The Dividers Came First

CORE is the object, designed in Germany.

The starting point was not a tin. It was a problem every pouch user knows: ten or fifteen pouches in one tin, and by the afternoon nobody knows which were used yesterday, which the day before, and which are still fresh. Whether they sit in the main compartment or in the lid, with that many pouches you lose track of what you have already used. Everyone knows it, and everyone simply accepts it.

So the answer had to be dividers: a place for what is fresh and a place for what is not.

Dividers only work if they stay where you put them. Anything loose in a round tin slides the moment it is picked up, and every usual fix either fails or becomes permanent — glue, friction, foam. That is where the ring came in.

The carrier ring is the answer. It sits centred in the base and carries twenty-four detents on a fifteen degree grid. A divider drops into a detent and stops there. Move it, and it stops at the next one. Two compartments, three, four, six: the layout is a decision made after the purchase, and changed whenever it suits.

What the compartments mean is up to you: three varieties side by side, today, yesterday and the day before, or simply fresh on one side and used on the other. VALDR CORE does not set the order. You do.

And you can change it at any time. Every divider is a separate part, in a tin of stainless steel 1.4301 that renews its own protective layer in air.

Everything else follows from that ring. The outer diameter of 74,0 mm is what the ring needs. The usable height of 18,2 mm is what a divider needs to stand in. The wall thickness of 1,1 mm is what keeps the detents crisp in 1.4301.

VALDR CORE is Rev. 1. It exists as a complete CAD model with tolerances on the mating surfaces, and the first run is in preparation.

No supplier has signed yet, so this site says nothing about how the tin is made. There is no piece count for the first run, because there is no confirmed figure. There is no price, because there is no quote.

When those things are settled they will be published here, with numbers.