JP2008024240A - Washing brush for car washing machine, and car washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a washing brush for a car washing machine, and a car washing machine capable of reducing the manufacturing cost, and enhancing the washing effect while enhancing the silence when washing a car body. <P>SOLUTION: In the washing brush for a car washing machine for washing a car or a vehicle, the washing brush for the car washing machine has a shaft body 2 and a brush body 1. Fixed parts 2a for fixing the brush body 1 are formed at a plurality of parts in the longitudinal direction of the shaft body, mounting parts 1a are formed at a plurality of parts of the brush body 1, and the mounting parts 1a are fitted to the fixed parts 2a. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a car wash machine installed in a gas station or the like and a washing brush for a car wash machine used in the car wash machine.

There are various conventional washing brushes for car wash machines. For example, there is one in which a plurality of spiral mounting grooves are formed on the outer periphery of a rotating shaft, and a plurality of brushes are connected to the mounting grooves and attached (Patent Document 1).
Further, a plurality of disk-shaped brush bodies are attached to the outer periphery of the rotating shaft, and the outer periphery of the disk-shaped brush body is bent so that peaks and valleys are alternately formed. There is a thing (patent document 2).

JP 2005-170221 A Japanese Patent No. 3585178

  The technique described in the above-mentioned conventional Patent Document 1 requires an operation of assembling a plurality of brushes in a spiral mounting groove, resulting in high costs. Further, the technique described in Patent Document 2 requires a bending process, and the cleaning effect is not improved for the manufacturing cost. In addition, it is necessary to reduce the flutter generated by the brush body coming into contact with the body surface during cleaning.

  In view of the above points, an object of the present invention is to provide a washing brush for a car wash machine and a car wash machine capable of reducing the manufacturing cost and increasing the washing effect while improving the quietness at the time of washing the vehicle body.

  The invention of claim 1 is a washing brush for a car washing machine for car washing or vehicle washing, wherein the washing brush for car washing machine has a shaft body and a brush body, and a plurality of locations in the longitudinal direction of the shaft body A fixing portion for fixing the brush body is formed, and mounting portions are formed at a plurality of locations of the brush body, and the mounting portion is attached to the fixing portion. Therefore, it is easy to attach the brush body to the shaft body.

  The invention of claim 2 relates to a car brush washing brush for car washing or vehicle washing, wherein the car washing machine washing brush has a shaft body and a brush body, and a plurality of locations in the longitudinal direction of the shaft body. A fixing portion for fixing the brush body is formed, and mounting portions are formed at a plurality of locations of the brush body, and the mounting portion before mounting to the fixing portion is fixed to the shaft body adjacent to the fixing body. It is characterized in that the distance between adjacent mounting parts of the brush body is longer than the distance between the parts. Therefore, when the brush body is mounted on the shaft body, the brush body is longer, so the brush body is not a flat surface but is a curved surface, and is wavy when viewed from the end direction.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a car brush washing brush for car washing or vehicle washing, wherein the car washing machine washing brush has a shaft body and a brush body, and the lower end of the brush body is curved. A mounting portion for fixing the shaft body is provided in the vicinity of the lower end. Therefore, when the brush body is attached to the shaft body, the end portion on the shaft body side of the brush body can be made linear while the end portion on the opposite side can be made wavy.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a washing brush for a car washing machine for car washing or vehicle washing, wherein the washing brush for a car washing machine has a shaft body and a brush body, and a plurality of locations in the longitudinal direction of the brush body. The attachment portion provided on the shaft body is fixed to the shaft body so that the brush body has an inclination angle with respect to the longitudinal direction of the shaft body. Therefore, when the brush body is mounted on the shaft body, the brush body becomes a curved surface, and when viewed from the end direction, the brush body becomes wavy.

  The invention of claim 5 comprises a drive source, a cleaning agent sprayed on the surface to be cleaned, a nozzle for ejecting water, and a drying means for drying the surface to be cleaned after cleaning. The car wash machine in which the washing brush for car wash machines of any one of 4 is mounted has the characteristics. Accordingly, since the end of the brush body is wavy, only a part of the wavy brush body comes into contact with the surface of the vehicle body to be cleaned, and the quietness is improved.

