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SPACER AND RETAINER MEANS OF HEAT INSULATING MATERIAL INTERCONNECTING AN OUTER NON-INSULATING WALL POST WITH A PAIR OF ADJACENT GENERALLY COPLANAR HEAT INSULATING WALL SECTIONS HAVING SLIGHTLY SPACED GENERALLY PARALLEL EDGES, SAID MEANS COMPRISING AN ELONGATED SPACER ELEMENT HAVING A PAIR OF OPPOSED END PORTIONS, THE ONE END PORTION HAVING ALONG ITS LENGTH AN END ATTACHMENT MEANS ATTACHING THE ONE END PORTION OF THE SPACER ELEMENT WITH THE POST AND THE OTHER END PORTION HAVING ALONG ITS LENGTH A PAIR OF DIVERGING GENERALLY EQUAL END LEG SECTIONS TO DEFINE A RETAINER END PORTION RECEPTACLE, EACH LEG SECTION HAVING AT ITS FREE END AN END FLANGE TRANSVERSE THERETO AND IN FLUSH ENGAGEMENT WITH A RESPECTIVE WALL SECTION, EACH FLANGE LYING GENERALLY IN A COMMON PLANE AND HAVING A FIRST END EXTENDING IN A DIRECTION AWAY FROM SAID RECEPTACLE AND A SECOND END EXTENDING OVER THE RETAINER END PORTION RECEPTACLE TOWARDS BUT SPACED FROM ITS COUNTERPART ON THE OTHER LEG TO DEFINE A GENERALLY ELONGATED PASSAGEWAY, SAID SECOND END BEING FLEXIBLE AND DEFLECTABLE INTO THE RECEPTACLE, AN ELONGATED GENERALLY T-SHAPED RETAINER ATTACHED TO SAID SPACER, SAID RETAINER HAVING A TONGUE EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID SPACED PANEL EDGES INTO SAID RECEPTACLE AND A GENERALLY BOWED RESILIENT BATTEN EXTENDING ACROSS ONE END OF SAID TONGUE AND OVERLYING THE SPACED EDGES OF SAID WALL SECTIONS, SAID TONGUE HAVING AN ENLARGEMENT ON THE END OPPOSITE FROM THE BATTEN, SAID ENLARGEMENT BEING OF GREATER TRANSVERSE DIMENSION THAN SAID PASSAGEWAY WHEREBY SAID SECOND FLANGE ENDS SERVE TO RETAIN SAID TONGUE IN SAID RECEPTACLE, SAID BATTEN BEING HOLD IN TENSION FIXED POSITION WHEREBY SAID BATTEN SERVES TO HOLD SAID SECTIONS IN FIRM ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID FLANGES.