A child-resistant vape box is a structure, not a sticker: the lock moves before the drawer or the lid will come out. Three locks cover the shelf, each a two-move action that stops a small hand short. A 16 CFR 1700.20 or ISO 8317 report is supplied on request.
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A child-resistant vape box does a single job: a child cannot open it, and an adult opens it without reading anything first. Every lock below is a two-part action — and the second part is where an adult and a child part ways.
A small hand presses, then lets go to grab the tray — and the tray is locked again before it clears the wall.
Never holds a heavy mod host. Weight on a button-locked drawer drags the action loose. A host rides in a compartmented tray instead.
What shipsA flat-packed box that fills on a standard line and stays shut from the factory to the counter.
A child manages one action at a time — pushes, or pulls — but never the two together, which is where the sleeve stops.
Never holds a glass bottle. A slide needs a flat face to travel on. Glass has no flat face, and its weight shears the travel.
What shipsA flat blank that stacks and posts light — no formed barrel to freight.
The button sits low on the barrel, away from where a small hand grips, and a turn without the press leaves the cap shut.
Never holds a kit of two or more parts. A tube is cut for a single item. Two parts need a divided tray, which is a different structure with its own die.
What shipsA formed barrel that reads as premium on the shelf and keeps a single device from rattling.
A child-resistance report is a result, not a signature. Both standards run the same shape of test, and what comes back is a document a buyer's compliance team can clear without asking for a second run.
ISO 8317 tests the other half too: 100 adults aged 50 to 70, given the printed instructions, must open and reclose the pack — 90 of them or more. A lock that beats a child but stops an adult fails its own report.
The test runs on the filled pack. The lab loads an inert stand-in for the contents, but the container and its lock are proven as a single system: a different cart or pen is a different structure, drawn and tested again.
A child-resistance report describes one structure, tested against a single standard. It is the strongest sentence a packaging page can carry, and the sentence a buyer reads instead of taking the pack on trust.
A shelf uses these three freely, and they are not interchangeable. Two are words; the third is a standard with a test behind it. The term on the pack decides whether the claim survives a buyer's first question.
Defined by the standard, not by a designer: significantly difficult for a child under five to open in a reasonable time, and not difficult for an adult to use properly.
Not promisedIt does not mean a child cannot open the pack at all — no report makes that promise.
In practicePrint it and stand behind it — the only term of the three a report can defend.
A common word with no test behind it, and the strongest of the three. It promises what no lab can show: a package that no child ever opens.
Not promisedA report never uses this word, and neither does this page.
In practiceLeaving it off a pack removes a claim no lab can back.
Shows the pack has not been opened or altered before it reached the buyer — a seal, a band, a broken line of ink. A useful addition, on a different structure.
Not promisedIt stops nobody. A child can open a tamper-evident pack; the seal only tells you that someone did.
In practiceA visible seal that shows a pack arrived untouched, stacked on the lock rather than instead of it.
The lock is the first decision, and the rest are drawn around it. Nothing downstream is settled until it is.
The die is cut for whichever of the three structures you name, and a run starts at 500 packs.
Enough to fix the lock and its cavity, not a product page.
Either standard, or the signed sample alone.
A die per lock, drawn to the fill.
White dummy first: the sample sits in the lock before a printed run.
Change the lock part-way through and the job is not an edit: a different lock is a different die, drawn and cut again from the start.
Most lock revisions are not new ideas. They are the same four faults, caught either at the panel or on a first shipment — and each fault costs a die and a test to put right.
The two moves need strength, a nail-edge press, or a grip a stiff hand cannot make. The adult half of the test is the half most designs forget.
What turns it aroundA light press force, a button a whole thumb can find, and a second move a wrist can make without help.
A pack squeezed in a bag or knocked along a shelf releases with nobody trying, so the lock undoes itself on the way to the counter.
What turns it aroundThe press sits where a casual squeeze never lands — the two moves cannot line up by accident.
If the product rattles, its own weight drives the button in as the carton rides a truck, and the lock is open before it is unpacked.
What turns it aroundA cavity cut to the part rather than to the box, so the fill stays still and never reaches the lock.
A white dummy is approved on one caliper, the run goes to a thinner sheet, and the button no longer seats or the tab no longer clears.
What turns it aroundProve the lock on the board the run will use — the sample and the shipment are the same structure.
Locks only A lock is all this page covers. The wider vape range sits on the main vape packaging page.
Buyers in the United States and the United Kingdom describe what the lock did in their own handling, from the adult move to the reorder.
Adults on our floor settled the child-resistant question before the lab did. A thumb press and a pull opened the sample first try, and the pad came back 1.5 mm shallower, within reach of a stiff thumb.
Training took 15 minutes for the whole line. Nobody has gone back to the insert note since, and the next production order went out without a tray pulled apart to check the button.
Turnaround held without us chasing it. The dieline arrived the next morning, and 30,000 packs went out on the first plate set.
The pack now clears 8 markets on a single ISO 8317 file. Our buyer read the method and signed, because the report carried the test and the covering note carried nothing.
Repeat orders run on the signed sample. Eleven shipments have come off the same die, and the tab has seated the same way on each. Our QA no longer pulls a carton to check it.
Fixing the tab took another sample. The first sleeve traveled a little too freely, and the stop came back trimmed by 0.8 mm to keep a loose squeeze off the button.
Then the panel is written to the standard that governs that market. A market running on a third standard needs its own test, and the lock is proven the same way on the same die and cavity.
They can. Each lock is its own die, so an order carrying two locks carries two dielines and two plate sets — one shipment, two tools. Volume is counted per lock, not per order.
It does. The two moves are only needed to open the pack, never to close it. Let the drawer button go and the tray relocks on its own, and a tube cap turned without the press stays shut.
Not onto an existing one. A lock is cut into the structure, so a box that already runs has no button, tab or barrel to move. The lock turns it into a new structure, with its own die and, if it is tested, its own report. That is why the lock is signed off before the artwork.
No. A die follows the lock, not the artwork. A reprint in new colors or under a new brand runs on the same die, and only the plates change. Change the lock itself and the die is cut again.
The three structures are what the shelf runs on, and each carries its own die. A pack outline outside those three is a new structure: a new die, a new cavity, and a new panel if the market asks for one.
Send the product and the market. The lock, the dieline and the test route come back on a single quote.