Thermal insulators

Claim 1

THERMAL INSULATOR APPLIED AGAINST A WALL, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SEALED TUBES CONTAINING A FLUID, ARRANGED WITH THEIR LONGITUDINAL AXES EXTENDING PARALLEL TO ONE ANOTHER AND PARALLEL TO SAID WALL, ASSEMBLY MEANS FOR CONNECTING SAID TUBES IN A PLURALITY OF DISTINCT BUNDLES, IN THE FORM OF PRISMS, EACH CONSTITUTED BY AN ASSEMBLY OF SAID TUBES JUXTAPOSED IN A PLURALITY OF SUPERIMPOSED LAYERS, THIN ANTI-CONVECTION SHEETS INSERTED BETWEEN AT LEAST SOME OF SAID LAYERS, AND SAID BUNDLES PRESENTING IN PROFILE, TWO OPPOSITE PARALLEL END FACES, AND LATERAL FACES CONNECTING SAID END FACES, THE FIRST OF SAID END FACES BEING LARGER THAN THE SECOND, FIXING MEANS FOR FIXING ALTERNATE BUNDLES ON THE WALL WITH THE SECOND OF SAID END FACES AGAINST SAID WALL, WHILST THE OTHER BUNDLE PRESENT THE FIRST OF THEIR SAID END FACES AGAINST SAID WALL AND ARE HELD IN PLACE AGAINST THE LATTER BY SAID ALTERNATE BUNDLES, SO THAT SAID BUNDLES ARE STACKED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER ALONG SAID WALL IN A DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE AXES OF SAID TUBES, A PERFORATED SCREEN DISPOSED PARALLEL TO SAID WALL, AND MEANS FOR FIXING SAID SCREEN TO SAID ASSEMBLY MEANS ON THAT END FACE WHICH IS OPPOSITE TO THE END FACE CONTACTING SAID WALL.