Metal foil insulation, especially for nuclear reactor installations
First Claim
1. Metal-foil insulation formed of a multiplicity of substantially rectangular-shaped, air-enclosing metal foils disposed laterally adjacent and above one another and provided with spacers therebetween, the metal foils being packageable in thermally displaceable relationship into panels with connecting means for maintaining the foils in packaged condition, the panels, in turn, being mutually alignable with sealable joints in a plurality of coordinate directions, comprising bends formed in marginal zones of at least one side of an upper and a lower side of the metal foils in the respective panels, said bends having a shape and a shape elasticity such as to be deformable by a packaging force to a spacing between mutually adjacent metal foils determined by the spacers therebetween, the metal foils packaged into the respective panels being disposed with said bends thereof substantially linearly and sealingly engaging one another, the panels being formed as cassettes closed at one side at least of an upper and a lower side thereof by at least one sheet of a cover and a bottom sheet, said cassettes being open at the sides thereof, said bends of the metal foils being disposed on at least one side of a cover and a bottom side thereof and, in packaged condition of said cassettes, being movable into engagement linearly and sealingly with inner sides of said at least one sheet of said cover and said bottom sheets.
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Abstract
Metal-foil insulation formed of a multiplicity of substantially rectangular-shaped, air-enclosing metal foils disposed laterally adjacent and above one another and provided with spacers therebetween, the metal foils being packageable in thermally displaceable relationship into panels with connecting means for maintaining the foil in packaged condition, the panels, in turn being mutually alignable with sealable joints in a plurality of coordinate directions, includes bends formed in marginal zones of at least one side of an upper and a lower side of the metal foils in the respective panels, the bends having a shape and a shape elasticity such as to be deformable by a packaging force to a spacing between mutually adjacent metal foils determined by the spacers therebetween, the metal foils packaged into the respective panels being disposed with the bends thereof substantially linearly and sealingly engaging one another.
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- 1. Metal-foil insulation formed of a multiplicity of substantially rectangular-shaped, air-enclosing metal foils disposed laterally adjacent and above one another and provided with spacers therebetween, the metal foils being packageable in thermally displaceable relationship into panels with connecting means for maintaining the foils in packaged condition, the panels, in turn, being mutually alignable with sealable joints in a plurality of coordinate directions, comprising bends formed in marginal zones of at least one side of an upper and a lower side of the metal foils in the respective panels, said bends having a shape and a shape elasticity such as to be deformable by a packaging force to a spacing between mutually adjacent metal foils determined by the spacers therebetween, the metal foils packaged into the respective panels being disposed with said bends thereof substantially linearly and sealingly engaging one another, the panels being formed as cassettes closed at one side at least of an upper and a lower side thereof by at least one sheet of a cover and a bottom sheet, said cassettes being open at the sides thereof, said bends of the metal foils being disposed on at least one side of a cover and a bottom side thereof and, in packaged condition of said cassettes, being movable into engagement linearly and sealingly with inner sides of said at least one sheet of said cover and said bottom sheets.
- 16. Metal-foil insulation formed of a multiplicity of substantially rectangular-shaped, air-enclosing metal foils disposed laterally adjacent and above one another and provided with spacers therebetween, the metal foils being packageable in thermally displaceable relationship into panels with connecting means for maintaining the foils in packaged condition, the panels, in turn, being mutually alignable with sealable joints in a plurality of coordinate directions, comprising bends formed in marginal zones of at least one side of an upper and a lower side of the metal foils in the respective panels, said bends having a shape and a shape elasticity such as to be deformable by a packaging force to a spacing between mutually adjacent metal foils determined by the spacers therebetween, the metal foils packaged into the respective panels being disposed with said bends thereof substantially linearly and sealingly engaging one another, said foils being enclosed by sheets in cassettes closed on all sides thereof, said cassettes at upper and lower end faces thereof having a step-shaped fold, said foils at an upper sheet being sealingly fastened to an adjacent chamber and being loosely disposed upright below a step-shaped sheet of the fold.
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