Device for the protection of heat-recovery boiler screens, in particular for garbage incinerators, these screens being constructed using vertical tubes (1, 14) joined together by welded joining ribs (17) installed behind fireproof bricks and equipped with means for fastening to said bricks, said tubes having vertical fastening ribs (2, 11;
- 3, 13) forming an angle of between 30.degree. and 60.degree. with the plane of the joining ribs, which are made discontinuous at intervals on the vertical sections of the tubes, a first series of fireproof bricks (4, 5) having, in their lower portion, vertical grooves (2A, 3A) having a width and thickness corresponding to those of the auxiliary ribs, and extending over only a fraction of their height beginning at the base and being fastened onto the upper portion of the auxiliary ribs, a fireproof cement being spread between the fireproof bricks on the one hand, and the tubes and the ribs on the other;
- wherein a second series of bricks (6, 18), alternating with the bricks of the first series, has at its upper and lower ends, inside recesses (9, 10) imparting to them a general dovetail shape, and wherein the bricks making up the first series have corresponding recesses (7, 8) ensuring the interlocking in position of the bricks composing the second series.