ES1078218U - Car washer with guide recirculation and monitor (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Car wash with water recirculation and monitor characterized by consisting of the following components - zone one: access. Consisting of an access cabin to the interior of the cleaning box, inside which is installed a control panel for selecting the cleaning process, electrical panel and access control panel. The access area consists of a lift ramp of the shopping cart. - zone two: enclosure or washing tunnel, which in turn consists of the following elements: - side guides for driving cars. - mobile portico in whose frame are anchored water nozzles and air knife. - conductions, both water and air. - transport of flexible pipes, by means of rigid gutters and cable chains, for the conduction of cleaning water. - structure, inside which the equipment is located and, for the exterior faces, static advertising supports are included. - rolling surface for cars, with conduit for water evacuation. - water collecting trays, located below the running surface. cleaning lance with pressurized water, with movement of motorized movement along the entire length of the module, by means of a guidance system. - alternatively, system for air application for drying the car (guides, motorized, flexible pipes, blower and air knives). - enclosures, which may be transparent, or as support for accessory uses, and with supports for the location of monitors. -zone three: treatment or water purification room, or engine room: consisting of a closed cabin and connected by a wall-pass to the water collection trays, which contains a water storage tank and a second tank of water. Storage and preparation of water, by introducing antibacterial treatment elements. Between one tank and another will be placed the equipment, generally membranes, of analysis of the state of the water used for cleaning. At the outlet of the second tank there is a connection system with the water lance. A third deposit may be incorporated to contain the rejection elements. This zone also incorporates grid floor on trays connected in series with filters of different pore diameters, decanters, bactericidal agent addition and a deposit prior to connection to the water lances. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

LAUNDRY CARS WITH WATER RECIRCULATION AND MONITOR

The object of the present invention is a "Car wash with water recirculation and monitor", constituted from an electro-mechanical system that performs the cleaning of shopping carts connected online that presents as a main advantage and innovation the fact that can be installed in public parking lots and includes exploitation of advertising space. In addition, the level of cleanliness may be decided in each case, and may include antibacterial action.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

There is legislation that is restrictive about the facilities that can be done in publicly accessible car parks whereby these facilities cannot be fixed, with some exceptions such as rainwater collection systems or lighting. This implies that any element installed in these areas does not require for its operation the execution of civil works, nor for water supply. In this way the device designed must be able to be installed and uninstalled without the need for civil works, it must also be based on a continuous system, with recirculation of cleaning water, among other considerations that are less restrictive.

It will be equally convenient to know the regulations regarding the construction of parking lots, according to which in the case of subways the minimum height is 2.2 meters, so the equipment must have a maximum height not exceeding 2.1 meters.

This device supports the incorporation of all types of shopping carts without distinction of size, dirt level, installed accessories or any other conditioner.

Accessory elements may be included in the device object of the invention whose function is independent of the main objective of the machine although it is important to include them in order to take advantage of the spaces that will result in the exploitation thereof. These accessory elements consist of advertising media of any kind (conventional poster, screens for broadcasting videos, others), or customer information points of the supermarket, or waste containers.

Different systems that clean the shopping carts are currently known. The most commonly used procedure consists of a manual cleaning of these equipment. As cleaning equipment (not cleaning process) there are:

1 °) An existing equipment (PURECARn carries out the cleaning of the cars separately but is not intended for use in the parking lot of the shopping center: the PureCart system consists of a compact cabin passing through which, when passing a car, a Spray unit sprays them with a liquid.Carriages are purified when they pass through the cabin after each use.The system uses a disinfectant solution without rinsing that is safe for human contact.

2nd) Patent No.: Bibliographic data: US 6090218 (A): A system based on the washing and disinfection of the basket that covers a cover that has at least one collecting tube with injectors positioned to provide at least one selected treatment area prewash, wash, disinfection, and rinse areas. It also includes air blowing with a heat source to help dry. The structure will generally consist of a linear tunnel that allows access to dirty cars at one end and the removal of cleaning cars, disinfection at the other end. A push car system can be used to transport the cars through the tunnel individually or in nested groups. An antimicrobial solution (aqueous hypochlorite) may be included. There will be a control of options and programs, application of prewash, wash, rinse and disinfection. The system of the invention can be a fixed or mobile system, preferably used on site in stores. The system will include a ticket system that will promote the use of the cleaning system among the customers of the shopping center.

3rd) Bibliographic patent number: CA 2256876 (A1): An incentive-based system for washing and disinfecting the shopping cart that includes the offer to a special consumer of the coupon that activates the device, because it is used in a lot or The continuous we process comprising a housing that has at least one tube collector with the mouths that are positioned to provide at least one selected pre-wash treatment zones, washes, those that disinfect, and the rinse and drying areas . In addition, air dried, with a heating source to help dry. Following drying, an adaptation strip especially for store coupons is optionally applied to the car user, so that the coupon can be redeemed by customers during subsequent purchases. The housing generally has an access to the tunnel for stained cars and on the opposite end a removal of disinfected cars. A car or car pusher system can be included through the tunnel (for 1 car only

or in embedded groups). A solution that disinfects, a solution of hypochlorite water, may be used. A single system of the zones allows to select the process, including or not prewash, the sequence of application is washed, rinsed, and disinfect the sound of the liquids delivered to the selected surfaces, followed by the air blown, preferably heated, to dry.

