Abstract: The invention relates to an insulating member and a method of producing said member. Such an insulating member consists of two sheet metal walls 1, 2, a sealing profile 3 connecting the walls 1, 2 hermetically at the edge, and dimensionally stable sealing material 4, more particularly an open-pored cellular material, which is accommodated in the evacuated cavity formed by the walls 1, 2 and the sealing profile 3 hermetically connected thereto. The sealing material 4 is dimensionally stable and supports the walls 1, 2. To improve the insulating effect of the insulating member in the edge zone also, the hermetic connection of the sealing profile 3 to the walls 1, 2 takes the form of a heat sealing, and the sealing profile itself does not consist of sheet metal, but of a material having a lower thermal conductivity, low vapour permeability and satisfactory hot sealing properties.

Abstract: Box-shaped structures, such as buildings. Such boxed-shape structures can include modular boxes. Other conceivable forms are paneled elements in plane and curved three-dimensional shapes, which may be used in such box-shaped structures. The paneled elements, in such a case, will be integrable with other paneled elements to form such box-shaped structures. The present invention can overcome the disadvantage encountered with many known vessels, containers and other similar structures, that they tend to be very complex and expensive to manufacture, or tend not to meet all of the requirements associated with such vessels, containers and other similar structures.

Abstract: A thermal insulating body, or molding, for thermal insulation, consisting of a shell which can be evacuated and which is filled with a solid, microporous thermal insulating material, is characterized by the fact that at least the end surfaces (3) of the shell (1) consist of material which is a poor thermal conductor, that the microporous thermal insulation material consists of compression-proof and baked fibrillar micro glass fibers, and that the fibrillar micro glass fibers are compacted and pressed into three-dimensional panels (4).