JPS5893654A - Automatic car washing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatize car washing by a method wherein a number of car transfer rails are laid at car washing positions in parallel relationship with one another and a movable transfer carriage provided with car washing nozzles is caused to travel on the rails by means of a traverser. CONSTITUTION:A number of car transfer rails R1 are laid at the car washing positions, respectively, in parallel relationships with one another and traverser transfer rails R2 are laid on one side of the row of the rails R1 in the direction intersecting the rails R1 at right angles. Further, the car transfer carriage 1 provided with a water spray nozzle 3 and an air nozzle 6 are mounted on rails 11 provided on the traverser 7 and rails R3 for connecting the rails R1 and 11 are provided on the traverser 7 so as to incline freely. In addition, drums 9a, 9b and 9c for rolling up a power cable 10a, a water supply hose 10b and an air supply hose 10c, respectively, are provided on the traverser 7 so that power, water and air are supplied to te car transfer carriage 1, through the cable and the hoses.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an automatic car wash device that automatically washes the lower part of a car body during periodic inspections and the like.

Conventionally, when washing the lower part of a car, such as the legs and bottom of the car, high-pressure water is sprayed manually to wash the car one by one. Therefore, car washing becomes laborious and time consuming. For this reason, some automatic car washing devices have been developed, and at present no one has proposed a completely automatic one.

In view of this, the present invention is designed to automatically wash a plurality of cars arranged in parallel sequentially in one car wash machine, and will be described below based on an embodiment shown in the drawings.

In the figure, l is a car wash mobile trolley, and although not shown in the figure, this trolley is equipped with a traveling device and a nozzle turning device (1), and wheels (2) for traveling are provided at the bottom, and - or two or more of the wheels are provided. The trolley is driven by a built-in traveling device, and a nozzle 8 for spraying cleaning water at high pressure is provided on the upper part of the trolley. This nozzle S (at least one or more nozzles is installed at the tip of an arm 4 driven by a turning device built into the S truck L or at an appropriate position), and the lower part of the car body is evenly washed by the combination of the swing of the arm 4 and the running of the truck. In addition, when washing and drying the car, another arm 6 is provided in addition to the arm 4.
This may be equipped with an air nozzle 6, so that after washing the car, the spraying of washing water is stopped and instead air is sprayed from the air nozzle to drain and dry the car. When using both nozzles 3.6, even if the arm 4 is the same, even if the two arms 4゜6 are fully used, the turning fold fw
, IIc are driven simultaneously.

The above-mentioned car wash mobile trolley l is mounted on a traverser T, and wheels 8 for running are provided on the lower part or both sides of the traverser T so that it can run between cars arranged on the traverser T. A car wash mobile trolley in which any of the wheels 8 are mounted on a traverser and driven by an FC drive device to run, and which is also mounted on the traverser and moves from the traverser onto a car wash running rail at a car wash position. The k-th drum 9a, 9 supplies power, water, and air to the
Install equipment b and 9a respectively, and connect cable lea, water supply hose 101), air supply hose LO from the ram to the car wash swJ trolley.
The desired power supply, water supply (or hot water) and air supply are carried out through the Lal'.

Each drum is equipped with a winding spring to automatically wind the cable or hose, and the tension of the cable hose is overcome by the running force of the car wash trolley, automatically rewinding the cable hose. This is done in a specific manner.

Although not shown, electricity, water, and air may be supplied to the traverser using the same method or a different method from the method used to supply the trolley l.

A rail 11 is laid on the traverser γ so that the car wash moving trolley can freely move onto the car wash running rail.

This rail 11 is made to have the same width as the car wash running rail R1, so that the traverser stops at a predetermined position and the rail 11 and R11j are in a straight line at the time of fc.

Further, the car wash running rail is installed on the work floor surface, and the 9 rails are installed on the work floor surface so as to be perpendicular to the car wash running rail R1.
! Since the running rail R2 is different in horizontal level from the rail 11 on the traverser that runs on the running rail R2, the transfer of the car wash mobile trolley becomes a distance. For this purpose, a transfer rail R81r is provided on the end face of the traverser and on an extension of the rail 11 so as to be tiltable. One end of the P9Ti long eel R8 is tilted and bridged between the ends of the traverser via a shaft, but when the cart 1 is mounted on the traverser and moves together, the cart accidentally falls off the traverser. When the cart stops at a fixed position on the traverser, a part of the running force of this cart is used to move the transfer rail R8.
stand up, and with this, the role of - (f)
Hatasa L Meru. When a stopper installed on the opposite side of the transfer rail is pressed by the cart or the wheels of the cart, the pressing force applied to this stopper is transmitted to the transfer rail via the t-rod, which is used for transfer. It's time to tilt the rail.

In addition, by making the height of the traverser as low as possible, it becomes easy to transfer the cart, so in the illustrated embodiment, a protrusion is provided on the side of the single-wheel 81r traverser so that it can run accurately on L1 and rail R2. It is also possible to use a flanged wheel on one side and a flat rubber wheel on the other side.

A large number of car wash running rails R1 are laid in parallel at desired intervals so that two or more cars can be arranged in parallel and washed one after another. This is determined by the number of 7J washing single-travel rails to be installed and the working floor area of the luxury factory.In addition, drainage craters are provided along the car washing running angle rails or at arbitrary locations on the working floor surface.

According to the present invention, the car wash mobile trolley, which runs on parallel car pipe traversers and is mounted on the traverser, is moved to a fixed position and transferred to the car wash running rail, and power and water are supplied to the vehicle. A swivel knife.

The combination of the nozzle and the running of the trolley automatically washes the car, and after the car wash is finished, the cart is placed on the ketotraversa, and then moved to the next vehicle side hetraverser. The car wash pipe material can be washed sequentially.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

If, FIG. 1 is a plan view of the entire car wash apparatus, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the traverser, FIG. 8 is a front view of the car wash mobile cart, and FIG. 4 is a side view of the same. t, , , vc single' mobile trolley 2.8, , single wheel kl, 6, , nozzle 4.6-, arm 79. ,) Rubbers 9a, 9b, 9c, , Drum '10a, , Cable 10b, lOc, Hose 11, R1, R2, , Rail R8019 Transfer rail No. 9n Figure A

Claims (1)

[Claims] A plurality of cars are arranged in parallel L1 A large number of car wash running rails are laid in parallel in the longitudinal direction of the cars under the cars arranged at each car wash position, and one end of these rails is connected to the driver so that they are perpendicular to each other.・- A rail for running the car is provided, a traverser is provided on the rail for the traverser so that the traverser can run freely, and a movable car wash mobile trolley equipped with a nozzle for washing the car on the traverser is transferred to the rail for running the car wash. An automatic car wash device comprising drums on a traverser, each of which is equipped with a coiled cable or hose for supplying power, water, and air necessary for car washing to the trolley.