Snap lock box with handle dieline

About this dieline

A snap lock box with a handle is a carry box: a flat roof with an upright handle and a hand hole on top, and a 1-2-3 bottom that locks by hand without glue. It is FEFCO 0217, one sheet of board glued once down the side, and it ships flat. People use it for takeaway meals, pastries, small gifts and party favours: anything you hand over and carry home.

Enter the length, width and height and the board, paperboard or corrugated up to 7 mm, and download a print-ready PDF with cut and crease lines. The handle is a third of the height, and its ears snap through slits in the end flaps, so the top locks too. The same box takes a tuck lid, flaps or a hang tab instead: switch the Top and your sizes stay.

How do I close the top?

Fold the two roof panels in so the handle halves stand up back to back over the middle, then fold each end flap in over the handle: push the ears at the handle ends through the slits in the flaps and the top holds shut.

How is it different from the gable box?

The top is the same. The gable box has a crash lock bottom, glued at the factory, that pops open by itself. This box has a snap lock bottom with no glue: you fold it by hand, which costs less to make and works on corrugated board too.

Snap lock bottom box sizes: 1-2-3 bottom boxes, favours to shippers →