JP2008279785A - Car washing brush of car washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a car washing brush capable of preventing the brush from being frozen without requiring extra work such as pulling-down of a heat insulating shutter after washing a car by an inexpensive configuration. <P>SOLUTION: This car washing brush used by the car washing machine is constituted by using a cloth-made sheet-like material as a brush material 24, folding it down in a fan shape, and sticking a linear moisture absorbing and heat generating material 31 to a surface of the sheet-like material, for example, its crest part 24a or trough part 24b. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a car wash brush in a car wash machine.

Conventionally, as a car wash brush in a car wash machine, for example, a brush mounted in a cylindrical shape around a rotating support shaft body is used, and this brush is considered for assembly and replacement. Thus, the support shaft body is divided into a plurality of parts in the axial direction. And this divided | segmented brush is a plurality of brushes hold | maintained at the holding member formed in the outer periphery of this ring member at predetermined intervals in the ring member provided with the hole part which can be externally fitted to a support shaft body A material made of cloth that is folded in a fan shape with a predetermined width is used in the holding grooves formed at a plurality of locations on the outer periphery of the ring member (for example, see Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 08-56750

However, as the material of the brush material, a sheet-like member made of cloth is used, that is, a material knitted with vertical fibers and horizontal fibers is used, and water repellency and water absorption are taken into consideration.
By the way, since this car wash brush uses the same fabric throughout the four seasons, the water remaining in the brush material after the car wash cannot be frozen and washed in a cold region where the temperature is -5 degrees or less in winter. It becomes a state.

  For this reason, in a cold region where the temperature is -5 degrees or less, a frozen brush is thawed when the car is not being washed, a heat retaining lamp is provided in the car wash machine, or a heat insulation shutter is provided before and after the car wash machine body. Although measures are taken to prevent the brush material from freezing by attaching, etc., the work such as lowering the heat insulation shutter after the car wash is very troublesome, and naturally the thawing work is also very troublesome In addition, in the case of providing a heat retaining lamp and a heat retaining shutter, there is a problem that the manufacturing cost of the car wash machine itself is increased.

  Accordingly, the present invention provides a car wash brush in a car wash machine that can prevent the brush material from freezing with an inexpensive configuration without requiring extra work such as lowering the heat retaining shutter after the car wash. Objective.

In order to solve the above problem, a car wash brush in a car wash machine according to claim 1 of the present invention is a car wash brush provided in a car wash machine,
As the brush material, a sheet-like member made of natural fiber or synthetic fiber is used, and a heating material is arranged on the sheet-like member.

  The car wash brush according to claim 2 is the car wash brush according to claim 1, wherein the heat generating material is sewn or pasted on the sheet-like member or held in a sandwich form. Is.

A car wash brush according to claim 3 is the car wash brush according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the sheet-like member is folded in a fan shape.
The car wash brush according to claim 4 is the car wash brush according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the heat generating material is arranged linearly at predetermined intervals.

  Further, the car wash brush according to claim 5 is the car wash brush according to claim 3, wherein the heat generating material is linearly arranged along at least the mountain or valley of the sheet-like member. Is.

  Further, the car wash brush according to claim 6 is the car wash brush according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the heat generating material absorbs sunlight or infrared rays and generates heat as heat such as far infrared rays. The material to be used is used.

  Further, the car wash brush according to claim 7 is the car wash brush according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the heat generating material uses a moisture absorbing heat generating material that absorbs moisture and generates heat. is there.

  According to the configuration of each of the above car wash brushes, the car wash brush material is arranged with, for example, a heat absorbing material that absorbs sunlight and then generates heat or a moisture absorbing heat generating material that generates heat by absorbing moisture. Since the heat is naturally generated even after the end of, the brush material itself is prevented from freezing even when the outside air temperature drops to zero. That is, it is not necessary to cover the front and rear of the car wash machine with a heat insulation shutter or the like during the suspension of the car wash operation as in the prior art, and it is not necessary to operate the heat insulation lamp etc. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the manufacturing cost of the car wash machine itself without requiring work such as heat retention.

[Embodiment]
Hereinafter, a car wash brush according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
First, a schematic configuration of the car wash machine will be briefly described with reference to FIG.

