JPH0986357A - Car washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid a car wash in the condition that a car rides on a conveyer guide, and prevent damage to the car to be washed, by providing a riding-on detecting means of the car to be washed, and stopping the driving of a roller conveyer when the riding-on is detected, in a stationary type washing machine to wash a car while moving the car to be washed. SOLUTION: Front wheels are detected by a wheel sensor 42, so as to confirm whether a car to be washed rides on the position of a stopping device 25 or not. When the answer is YES, it is confirmed that a tape switch 41 to be a riding-on detecting means installed on a conveyer guide 24 and near the stopping device 25 is operating or not. When the tape switch 41 is operating, a warning signal is output to an alarm, so as to flicker an alarm lamp, and an alarm 'to do once again to ride on' is given to the driver of the car to be washed. On the other hand, when the operation of the tape switch 41 is not confirmed, the car wash is started. That is, roller conveyers 21a and 21b are driven by a driving motor 35, and the conveyance of the car to be washed is started.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a car wash machine for cleaning a vehicle to be cleaned while moving it by a conveyor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of a conventional continuous car wash machine will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown, on the floor surface 1,
A stationary car wash main body 2 formed in a gate shape and a pair of left and right roller conveyors (vehicle transfer devices) 3a, 3b that penetrate the car wash main body 2 from the front and reach the rear are installed. An operation panel 4 is provided on the front surface of the car washer body 2, and a sonic sensor 8 for detecting the presence or absence of the vehicle 5 to be washed and the vehicle height is provided at the upper center of the front surface.

Inside the car wash main body 2, as a cleaning means for the vehicle to be cleaned 5, a pair of left and right cleaning side / rocker brushes 11 for cleaning the lower portions of both side surfaces of the vehicle to be cleaned 5 and the side surfaces of the front and rear wheels 6, A cleaning top brush 12 for cleaning the upper surface of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned, a pair of left and right side brushes 13 for cleaning the front surface, rear surface, and both side surfaces of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned, and an arch (not shown) for spraying cleaning water or detergent. And a top brush 14 for wax that applies wax to the upper surface of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned as wax applying means for the vehicle 5 to be cleaned.
And a pair of left and right wax side and rocker brushes 15 for applying wax to both side surfaces of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned and the side surface of the wheel 6, and an arch (not shown) for injecting a wax base agent, a liquid wax or a fluorine coating agent. Further, as a drying means of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned, a vertically movable top nozzle 16 for drying the upper surface of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned, and an air curtain provided between the top nozzle 16 and the rocker brush 15 for wax are provided. A sub-top nozzle 17 that can be raised and lowered,
A pair of left and right side nozzles 18 and the like provided behind the top nozzle 16 for drying both side surfaces of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned are provided.

The roller conveyor 3a on the right side (abbreviated to the right) of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned supports and conveys the wheel 6 on the right side of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned. The roller conveyor 3a (abbreviated to the left) supports and conveys the wheel 6 on the left side of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned. The width W1 of the conveying surface of the roller conveyor 3a on the right side is formed to be narrow, the position of the right side surface of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned is substantially constant regardless of the vehicle type, and the width W2 of the conveying surface of the roller conveyor 3b on the left side is wide. It is formed to accommodate various vehicle widths.

Further, the roller conveyors 3a and 3b are divided into three parts, that is, front conveyors 21a and 21b, intermediate conveyors 22a and 22b, and rear conveyors 23a and 23b.
Conveyor guide 24 that guides the wheels 6 over the entire length on both frames 21a, 21b, 22a, 22b, 23a, 23b.
Is provided. A front slope 19 is provided on the starting end side of the front conveyors 21a and 21b for smoothly loading the vehicle to be cleaned 5, and the vehicle 5 to be cleaned is smoothly discharged on the terminal end side of the rear conveyors 23a and 23b. Rear slope for
20 are installed. Further, the front conveyor 21a on the right side is provided with the vehicle 5 to be washed at a predetermined position (front wheel).
A stop device 25 is provided, and a cylinder device 26 for vertically erecting the stop device 25 is provided beside the front conveyor 21a.