  In the invention of claim 1, the shaft body and the brush body can be easily attached, and in the inventions of claim 2, claim 3 and claim 4, since the brush body is wave-shaped, the quietness and the cleaning effect are enhanced. . In the invention of claim 5, it is possible to provide a car wash machine capable of reducing the cost while improving the quietness and the cleaning effect.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a first embodiment of the present invention. The brush body 1 shown to Fig.1 (a) is manufactured with the fabric, and the some slit 3 ... is formed in one edge part. In addition, a plurality of attachment portions 1a to be attached to the fixed portion 2a of the shaft body 2 are formed at the other end portion at a predetermined interval. The shaft body 2 shown in FIG. 1B is made of metal, and a plurality of fixing portions 2a are formed in two upper and lower rows at a predetermined interval in the longitudinal direction. Therefore, by attaching the mounting portion 1a of the brush body 1 to the fixed portion 2a of the shaft body 2, the sectional view of FIG. Here, 6 is a rivet that joins the fabric and the attachment portion 1 a, and 7 is a screw that attaches the attachment portion to the fixing portion 2 a of the shaft body 2. Thereby, the washing brush 66 for car wash machines as shown in FIG. 1D can be easily manufactured.

  Here, the fabric which is the brush body 1 is formed of a woven fabric obtained by plain weaving polyester fibers. In addition, a polyester fiber can also be formed and used as a woven fabric by a twill weave. Furthermore, the fabric may be formed as a non-woven fabric by a method such as hydroentanglement, thermocompression bonding, chemical binder adhesion, or the like, and the fabric may be used by knitting polyester fibers to form a knitted fabric. In addition to the above-mentioned polyester, there is no problem even if synthetic fibers such as polyamide fibers, polyethylene fibers, polypropylene fibers and acrylic fibers, and natural fibers such as cotton, rayon and silk are used alone or in combination. . In addition to the above, the brush body 1 may be made of any synthetic resin foam, film-like resin composition, synthetic resin fiber, synthetic leather, artificial leather, or other leather alone or in combination with the above materials. There is no.

  FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a second embodiment of the present invention. The brush body 10 shown to Fig.2 (a) is manufactured with the fabric, and the some slit 3 ... is formed in one edge part. In addition, a plurality of attachment portions 10a to be attached to the fixed portion 20a of the shaft body 20 are formed at the other end portion at intervals of a length L1. The shaft body 20 shown in FIG. 2B is made of metal, and fixed portions 20a are formed at intervals of L2 in grooves 20b formed in the longitudinal direction.

  Here, the interval L1 between the attachment portions 10a is longer than the interval L2 between the fixed portions. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 2C, when the mounting portion 10a of the brush body 10 is attached to the fixing portion 20a of the shaft body 20, the brush body 10 is left over, so the brush body 10 is attached to the end portion. When viewed from the direction, it is wavy. As a result, when the brush for a car wash machine is used in a car wash machine, when the shaft body 20 is rotated, a part of the wave-like brush body 10 sequentially comes into contact with the vehicle body, thereby suppressing flickering noise. In addition, the cleaning effect can be enhanced.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a third embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3A, the end of the brush body 30 on the shaft body 20 side is curved. A mounting portion 30a is formed in the vicinity of the end on the shaft body 20 side. Further, the end of the shaft body 20 on the opposite side (vehicle body contact side) is linear. By doing in this way, as shown in FIG.3 (c), when the brush body 30 is mounted | worn with the shaft body 20, the edge part by the side of the vehicle body contact of the brush body 30 becomes a wave shape from which height differs. Accordingly, the vehicle body can be cleaned with different pressing forces, and it is possible to easily cope with the unevenness and the bent surface of the vehicle body and to enhance the cleaning effect.
In FIG. 3B, both ends of the brush body 40 on the shaft body 20 side and the vehicle body contact side are curved. A mounting portion 40a is formed in the vicinity of the end on the shaft body 20 side. By doing so, as shown in FIG. 3D, when the brush body 40 is mounted on the shaft body 20, the end of the brush body 40 on the vehicle body contact side has a wave shape with the same height. . Therefore, the contact area with the vehicle body is widened, and it is possible to easily cope with the unevenness and the bent surface of the vehicle body and to enhance the cleaning effect.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4A, a fixed portion 50a is formed on the outer periphery of the shaft body 50 so as to be wavy with a predetermined interval. 4B, the mounting portion 10a of the brush body 10 is attached to the fixing portion 50a of the shaft body 50 so that the fixing portion 50a has an inclination angle θ with respect to the longitudinal direction of the shaft body 50. It is. Then, the brush body 10 becomes wavy. Therefore, as in the second embodiment and the third embodiment, when this car wash brush is used in a car wash machine, when the shaft body 50 is rotated, a part of the wavy brush body 10 is sequentially applied to the vehicle body. Since they come into contact with each other, the fluttering noise can be suppressed and the cleaning effect can be enhanced.