4th) Bibliographic data: US 6129417 (A): A clean shopping cart seat for use as a seat cover. The clean shopping cart seat made of a thin sheet of flexible material that has a front sleeve and a back sleeve to ensure the seat covers the child seat area of the shopping cart ...

5th) Bibliographic data: KR 100729594 (B1): A cleaning device for shopping carts, cleans easily and quickly during periods of time when the car is not being used. It includes a body (3) that has an entrance (1) formed at one end to receive the shopping cart, a unloading door (2) formed at the other end to unload the shopping cart, and a flat floor to connect the entrance to the door that unloads at an angle. The body induces a plurality of nozzles that expel at high pressure coupled to an upper side of the body by a cylinder (8) in the direction of gravity at a predetermined angle by a flexible hose, a plurality of steam that expels the elongated mouths in the direction of gravity to expel steam as the shopping cart passes through the high pressure ejection nozzles, an air brush nozzle having a plurality of air brush nozzles to expel the remaining moisture from the evaporator of the air stops in the shopping cart, a continuous conveyor of change

(21) that has protrusions, and a chain drive motor (11) to move the shopping cart.

SO) Bibliographic data: KR 20090004214 (A): A shopping cart sterilizer that gives the impression of cleaning and does not take up much space. A shopping cart sterilizer comprises: a housing in which a glass window (12) on one side of a carriage entrance, a transport unit (20) that transfers the car at constant speed and controls the separation of the final shopping cart, a part of the sterilizing procedure (30) equipped with a sterilizer housing, a sterilizer (31) that settle inside the sterilizer housing, and a position that detects the sensor (34) that detects the Transfer position of the shopping cart (1) and of the maneuver the sterilizer and an air curtain (40) that cuts the air from the sterilization and the atmosphere of the internal structure of the housing.

7 °) Bibliographic data: KR 100768771 (B1): an automatic washing and transfer system of the shopping cart is described during washing, it will remain unmoved during the cleaning process of the shopping carts to ensure washing efficiency of the interior , which will be a cargo drawer and a driving portion. An automatic washing machine system for a shopping cart comprises a carriage transporting the unit (200), a high pressure injecting the unit (300), a driving washer unit (400), an outdoor unit of the car washer (500), an indoor unit of the car washer (600), an adoring unit (700), and a drying unit (800). The car that transports from the unit continuously transfers the car to the front. The injection unit, at elevated pressure, washes the carriage's projection by injecting the water to wash from the elevated pressure. The drive washer unit washes the upper and lower surfaces (4) of the car. The outdoor unit of the car washer washes both sides of a load box (1) of the car. The indoor unit of the car washer is inserted into the carriage cargo box to remove the indoor contamination of the carriage from the top and lower the vibration. The rinsing unit eliminates contamination on the carriage surface by re-injecting the water to wash from high pressure. The drying unit removes moisture on the washed car's surface by discharging hot air.

8 °) Bibliographic data: US 2008210268 (A1): A washer and a sanitizer of the shopping cart includes an enclosure fitted with the components that facilitate the entry and exit of the shopping carts of the lamination. Inside the apparatus, there is the washing, cleaning, disinfection and drying of the cars. The device is primarily for retail sale establishments inside the use and is intended to provide each buyer with a clean and sanitary shopping cart ...

SO) Bibliographic data: CN 201291886 (Y): it is a portable shopping cart that includes a hand-pushing frame and an integral basket.

The device is considered novel as long as there are no references to a mechanism that meets all these characteristics:

Water recirculation: no continuous supply required. No work required for installation. Cleaning of cars in ristra. It is contemplated, at least, cleaning and disinfection in addition to that it can induce drying. Use of supeñicies for advertising use.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The device consists of three zones: Zone one, access. It is a cabin that will allow access to the interior of the cleaning box, and that will include inside a control panel that will allow you to select the cleaning process to be carried out depending on the state of dirt in which the cars are located or any other criterion. Inside you will find the electrical and control panel and it will be advisable to have a door to restrict access to personnel outside the maintenance center of the shopping center.

The access consists of a ramp that will raise the car to a certain height.

The exterior of its enclosures can support accessory uses such as waste collection tanks, advertising distribution posts or others. On one or both sides there will be screens that allow the emission of dynamic advertising that allows greater economic use of the dedicated space.

Zone two, tunnel or washing room. The cleaning cars are cleaned in this enclosure, which in turn consists of the following elements:

Rolling surface for cars, which must allow the evacuation through the water

Used for cleaning.

Water collection trays used for cleaning, located below the surface of

rolling

Cleaning lance with pressurized water, which can be moved (motorized) along the entire length of the

module using a guidance system for this.

Transport of flexible pipes, through rigid gutters and cable chains, for

safe driving of cleaning water.

