JPS6175046A - Gate type car washing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To stop generation of parts which are not washed by enabling inclination of a pair of side brushes in the longitudinal direction. CONSTITUTION:A guide rail 8 for guiding movement of side brushes 2 is slidably supported by a frame 1, and inclined to forward and backward directions by an inclination device 19. The inclination device 19 consists of a piston 17 and a supporting arm 18 transmitting motion of the piston 17 to the guide rail 8. The brushes 8 are inclined to positions 2A, 2B of a one point chain line by inclining the guide rail to the forward and back.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a gate-type car wash device, and more particularly to a gate-type car wash device that does not leave any residue when washing the front and rear surfaces of a vehicle body.

[Prior Art 1] A gate-type car washing device that runs on rails is known as a device that self-helps wash the surface of an automobile body.

In this type of conventional equipment, the sides and front and rear surfaces of the car body are cleaned! The pair of side brushes installed in the temple are only supported by the frame so that they are suspended at the top, and the brushes themselves can be tilted back and forth as needed. It was not.

For this reason, when cleaning the side brush by rotating it in contact with the front or rear surface of the vehicle, the side brush can be placed in the state shown in (c) in Figure 4, or by slightly moving the side brush itself (b). As shown, the best I could do was force it to lean and make contact with the car body.

Therefore, cleaning around the front bumper and the lower surface of the car bumper using the side brush of this conventional device is done in one step.
This is mechanically impossible and results in unwashed parts 1), and in the end, these unwashed parts have to be manually cleaned again, which is complicated.

[Object of the Invention] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a gate-type car wash system that can reliably prevent the formation of unwashed parts as seen in conventional devices.

[Disclosure of the Invention] According to the present invention, a tilting device is provided on a pair of side brushes that are in rotational contact with both side surfaces and front and rear surfaces of the vehicle body, so that the tilting toward the rear of TTJ is forcibly performed.

[Operations and Effects of the Invention] Therefore, by tilting the night brush itself back and forth, it is possible to automatically clean the upper and lower surfaces of the front bumper and bumper of the vehicle body without leaving any residue.

[Preferred Embodiment] The inclination device according to the present invention is such that the guide rail itself, which integrally supports the side brush, is directly connected and fixed to the support arm that responds to the expansion and contraction of the piston. It is preferable that the side brush itself be forcibly tilted back and forth, and that the side brush itself be tilted in accordance with the tilt of the guide rail.

[Example] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a gate-type car washing apparatus according to the present invention, in which a liquid feed pipe having a side brush 2, a top brush 3, a rocker brush 4, and a nozzle 5 is provided in a frame 1 that moves forward and backward on a rail 22. Various known devices such as a drying device 6 and a drying device 7 are provided, and are operated by various switches on an operation panel 23.

Figures 2 and 3 show a side brush 2 implementing the present invention.
A pair of left and right side brushes 2 are supported so as to be particularly movable along guide rails 8 horizontally suspended on the frame 1.

That is, the guide rail 8 is sandwiched between the roller 9 and the guide piece 10 from above and below, and the seed brush 2 is suspended from the support member 11 which is integrally supported through the bearing 12. The support shaft 13, which is rotatably supported and has a bell seat B1, responds to the rotation of the motor 14. Further, each of the supporting members 11 that support the side brush 2 on the guide rail 8 can be freely moved laterally on the guide rail 8 via wires W driven by brush moving motors 15. Therefore, the side brushes 2 can also move laterally toward and away from each other.

The guide rail 8 itself is supported by a bearing 16 provided within the frame 1.
A tilting device 19 is installed on the guide rail 8 to support the guide rail 8 by tilting it back and forth. The tilting device 19 is made up of a piston 17 that expands and contracts from a cylinder 27 using appropriate means such as hydraulic pressure, and a support arm 18 that transmits the expansion and contraction state of the piston 17 to the guide rail 8.
The attachment to the support arm 18 (1!!) is carried out freely, and the attachment to the guide rail 8 at the end of the support arm 18 (1!!) is carried out by being fixedly fixed.

In the figure, 20 indicates a running wheel of the frame 1, 21 indicates a motor that drives this running wheel 20, and M indicates a microswitch. To wash a car, the car is stopped at a predetermined position and a start switch on the operation panel 23 is turned on, and each part is driven as described below by the operation of a control device (not shown). First, cleaning water is injected from the nozzle 5, the motor 14 is driven, and the side brush 2 rotates while the frame 1 itself also travels and moves. When the side brush 2 comes into contact with the body C of the car that is stopped, the side brush 2 is pushed and the micro switch M provided in the tilting frame 1 is pushed by the support member 11 and turned on, and the motor 21 is turned on when the frame is stopped. The movement of body 1 stops.

Then, the piston 17 retracts and rotates so that the guide rail 8 is roughly pushed down via the support arm 18.

This causes the side brush 2 to tilt to the position shown as 28 in FIG. Then, the motor 15 is driven and the side brush 2 is rotated until it reaches a predetermined position.

Therefore, the side brush 2 can wash the vehicle while contacting the upper front surface of the vehicle body C in the state shown in FIG.

Next, the motor 21 is reversed and the frame 1 runs backwards,
The piston 1γ is extended, the guide rail 8 is rotated to tilt forward via the support arm 18, and the side brush 2 is tilted to the state shown as 2B in FIG. As shown in (b), the side brushes 2 are brought into close contact with each other by moving laterally while making rotational contact. Therefore, the car can be washed without leaving the area around the lower surface of the front bumper F unwashed.

After the nide brushes 2 approach each other to a state not shown in FIG. 3, the piston 17 is retracted to an intermediate length, and the support arm 1
By eliminating the inclination of the guide rail 8 via the guide rail 8, the side brush 2 is brought into the state shown by the solid line in FIG. Open it to the specified position while moving it horizontally. After doing this, the frame body 1 is moved forward and the side brushes 2 wash both left and right sides of the vehicle body C.

In addition, after washing the sides with the side brush 2,
The rear surface of the vehicle body C is washed in the same manner as the front surface of the vehicle body C, so that the lower surface of the rear bumper R can be reliably washed without leaving anything unwashed.

[Summary] As described above, according to the present invention, when the side brush is tilted by the tilting device and the front surface of the vehicle body is washed, the front bumper, the lower surface of the bumper, etc. are self-helpfully washed without being left unwashed. As a result, car washing work can be carried out efficiently without the need for manpower.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 3 show one embodiment of the device used to carry out the present invention, FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an outline of the device, and FIG. 2 is the arrangement of side brushes, etc. in the frame. FIG. 3 is a schematic side view showing the situation, and FIG. 3 is a front view of the same, and FIGS. 1...Frame body 2...Side brush 3...Top brush 4...Rocker brush 6...Liquid feed pipe
7... Drying device 8... Guide rail 9...
・Roller 10... Guide piece 11... Support member 12... Bearing 13... Support shaft 14...
・Motor 15...Brush moving motor 16...Bearing 17...Piston 18...Support arm 19...
・Tilt device B...Belt W...Wai V 10th Shinguchi C)

Claims (1)

[Claims] A gate-type car washing device characterized in that a tilting device is provided on the brush that washes the side and front surfaces of a car body.