  In this car wash machine, a top brush 2 for cleaning the upper surface of the vehicle C is provided on the upper part of a frame body (also a car wash machine main body) 1 whose front view is a gate shape. The side brush 3 for cleaning the side surface of the vehicle C is provided, and further, a rocker brush 4 for cleaning tires and the like is provided below both side portions. Hereinafter, each of the brushes 2 to 4 will be described as a car wash brush 11.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the car wash brush 11 includes a rotating support shaft 12 and a cylindrical brush 13 attached to the rotating support shaft body 12. In the axial direction of the support shaft body 12, the support shaft body 12 is divided and attached. Hereinafter, the divided divided brush 13 'will be described.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the divided brush 13 ′ includes a ring member 21 provided with a hole portion 22 that can be fitted around the support shaft body 12, and an outer periphery of the ring member 21 at predetermined intervals (a predetermined angle). And the brush material 24 respectively held in a plurality of holding grooves 23 formed in (2). In FIG. 3, only one brush member 24 is shown, but of course, a plurality of brush members 24 are arranged over the entire outer periphery.

  As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the brush material 24 is formed by alternately folding a rectangular cloth (knitted with natural fibers) with a predetermined width B (in a zigzag shape). It is folded in the same plane with the middle as the center to make a fan shape (also called a fan shape).

The brush member 24 is attached to the ring member 21 as follows.
That is, the holding groove 23 includes a circular hole portion 23a and a groove portion 23b connected to the hole portion 23a and having a width narrower than the inner diameter of the hole portion 23a. At the time of attachment to 23, the folded portion of the brush material 24 is inserted into the groove portion 23b and the hole portion 23a, and in order to prevent the brush material 24 from coming off, a cylindrical shape is used as a core material in the hole portion 23a. The locking member 25 is inserted.

  Further, a linear hygroscopic heat generating material 31 composed of hygroscopic heat generating fibers is disposed along an appropriate position of the cloth brush material 24, for example, a folded mountain portion 24a or valley portion 24b. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 5, the moisture-absorbing heat generating material 31 is linear (with a certain amount of width in order to secure a heat generation amount) on a rectangular cloth sheet-like member S at predetermined intervals. The moisture-absorbing heat generating material 31 arranged in a linear shape is also arranged intermittently (may be continuous) in the longitudinal direction. For example, it is desirable that the portion of the moisture-absorbing heat generating material 31 is located along the peak portion 24a and / or the valley portion 24b and at the peak portion 24a and / or the valley portion 24b, respectively, when it is folded.

  Further, the arrangement surface of the hygroscopic heat generating material 31 is preferably located on the inner surface side so as not to come into contact with other brush materials and the vehicle body of the washing vehicle when folded, as shown by the broken line in FIG. In the peak portion 24a, it is arranged on the back side, and in the valley portion 24b, as shown by the solid line, it is arranged on the front side (of course, it may be arranged on either side). Further, the linear hygroscopic heat generating material 31 may be arranged in a single linear shape, that is, continuously, not intermittently.

  The fibers constituting the moisture-absorbing heat generating material 31 have, for example, a high hygroscopicity of about 7 times that of cotton and nylon (polyamide resin), and repeatedly absorb and release moisture according to the environment. Acrylate fibers having the property of generating are used. For example, the moisture absorption rate is about 40% (at 25 ° C. and relative humidity 65%), and the amount of heat generated by moisture absorption is about 1400 J / g (at 25 ° C. and relative humidity 80%).

  Then, as a method of attaching the moisture absorbing heat generating material 31 to the cloth brush material 24, the moisture absorbing heat generating material 31 is disposed on one surface (for example, the back surface) of one cloth, and then the moisture absorbing heat generating material 31. In addition, at least one larger cloth (may be the same cloth as the brush material or a cloth made of a different material) may be sewn or glued so as to cover and sandwich the moisture-absorbing heat generating material 31. It may be pasted with. Of course, a sandwich type in which the hygroscopic heat generating material 31 is arranged between two cloths may be used. In this case, it is not necessary to distinguish between the front and back of the arrangement surface of the hygroscopic heating material 31.

