Burger box
Square clamshell with a deep lid, sized for one burger.
- Example size
- 120 × 120 × 45 mm internal
- Blank
- 213 × 374 mm
- Pieces
- 1 blank
- Board choices
- 12 boards, 0.45 to 7 mm
Free to design and to check in 3D. €2.50 for the PDF, €3.50 for the DXF or SVG.
What this box is, in other words
Burgers, sandwiches, pastries, a slice of cake or a lunch: food that goes out of the door in one box that opens and closes without a separate lid.
How it closes. The base is a glued corner tray. Its back wall carries on into the lid, which has its own front and side walls, glued at the front corners, and closes down over the outside of the base. It holds by friction; a sticker over the front keeps it shut in a bag.
Worth knowing. The back wall is one board higher than the other walls so the lid lies flat on top. At the front the lid stands one board further out than at the sides, because its corner tabs sit between the two front walls. If the food touches the board, ask your supplier for food-contact grade board: the drawing sets the shape, it does not make the board food-safe.
Also called
clamshell box takeaway box take-out box hinged lid box food box with lid burger box lunch box sandwich box pastry box clamshell burger takeaway food square hinged lid
Same construction, different trade. If you came looking for one of those, this is it.
How this one is built
- Takeaway box: a glued corner tray with a lid hinged on its back wall. The lid closes down over the outside of the base.
- The back wall is 46.5 mm, one board higher than the inside height plus half a board, so the lid lies flat on the wall tops.
- The lid side walls stand 0.4 mm clear of the base; at the front the lid is one board wider (3.4 mm) because its corner tabs sit between the two front walls.
- The lid reaches 35 mm down the base walls. It holds by friction; a sticker on the front keeps it shut in transport.
- All six corner tabs need glue.
Board options
The drawing changes when you change the board: thickness compensation is built into every fold, so a 4 mm C-flute blank is not the same shape as a 0.45 mm carton blank.
- F-flute corrugated (0.8 mm)
- E-flute corrugated (1.5 mm)
- B-flute corrugated (3.0 mm)
- C-flute corrugated (4.0 mm)
- EB double wall (4.5 mm)
- BC double wall (7.0 mm)
- SBS / GC1 board 350 gsm (0.45 mm)
- FBB / GC2 board 400 gsm (0.55 mm)
- Kraft / GD2 board 400 gsm (0.50 mm)
- Greyboard 1.0 mm (rigid)
- Prototype board 1.0 mm
- Prototype board 2.0 mm
Questions about this box
- Is there a FEFCO or ECMA code for a takeaway clamshell?
- Not one we could check against the catalogues for this construction, so the tool does not print one. The base is the same glued corner tray as the plain tray.
- How far does the lid come down?
- Set it under Lid depth. The default covers about 40 % of the base wall. Below two board thicknesses plus 6 mm the lid walls are too short for corner tabs; the tool then leaves the lid corners open and says so.
- Is this dieline free?
- Designing it and folding it in 3D are free and need no account. Downloading it is paid: €2.50 for the PDF to print and measure on paper, and €3.50 for a production file - DXF or SVG - because those are the ones that go to a cutting table.
- What is a dieline?
- The flat drawing a box is cut from. It shows where the knife cuts, where the board is creased to fold, and where it is perforated. A die maker turns it into a steel rule die; a plotter or laser cuts it directly. It is also written as "die line" or "die cut template".
- What file format does a die maker need?
- DXF, almost always. Ours is R12 DXF at 1:1 in millimetres with cut, crease, reverse crease and perforation each on their own layer, which is what a cutting table expects. The SVG is the same geometry for Illustrator, Affinity, Inkscape and laser software.
- Can I use it commercially?
- Yes. The files are yours: modify them, print them, make any number of boxes from them. No attribution and no licence fee, ever.
What you can change
8 parameters on the first screen, 5 more behind advanced settings.
- Dimension mode
- Length (L)
- Width (W)
- Height (H)
- Board caliper (t)
- Lid depth
- Lid window
- Window frame