An analogous system for hot air application may be included for drying purposes.

of the car (guides, motorized, flexible pipes, blower and air knives)

Enclosures, which can be of three types: transparent, to generate confidence in the user of

the cars and the mall, or as a support for accessory uses, or a hybrid.

Zone three, water treatment. Cab closed and connected by means of pass-wall to the water collection trays, which contains water accumulation tanks. In one case, the tank will accumulate the water used for cleaning. Before the entry of dirty water into this tank a screening will be carried out that prevents the entry of solid waste of certain characteristics. In the second tank the water that will be used for cleaning the cars will be stored and in it the preparation of this water will be carried out, introducing antibacterial treatment elements. Between one tank and another the equipment, usually membranes, which depending on the characteristics of the water in the area (hardness, origin, others) will be recommended to be used to ensure the correct state of cleanliness of the water that will be used to clean .

At the exit of the second tank is a connection system with the water lance.

There may be a third deposit to contain the rejection elements.

The enclosures of this cabin may also support accessory uses.

Advantages:

The main advantage of the device is that it allows its installation in public car parks, such as those found in shopping centers, this will allow its installation since it does not consume space in areas that can be exploited for commercial purposes.

Other advantages are:

Ecological design: water recovery minimizes the consumption of this resource. The automation of cleaning systems. Use of spaces that were previously of little or no commercial interest, such as the vertical surfaces, which will serve as advertising support.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Drawing 1 shows a section of the "Car wash with water recirculation and monitor", which shows the following elements:

10: access ramp.

20: control room.

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25: cleaning zone structure.

30: guidance system.

35: guidance system (for water lance and air knife).

40: flexible driving system.

45: mobile porch.

50: tray for collecting water from cleaning.

55: lateral guides for driving cars.

60: Cleaning room.

70: water treatment and accumulation room.

DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The invention "Car wash with water recirculation and monitor" consists of the following components:

1) Access: in it, the shopping cart [00] will be introduced into the device helped by the entrance ramp (10), it can even be helped by the integration of an auxiliary traction system, passing through the control room (20), inside of which are located on both sides side cabinets in which electrical and electronic control systems are located as well as screen and control pc for advertising exploitation and on whose outside screen is located for dynamic advertising broadcast.

2) Tunnel or washing room, inside, which is the cleaning room (60) you will find:

a) Guidance system (30) for mobile gantry (45) where water nozzles and air knife are anchored. b) Side guides for driving cars (55). e) Water collection trays (50) from cleaning. d) Ducts (40), both water and air, for transfer from the engine room to the point of use. e) Structure (25). These equipment will be located inside and the outer faces will be used as

static advertising support (posters). There may be some area destined to inspect from the outside the cleaning work that is carried out inside (transparent surface).

3) In the water purification room, or machine room [70], the antibacterial treatment and purification systems will be located as well as the generation of air for drying. The generic water recovery process can have the following phases:

one.

Fence of fines

2.

Fat separator

3.

Filtration by cartridges.

Four.

Filtration with activated carbon.

5. Disinfection by ozone and saturation of water with ozone to produce disinfection in the car.

The water recovery and treatment system may vary depending on the needs of each particular location.

Claims (2)

1.-Car wash with water recirculation and monitor characterized by consisting of the following components: Zone one: access. Consisting of an access booth inside the cleaning box, inside which a control panel for cleaning process selection, electrical panel and access control panel is installed. The access area consists of a ramp to lift the shopping cart. Zone two: enclosure or car wash, which in turn consists of the following elements:

o Side guides for driving cars.

o Mobile gantry in whose frame water nozzles and air knife are anchored.

o Conductions, both water and air.

o Transport of flexible pipes, by means of rigid gutters and cable chains, for the conduction of cleaning water

o Structure, in whose interior the equipment is located and, by the external faces, static advertising supports are included.

o Sudancy of rolling for cars, with conduit for the evacuation of the water.

o Water collection trays, located below the rolling overhang.

o Cleaning lance with pressurized water, with motorized displacement movement along the entire length of the module, by means of a guidance system.

o Alternatively, system for application of air for drying the car (guides, motorized, flexible pipes, blower and air knives)

o Enclosures, which may be transparent, or as a support for accessory uses, and with supports for monitor placement.

Zone three: treatment or water purification room, or machine room: consisting of a closed cabin and connected by a wall-pass to the water collection trays, which contains a water storage tank and a second storage tank and water preparation, by introducing antibacterial treatment elements. Between a tank and another the equipment, generally membranes, of analysis of the state of the water used for cleaning will be located. At the exit of the second tank is a connection system with the water lance. A third deposit may be incorporated to contain the rejection elements. This area also incorporates grating floors on trays connected in series with fiHros of different pore diameters, decanters, bactericidal agent additive and a reservoir prior to the connection to the water lances. 2. Car wash with water recirculation and monitor according to claim 1, characterized in that along the entire car wash tunnel there are linear guides for moving the cars, on which a porch is incorporated to which both the anchorages are anchored. Water spears like air knives. Cars will travel by motorized transmission.