Therefore, when a normal car wash is performed by the car wash brush according to the above configuration and the car wash is completed, the car wash machine main body returns to a predetermined retracted position and is stopped.
By the way, of course, after the car washing operation is finished, the brush material 24 contains a considerable amount of moisture, and the moisture-absorbing heat generating material 31 disposed on the brush material 24 generates heat by sucking this moisture. Therefore, even when the temperature of the outside air is below zero, a situation in which the brush material 24 freezes due to the heat generation is prevented.

  That is, it is not necessary to cover the front and rear of the car wash machine with a heat insulation shutter or the like during the suspension of the car wash operation as in the prior art, and it is not necessary to operate the heat insulation lamp etc. Therefore, troublesome work can be eliminated, and the manufacturing cost of the car wash machine can be reduced.

  By the way, in the said embodiment, although the hygroscopic heat generating material was arrange | positioned so that it might come in the mountain part or valley part folded up in the shape of a fan, it may arrange | position in the intermediate plane part between a mountain part and a valley part. Alternatively, on the plane of the sheet-like member, the moisture-absorbing heat generating material may be arranged linearly at predetermined intervals in parallel with the folds, and the sheet-like member may be folded with a predetermined width (this In this case, the moisture-absorbing heat generating material is not always located in the peak or valley). Furthermore, although the linear hygroscopic heat generating material is intermittently arranged, as shown in FIG. 6, after passing the single linear hygroscopic heat generating material 31 from the front side to the back side of the sheet-like member S, from the back side You may arrange | position so that the hygroscopic heat generating material 31 may be sewn on the sheet-like member S itself so that it may pass to the front side.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the normal cloth (what is called what knitted natural fiber) was used as a material of a brush material, what knitted synthetic fibers, such as nylon, for example may be used.

  In the above-described embodiment, the moisture-absorbing heat generating material is used as the heat generating material. However, for example, a material that absorbs sunlight (so-called sunlight) or infrared rays and generates heat as heat such as far infrared rays may be used. Good. In this case, the moisture-absorbing heat generating material is disposed at a position where the sunlight hits well, for example, a mountain portion. Even when such a material is used, the same effect as that of the above-described embodiment can be obtained.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the sheet-like member is folded in a zigzag shape, and is formed into a fan shape by further folding the intermediate portion. For example, the sheet-like member is folded in a zigzag shape, You may use as it is, without folding an intermediate part. That is, one edge portion (inner peripheral portion) of the sheet-like member folded in a zigzag shape may be fixed to the ring member side and the other edge portion (outer peripheral portion) may be widened. That is, there may be no fan bone portion and a paper equivalent to the fan face portion made of paper may be arranged around the ring member.

  Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, the brush material is described as a sheet-like member folded, but is not limited to such a shape, for example, it is not folded, for example, the shaft center of the support shaft body The present invention can also be applied to a planar member arranged in an orthogonal plane, that is, an annular sheet member.

It is a side view showing a schematic structure of a car wash using a car wash brush according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a perspective view of the brush for car wash concerning an embodiment of the invention. It is a perspective view which shows the division | segmentation brush of the brush for car wash. It is a principal part perspective view of the division | segmentation brush. It is a top view which shows the sheet-like member which comprises the division | segmentation brush. It is a top view which shows the modification of the sheet-like member which comprises the same division brush.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Frame main body 11 Car wash brush 12 Support shaft body 13 Brush 13 'Split brush 21 Ring member 23 Holding groove 24 Brush material 24a Mountain part 24a Valley part 24a Middle plane part 31 Hygroscopic heat generating material

Claims (7)

A car wash brush provided in a car wash machine,
A brush for car wash in a car wash machine, wherein a sheet-like member formed of natural fiber or synthetic fiber is used as the brush material, and a heating material is disposed on the sheet-like member.   The car wash brush according to claim 1, wherein the heat generating material is sewn or pasted on the sheet-like member or held in a sandwich form.   The brush for car wash in the car wash machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the sheet-like member is folded in a fan shape.   The car wash brush according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the heat generating materials are arranged linearly at predetermined intervals.   The car wash brush according to claim 3, wherein the heat generating material is linearly arranged along at least a peak portion or a valley portion of the sheet-like member.   The car wash brush according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the heat generating material is a material that absorbs sunlight or infrared rays and generates heat as heat such as far infrared rays.   The car wash brush according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein a moisture absorbing heat generating material that absorbs moisture and generates heat is used as the heat generating material.

Images