Double-walled thermally insulated container

Claim 1

A DOUBLE-WALLED, VACUUM-INSULATED CONTAINER WHICH COMPRISES AN INNER VESSEL; AN OUTER JACKET ENCLOSING SAID INNER VESSEL AND SPACED THEREFROM TO PROVIDE AN EVACUATED INSULATION SPACE THEREBETWEEN; A CONDUIT CONNECTED AT OPPOSITE ENDS TO A RIM OF AN OPENING IN SAID OUTER JACKET AND TO A RIM OF AN OPENING IN SAID INNER VESSEL AND EXTENDING THROUGH SUCH SPACE, SAID CONDUIT HAVING SMALLER CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA THAN SAID INNER VESSEL SUCH THAT SAID INSULATION SPACE IS WIDER BETWEEN THE CONDUIT AND OUTER JACKET THAN BETWEEN SAID INNER VESSEL AND SAID OUTER JACKET; A COMPOSITE MULTI-LAYERED INSULATION DISPOSED WITHIN SAID SPACE COMPRISING LOW CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL AND RADIANT HEAT BARRIER MATERIAL; AND A PLURALITY OF LOW CONDUCTIVE, COMPRESSIBLE SPACERS SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORMLY INTERPOSITIONED IN SAID COMPOSITE MULTI-LAYERED INSULATION ACROSS SAID SPACE IN THE VICINITY OF SAID CONDUIT IN SUPERIMPOSED RELATION TO EACH OTHER AND ALIGNED PARALLEL TO THE CONDUIT LONGITUDINAL AXIS SUCH THAT THE LOW CONDUCTIVE AND RADIANT HEAT BARRIER COMPONENTS OF SAID COMPOSITE MULTI-LAYERED INSULATION ARE UNIFORMLY SEPARATED ACROSS SAID SPACE IN THE VICINITY OF SAID CONDUIT.