Further, a control device 30 is provided on the back surface of the operation panel 4 of the car wash main body 2, and by this control device 30, a predetermined position (position of the stopping device 25) on the front conveyors 21a, 21b is provided.
When the vehicle 5 to be cleaned is loaded into the vehicle, the stop device 25 and each of the brushes 11 to
15, the nozzles 16 to 18 and the roller conveyors 3a and 3b are driven to wash the vehicle 5 to be washed.

[0007]

However, in the conventional continuous car wash machine, as shown in FIG. 6, when the vehicle to be cleaned 5 rides on the front conveyors 21a, 21b, the front wheels 6a ride on the conveyor guide 24. When the car wash is started after being stopped at, the front conveyors 21a and 21b push the rear wheels 6b, so that the front wheels 6a derail from the conveyor guide 24, collide with the car wash machine body 2, and the vehicle to be cleaned 5 is washed. There was a risk of damage.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a car washing machine capable of preventing car washing when the front wheels of the vehicle to be washed are riding on the conveyor guide of the roller conveyor. is there.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a car washing machine according to claim 1 of the present invention is provided with a washing means for washing a vehicle to be washed in a stationary car washing machine body. A car washer equipped with a roller conveyor for carrying the vehicle to be washed into the car wash machine main body from the front and for discharging the car to be washed rearward from the car wash machine main body, wherein the vehicle to be cleaned is ridden on a conveyor guide of the roller conveyor. The present invention is characterized in that a detecting means for detecting is provided, and a control means for stopping the driving of the roller conveyor when the riding on the vehicle to be washed is detected by the detecting means.

Here, as the detecting means, a pressure switch, a tape switch or the like which operates depending on the weight of the vehicle to be washed is used. With the above configuration, when the detection means detects that the vehicle to be cleaned has run on the conveyor guide of the roller conveyor, the control means stops the driving of the roller conveyor. Therefore, wheel removal from the conveyor guide of the wheel of the vehicle to be cleaned is avoided.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the car washing machine according to the first aspect, in which the roller conveyor guides and supports and conveys the wheel on one side of the vehicle to be cleaned in the conveying direction. And a roller conveyor of which the width of the conveying surface is wider than that of the one roller conveyor, and the other roller conveyor that supports and conveys the wheel on the other side in the conveying direction of the vehicle to be cleaned is formed, and the detection means of the one roller conveyor is formed. It is characterized in that it is arranged in the vicinity of a predetermined boarding stop position of the vehicle to be cleaned.

With the above arrangement, the detection means is arranged in the vicinity of the predetermined stop position of the vehicle to be cleaned on the one roller conveyor that guides the wheel on the one side in the direction of conveyance of the vehicle to be cleaned, so that the vehicle to be most cleaned is disposed. The detection means is arranged at a position where there is a high possibility of riding on the vehicle.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The same components as those of the conventional example shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a front roller conveyor of a continuous car washing machine showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sectional view of essential parts. The front conveyors 21a and 21b are composed of a pair of left and right conveyor frames 31 and a plurality of freely rotatable rollers 32 supported by both conveyor frames 24.
A sprocket 33 is provided at one end of the sprocket 33, and a drive chain 34 for rotating the roller 32 is wound around the sprocket 33. This chain 34 is conveyor 21
The drive sprocket is wound around a drive sprocket and an idle sprocket (both not shown) provided at the front and rear ends of a and 21b, and the drive sprocket is a drive motor 35 installed outside the conveyor 21b.
And is driven by. The driving force of the driving motor 35 is transmitted to the driving sprocket of the conveyor 21a via the connecting shaft 36. The conveyor guides 24 are mounted on the conveyor frames 31, respectively.

Conveyor guide for one front conveyor 21a
A tape switch 41 is mounted on the front conveyor 21a over the length of the front conveyor 21a on the 24 and near the stopping device 25, and a wheel detection sensor 42 including a photoelectric switch for detecting the presence or absence of the wheel 6 at the position of the stopping device 25 is provided. In addition, an alarm device 44 having an alarm lamp 43 for "restarting boarding" is provided in front of the car wash machine body 2.

The tape switch 41, the wheel detection sensor 42, and the alarm device 44 are connected to the control device 30. The control device 30 performs the following confirmation based on the detection signals of the tape switch 41 and the wheel detection sensor 42 before starting the car wash.

