Containers made of cardboard or paper

Abstract

In a container (1) made of cardboard or paper for holding filled or topped fast food items, which container (1) consists of a plurality of essentially rectangular, conically tapered modules (2) whose edge regions (14) overlap each other in the vertical direction of the container (1) and one of the modules (2) having a free edge (14) has a closed bottom (3) in the area of ​​the free edge (14), each module (2) has a different size in the vertical direction of the container (1) compared to its neighboring module (2), the plurality of modules (2) are designed to be displaceable relative to each other and each pair of adjacent modules (2) are connected by at least one, preferably two, inseparably fixed to both adjacent modules (2), a plurality of fold lines (11) and a connecting tab (5) having a length exceeding the distance between two fixing points on adjacent modules (2).