Six-bottle divider
3 x 2 cells of about 85 mm, for wine bottles in a shipping box.
- Example size
- 262 × 176 × 200 mm internal
- Blank
- 260 × 612 mm
- Pieces
- 3 separate blanks
- 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
Bottles, jars, glasses and candles in a shipping box: each product gets its own cell, so they do not knock against each other.
How it closes. Nothing folds. The strips along the length are slotted from the top, the strips across the width from the bottom, and they slide into each other at every crossing. The set then drops into the box.
Worth knowing. Enter the inside of the box the dividers go into, not the cell size. The cells come out as the inside size minus the strips, divided by the number of cells, and every strip is 1 mm short at each end so the set goes in without forcing.
Also called
cell divider cardboard dividers partition insert bottle divider slotted partition egg crate divider box dividers wine bottle divider 6 bottles beer insert
Same construction, different trade. If you came looking for one of those, this is it.
How this one is built
- Partition for a box of 262 x 176 mm inside: 3 x 2 cells of 86.3 x 87.3 mm, 200 mm high.
- 1 long strip of 260.0 mm, slotted from the top; 2 cross strips of 174.0 mm, slotted from the bottom. Slide the cross strips down over the long ones.
- Slots 1.8 mm wide (board + 0.3 mm), half the height deep. Every strip is 1 mm short at each end so the set drops into the box.
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
- What FEFCO code is a cell divider?
- Partitions and inserts are the FEFCO 09 group, interior fittings. Several numbers in that group are slotted partitions that differ in detail, so the drawing names the group and not a number.
- How wide are the slots?
- The board thickness plus a small clearance: 0.3 mm on carton board, up to about 1 mm on double wall. You can change it under Tolerances if your board runs thicker than its nominal caliper.
- Which way should the flutes run?
- Up and down in every strip. The strips are drawn standing, height along the sheet, so flutes along the sheet give vertical flutes and a divider that does not buckle under a stacked box.
- 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
6 parameters on the first screen, 3 more behind advanced settings.
- Box inside length (L)
- Box inside width (W)
- Partition height (H)
- Board caliper (t)
- Cells along the length
- Cells across the width