Tea bag dispenser
A modular tea bag dispenser for an organized kitchen. By having the outlet slanted at a 45-degree angle you can always see which tea is inside and can remove them one by one ergonomically with one hand. The slit in the center of the lid allows for easy monitoring of how many remain. You can quickly and easily remove the design from the rail to fil up on your table. The removable cover also serves for quick untangling if the bags happen to get stuck. The extra weight makes sure that the ergonomic removal also works when there are few bags remaining.
The maximum tea bag size is 66x76 mm and it fits up to 25 bags.
This design is part of my “Raily” wall organization system. The rails are included but I recommend checking out the base set for more parts.
Parts
- Tea bag dispenser: Body, lid and weight
- Rails: 3 sizes from 100 to 300 mm. 100 mm long end pieces are also included for a cleaner look.
Instructions
- Print your parts
- Place your rails. You can either screw or glue them onto your wall. I like to use 3M tape. The screw holes have a diameter of 5.5 mm, and they are always 100 mm apart. Insert the weight into the pocket.
- Place the body horizontally on your table and fill it up with tea bags
- Slide on the lid (if you stuffed a few too many inside which is definitely doable – you have to press them down slightly while closing the lid)
- Place the dispenser onto the rail
- Take out the bags one by one with your thumb as seen in the images.
- To fix a tangle – you can slide the lid up slightly with your middle finger.
- To refill the design, remove it from the rail
Print settings Required build volume: 190 x 190 x 250 mm Material usage: 160 g per dispenser
- Material: PLA
- Print direction: files are rotated correctly
- Support: none
- Nozzle size: 0,4 mm
- Line width: 0,4 mm
- Layer height 0,2 mm
- Build plate adhesion type: none
Body, Lid and Rails print in default settings. Only the Weight needs more weight, so increased infill and shell thickness makes sense. Below is a suggestion.
Body, Lid and Rails
- Outer walls: default
- Top/Bottom Layers: default
- Infill: 15%
Weight
- Outer walls: 5
- Top/Bottom Layers: 6
- Infill: 15%
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Lol 😆
Oh the singlular rail is cool! I added that to my improvement list for a V1.1 What do you mean by "there was no checkmark in the list?" - did i forget something?
I like this design and they print very nicely. However, the problem I foresee is that they will easily pop off the French cleat. I printed it in PETG and it all fits together nicely, but it's very slick on that cleat. Need to figure out how to make it a bit more firmly attached otherwise I fear that opening the cabinet door or when removing a bag it will have a good chance of popping off. Don't want to print a bunch to get my tea all organized and then get frustrated by this issue.
So I have been thinking about adding the same little clip as for the other raily elements to hold it tight. Downside would be that you can only remove them sideways - would you like that?
Love the look of these. Does the body need support when printing?
I needed supports under the part that connects to the wall. Brim also needed to prevent that part falling over. Recovered plastic by dropping walls to 2 and infill to 10%. Working great!
It does not need support, you can bridge this holder cut out - but if you feel more comportable with support that also works :)
Is it at all possible to adjust the height/length without changing the rail dimensions? Or maybe printing it flat? Or would that mess things up?
Printing it flat maybe with support. I would not scale this, although you can try! I have a shorter version on my improvement list but I can't promise anything time wise
I very like the design! Is there also a shorter Version? Maybe half size or parametric?
Short in for how many tea bags? The current one is for 25