes place during a transport movement of the box and the counter-holder plunges into the box in order to support the wall to be covered against the rubbing-down device.

Abstract: A box laminating machine with two rubbing-down devices that lie opposite of one another with respect to the box to be covered, wherein each rubbing-down device has a counter-holder that plunges into the box and a rubbing-down element that sweeps over the wall to be covered, which is supported against the counter-holder. The rubbing-down operation of opposing walls takes place successively, wherein a movement of the box relative to the counter-holder takes place perpendicular to the wall to be rubbed down.