  Next, FIG. 5 is a front view of a car wash machine equipped with the car brush washing brush of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the car wash machine 67 is equipped with the car wash machine cleaning brush 66, and the car wash machine cleaning brush 66 is rotated by a drive source 68. From the nozzle 69, a cleaning agent and water are sprayed on the surface to be cleaned, and the surface is cleaned by a cleaning brush 66 for a car wash machine. Is done.

  The car wash machine 67 has a high washability without damaging the surface to be cleaned, and can reduce or suppress the contact sound at the time of washing as much as possible, and is equipped with a washing brush 66 for a car wash machine having a wavy brush body. Therefore, it comes into partial contact with the surface to be cleaned sequentially. Therefore, the car wash machine 67 can set the high speed rotation of the car wash machine cleaning brush 66, and can suppress the fluttering noise even when the washing time is set to a short time, and has high washability with no washing residue. Is granted. Further, even when the rotation of the washing brush 66 for the car wash machine is suddenly changed from the low speed rotation to the high speed rotation, the same action as described above is given to the car wash machine 67. Therefore, it is possible to provide a car wash machine 67 that does not damage the vehicle body that is the surface to be cleaned, and that can exhibit extremely high cleanability that can reduce or suppress contact noise during cleaning as much as possible.

  In addition, it cannot be overemphasized that various embodiment can be taken in the range which does not deviate from the meaning of this invention. For example, in FIG. 1 (c), the mounting portion 1a is fixed to the fixing portion 2a of the shaft body 2 with the screw 7. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a groove is formed in the shaft body 2 instead of the screw 7. It is good also as a structure which forms and attaches the attaching part 1a to this groove | channel.

  The washing brush for a car wash machine and the car wash machine of the present invention are mainly used as a car wash machine for washing dirt or the like adhering to an automobile or a surface to be washed of a vehicle, and a washing brush for a car wash machine mounted on the car wash machine use.

It is explanatory drawing which shows 1st Embodiment of the washing brush for car wash machines which concerns on this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows 2nd Embodiment of the washing brush for car wash machines which concerns on this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows 3rd Embodiment of the washing brush for car wash machines which concerns on this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows 4th Embodiment of the washing brush for car wash machines which concerns on this invention. It is a front view of the car wash machine carrying the washing brush for car wash machines of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

1, 10, 30, 40 Brush body 2, 20, 50 Shaft body 1a, 10a, 30a, 40a Mounting portion 2a, 20a, 50a Fixing portion 66 Washing brush for car wash machine 67 Car wash machine 68 Drive source 69 Nozzle 90 Dryer

Claims (5)

  In a car brush washing brush for car washing or vehicle washing, the car washing machine washing brush has a shaft body and a brush body, and fixes the brush body at a plurality of locations in the longitudinal direction of the shaft body. A washing brush for a car wash machine, wherein a fixing portion is formed, attachment portions are formed at a plurality of locations of the brush body, and the attachment portion is attached to the fixing portion.   In a car brush washing brush for car washing or vehicle washing, the car washing machine washing brush has a shaft body and a brush body, and fixes the brush body at a plurality of locations in the longitudinal direction of the shaft body. A fixing portion is formed, and mounting portions are formed at a plurality of locations of the brush body, and the mounting portion before mounting to the fixing portion is more than the distance between adjacent fixing portions of the shaft body. A washing brush for a car wash machine, characterized in that the distance between adjacent mounting portions of the brush body is longer.   In a car brush washing brush for car washing or vehicle washing, the car washing machine cleaning brush has a shaft body and a brush body, the lower end of the brush body is curved, and the vicinity of the lower end A washing brush for a car wash machine, characterized in that an attachment portion for fixing a shaft body is provided.   In a car brush washing brush for car washing or vehicle washing, the car washing machine washing brush has a shaft body and a brush body, and mounting portions provided at a plurality of locations in the longitudinal direction of the brush body are A washing brush for a car wash machine, wherein the brush body is fixed to the shaft body so as to have an inclination angle with respect to the longitudinal direction of the shaft body.   A driving source, a cleaning agent sprayed on the surface to be cleaned, a nozzle for ejecting water, and a drying means for drying the surface to be cleaned after cleaning are provided. A car wash machine on which the washing brush for car wash described is mounted.

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