Hi all, "Hotter than hell" is the message from the Devil´s logo of the manufacturer of this parabolic heater; the gasoline fed "Garba Serie B", made around 1925 of the Andre Garbarini company, André Garbarini, 23 Colombes - Courbevoie, Paris. André Garbarini was an engineer and inventor with patents from 1919 and onwards. He was a diversified inventor in many fields, electric arc lamps, cinematography projectors, automobile headlights reflectors, pumping apparatus and electrical signal systems. He made several patents for parabolic radiators between 1922 - 1925; even here for diversified fuel sources as gas, kerosene and gasoline, that can be seen in the 1925 Garbarini paper "Les Radiateurs Paraboliques "Garba". The earliest 1923 gasoline version of the Garba heater had a burner unit built after the French Lumiere Noel company burner "Bec Eblouissant" (seen here by @Titoo 1922-1924 Aandré garbarini Heater. ). In 1925 Garbarine built its "own" original gasoline integrated burner unit ("gazièficateur surchaffè" ) with built-in pre-heater cup. This burner unit comes from a 1925 patent, that is now present on my heater. The wire guard and the original asbestos mantle are missing on this heater and I had to use a steel wire mesh mantle I earlier made for other French parabolic radiators. It cleaned up nicely and made my work shop hot as h*ll. /Conny Three of my 18 French parabolic heaters shown in a Dider-Botin ad in 1927 ....
That is a nice heater and does seem to be very warm indeed ! Interesting burner, vapouriser and preheat arrangement Could i ask if the silver coloured elbow a type of alloy please? thanks
Thanks Conny ! Just shows how much heat that alloy can stand in use and with the pre heat flames on it ! regards p
Dear Conny, It's fantastic i'am very happy that you have managed to bring into your collection the flames of the devil. The parabolic radiators of Mr. Garbarini seem quite rare with time and patience they rise to the surface surely others will follow with time, this one with mine is the second that I see complete and functional for the 1925 model B. I have two models one from 1923 with the Noël burner and the same as yours 1925 model B. The construction of these is solid all the parts are machined in the mass the needle and nozzle system had at the time impressed me a lot by their dimensions. Now you have a beautiful set of French parabolic heaters in your collection. Congratulations. Regards, Titoo.