That is, as shown in the flow chart of FIG. 3, when the car wash course is set by the operation panel 4 (step -1), the vehicle 5 to be washed is stopped by the wheel detection sensor 42 detecting the front wheels 6a. Check whether you are in the position (step-2). When it is confirmed by the operation of the wheel detection sensor 42 that the vehicle 5 to be cleaned has entered the front conveyor 21a, it is confirmed whether the tape switch 41 is operating (step-3). When the operation of the tape switch 41 is confirmed, an alarm signal is output to the alarm device 44 to cause the alarm lamp 43 to flicker, and the driver of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned is warned of "retrying boarding" (step-
4) Returning to step-3, if the operation of the tape switch 31 is not confirmed, the alarm signal to the alarm device 44 is turned off and the alarm lamp 43 is turned off (step-5) to start car washing. That is, the drive motor 35 is driven to drive the front conveyor.
21a and 21b are driven to start transportation of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned.

When the front wheel 6a rides on the conveyor guide 24 and the tape switch 41 is actuated to detect the riding as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. By not doing so, that is, the transportation of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned is not started, it is possible to avoid the situation where the wheels 6 of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned derail from the conveyor guide 24, and the vehicle 5 to be cleaned 5 is washed.
It is possible to avoid the situation of being damaged by colliding with etc.

In the present embodiment, the tape switch 41 is used as the detection means for detecting the riding of the vehicle 5 to be cleaned, but a pressure switch or the like may be used instead of the tape switch 41. . Further, in the present embodiment, the tape switch 41 is the stopping device 25 for the right front conveyor 21a that has the highest possibility of riding the vehicle 5 to be cleaned.
Although it is mounted only in the vicinity, the tape switch 41 can be mounted over the entire length of the front conveyors 21a and 21b. However, it is more cost effective to dispose the cleaning target vehicle 5 only at a position where the vehicle 5 to be cleaned is most likely to run.

[0020]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, when the detection means detects that the vehicle to be cleaned has run on the conveyor guide of the roller conveyor, the control means stops driving the roller conveyor. By being
It is possible to avoid wheel removal of the wheels of the vehicle to be washed from the conveyor guide, and to avoid collision of the vehicle to be washed with the car washing machine body or the like.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, one roller conveyor for guiding the wheel on the one side in the transport direction of the vehicle to be cleaned is provided near the predetermined stop position of the vehicle to be cleaned,
By arranging the detecting means, the detecting means can be arranged at the position where the vehicle to be washed is most likely to run, and the cost is reduced compared to the case where the detecting means is arranged over the entire length of the roller conveyor. can do.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a front conveyor of a car washer showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a main part of a front conveyor of the car wash machine.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for confirming that the vehicle to be washed is running on the conveyor by the control device of the car washing machine.

FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view of a conventional car washing machine.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of a roller conveyor of a conventional car wash machine.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a problem of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Floor surface 2 Car wash main body 3a, 3b Roller conveyor 5 Vehicle to be washed 6 Wheels 6a Front wheels 21a, 21b Front conveyor 24 Conveyor guide 25 Stop device 26 Cylinder device 30 Controller (control means) 31 Conveyor frame 32 Roller 35 Drive motor 41 Tape switch (detection means) 42 Wheel detection sensor 43 Alarm lamp 44 Alarm device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A cleaning means for cleaning a vehicle to be cleaned is provided in a main body of a stationary car wash machine, and a roller conveyor is provided for carrying the vehicle to be cleaned into the car wash machine body from the front and unloading the car wash machine body to the rear. A car washing machine provided, wherein detection means for detecting the running of the vehicle to be washed is provided on the conveyor guide of the roller conveyor, and when the detection means detects the running of the vehicle to be washed, the driving of the roller conveyor is stopped. A car washing machine characterized by being provided with control means for controlling. 2. The car washer according to claim 1, wherein the roller conveyor guides and supports and conveys a wheel on one side of a vehicle to be cleaned in a conveying direction, and a conveying surface from the one roller conveyor. Is formed from the other roller conveyor that supports and conveys the wheel on the other side of the vehicle to be washed in the conveying direction, and the detection means is arranged near the predetermined stop position of the vehicle to be washed on the one roller conveyor. It is characterized by