Pre-engineered buildings require insulation for heating and cooling due to thin metal paneling. Buildings lose heat highly through the roof. To lessen building heat loss, contractors install insulation between purlins. During construction, contractors may need temporary support for insulation. The insulation retaining member provides temporary support with a tube and a hook assembled into a walking cane like shape. The hook has a general J shape with a shank and an opposite barb. The shank inser...

A sandwich panel multi-sided structure mountable on a vehicle body, as a pick-up truck or trailer. The structure is formed from a single flat sandwich panel comprising a bendable sheet metal facing and a rigid plywood facing bonded to opposite sides of a plastic foam core. The core is a compressible expanded polystyrene foam. The panel is provided with spaced pairs of transverse grooves extended through the rigid plywood facing toward the bendable metal facing. The grooves are along the corner s...

A metallic wall clad with thermal insulation has a layer of insulating blocks spaced from the wall, the blocks being spaced apart and each block being individually and rigidly secured to the wall, the interspaces being substantially closed against convectional flow of liquid by resilient closure members, and a membrane covering for the layer of blocks, the covering having venting means to allow liquid from the vessel to penetrate between the covering and the wall.

The invention relates to a method and a device for stripping a cable end section (13), comprising a novel measuring system in which the length of the inserted cable end section is determined during the insertion itself.

A plurality of sheet supports 50 or 70 of approximate rectangular configuration are placed on adjacent purlins 14 of a partially completed roof of an industrial building, about the second row of roof insulation support carriages 10. When the carriages are advanced along the lengths of the purlins to apply the sheet material 34 to the purlins, the sheet supports 50 or 70 move in unison with the carriages of the second row of carriages and the rear segment 54 supports the sheet material in the spa...

A retaining device for securing insulation to sheet metal has a flange, an articulated structure and a push plate having an aperture therethrough such that when the retainer, except for the flange, is inserted in a hole in the insulation layer it allows a push plate to be pushed towards the flange, causing a pair of locking fingers to pivot and press up against the underside of the insulation in a locked position. The retaining device is then frictionally fitted over a stud member on the sheet m...

Disclosed are fibrous structures comprised of shaped fibers wherein the thickness of the compressed fibrous structure at 1.00 psi is .gtoreq.1.3 times that of a similar compressed structure having the same area density and made from round cross section fibers of the same dpf as the shaped fibers. The invention is useful in articles such as coats, gloves, boats, shoes, etc. made using the structures disclosed herein. The surprising feature of structures according to the present invention is the t...

The internal capillary insulation comprises cellular material secured to the internal wall of a vessel which is to contain liquid having a boiling temperature lower than the ambient temperature of the vessel. The cellular material disclosed provides a plurality of discrete cells. Each cell provides for establishing a column of gas therein between the tank wall and the liquid body. A capillary cover substantially closes the liquid side of the cells and has at least one capillary opening per cell ...

Oil pipelines through permafrost regions in the earth are thermally insulated therefrom by atmospheric air flow passageways arranged to direct atmospheric air down along a first path close to the permafrost soil and then back up between the first path and the oil pipeline.

A hanger assembly for securing refractory linings to furnace walls which includes an elongate rectangular stud welded at one end to a supporting wall and the opposite end extending substantially perpendicular from the wall and including therein a plurality of opposed notches cut into the opposed narrower sides. A relatively thin retaining clip formed of sheet material is provided and includes an aperture therein of complementary configuration to the rectangular stud. The clip is inserted over th...