Tapered pentagonal carton, panel lid and base Box Template Generator

Tapered pentagonal carton, panel lid and base. Five tapered sides closed by a full pentagon at each end. An unusual footprint that reads as deliberate, and the taper lets the empty cartons nest.

Checked against the plate. This blank has been compared side by side with the drawing in the FEFCO Code, 12th Edition, and matches. That is a statement about the drawing, not a guarantee — always cut and fold a sample before committing to a die.

What is Tapered pentagonal carton, panel lid and base?

Tapered pentagonal carton, panel lid and base is a sleeve, wrap or slide carton. Five tapered sides closed by a full pentagon at each end. An unusual footprint that reads as deliberate, and the taper lets the empty cartons nest.

Uses

Retail and gift packaging, where the box is seen by the customer

Advantages

Cut from a single blank, so there is one tool and one part to stock

Disadvantages

No standard style suits every product; check the fit against a sample before committing to a tool

Typical industries

Gift and premium retail

Recommended board grades

Folding boxboard or solid bleached board, typically 250–450 microns. Heavier board for larger cartons, lighter where the carton is filled by machine.

At a glance

Code	`PENT-TAP`
Family	Folding carton (ECMA)
Also known as	C20.30.11.11, tapered pentagonal carton with lid and base panel
Blank size at this size	269 × 233 mm
Panels	16
Creases	15

Measured against the ECMA 2022 p.50 plate with scripts/plate-diff.py. Five trapezoid walls, 19.97 at the narrow end and 31.95 at the wide, slant 40.38. Intersecting the outermost two radial creases puts the apex at (21.39, -15.42); all six narrow-end corners then lie 67.31 from it and the five walls measure 17.1, 17.1, 17.0, 17.1 and 17.0 degrees, against 67.31 and 17.07 solved from the edge lengths. Pentagon lid and base on the third wall, glue lap 5.99. Note the plate splits four of the five wide-end creases at their midpoints, which is a drawing artefact, not ten walls. MATCH at 0.924 (cut 0.999/0.997, crease 1.000/1.000), plate-diff, ECMA reader at 6e70006.

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