Futurola 1 1/4 Classic White Cones, 5,400 Case | 84/26, Half Gram

What Comes in a Case of Futurola 1 1/4 Classic White Cones

A case is six boxes of 900 cones, 5,400 in total, and that packing matters on a production bench. A box of 900 is close to what one filling station consumes in a shift. Opening one box at a time keeps the rest sealed, which protects the paper from humidity. The cone itself is the 84/26 reference, an 84 mm paper on a 26 mm filter tip. Capacity is about half a gram, give or take. Crown diameter is 10.8 mm on a 5.3 mm base. That sits at the bottom of the band a Knockbox Standard plate is cut for. The paper is the Classic White grade. Futurola close the seam with gum from the acacia tree. Futurola also sell this size with a printed tip and with a plain tip under separate references. A commercial quantity like this rewards a dry, dark storage spot more than most paper does.

Planning a Week Around a 5,400 Cone Case

A 5,400 cone case changes how a room plans a week rather than a day. At half a gram each, a full case takes roughly 2.7 kilograms of material to fill. That arithmetic is worth doing early, because paper and material need to land together. Six boxes also give a natural batch boundary. One box per strain or per run keeps labelling honest and makes a recount quick. Humidity is the real enemy of a bulk case. A damp cone creases at the crown when a plate loads it, and the loss shows up as waste rather than as a fault. Keep boxes closed and off a concrete floor and the paper behaves months later. Tips are the other thing to watch in storage. A crushed tip will not seat in a funnel, and a flattened box is where crushed tips come from. Hand rolling works from the same case, though the value of this quantity is really in machine filling. On a Knockbox the 1 1/4 is the half-gram multipack format, filled from the same plate as a king size.

Key Features

• Case of 5,400 cones: Packed as six boxes of 900, which gives a usable batch boundary on a bench.
• 84/26 geometry: An 84 mm cone on a 26 mm filter tip, the size Futurola call 1 1/4.
• About half a gram: The rated capacity for this size, plus or minus 0.5 g.
• Crown 10.8 mm, base 5.3 mm: The dimensions that decide which plate and mix tray the cone needs.
• Classic White paper: The white grade, at 84 mm on a 26 mm filter tip.
• Acacia gum seal: Futurola close the seam with gum from the acacia tree.

Technical Specifications