Patent Application
20210046907
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The disclosure relates to drying assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new drying assembly for hands free dying of a vehicle.
The prior art relates to drying assemblies.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pair of sidewalls and a roof that define a bay, which is open ended. Each of a set of blowers that is coupled to a respective sidewall is positioned so that the set of blowers is configured to blow air to dry a vehicle that passes through the bay.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
The set of blowers 18 may comprise two blowers 18, or other number of blowers 18, such as, but not limited to, three, four, five, or six blowers 18. The blowers 18 may be centrifugal type, or other type, such as, but not limited to, axial-flow type, cross-flow type, and the like.
Each blower 18 comprises a housing 20 that defines an interior space 22. The housing 20 has a first end 24 that is open. An aperture 26 that is positioned in the housing 20 is configured to vent the interior space 22. The aperture 26 may be positioned in a top 28 of the housing 20, as shown in
A fan motor 30 is coupled to the housing 20 and is positioned in the interior space 22. The fan motor 30 is operationally coupled to an electrical circuit of a structure that comprises the bay 16, such as the self-service car wash facility. A plurality of vanes 32 is positioned in the housing 20 and is operationally coupled to the fan motor 30 so that the fan motor 30 is positioned to rotate the plurality of vanes 32 to draw the air through the aperture 26 and to expel the air through the first end 24 of the housing 20 to dry the vehicle that passes through the bay 16.
Each of a set of tracks 34 is coupled to a respective sidewall 12 so that the track 34 extends from proximate to the roof 14 to proximate to a floor 36 of the bay 16, as shown in
The assembly 10 also comprises a set of lift motors 38, as shown in
Each of a set of chutes 40 is coupled to and extends from the first end 24 of a respective housing 20, as shown in
A control station 42 is positioned proximate to an entry 44 of the bay 16. The control station 42 is operationally coupled to the set of blowers 18, the set of lift motors 38, and the electrical circuit of the structure that comprises the bay 16. The control station 42 is pay type so that the control station 42 is configured to accept payment from a customer, positioning the control station 42 to selectively actuate the fan motors 30 and the lift motors 38 to dry the vehicle that passes through the bay 16. The control station 42 is configured to accept at least one of a credit card, a debit card, a loyalty card, cash, and coinage.
It is anticipated that an existing bay of a self-service car wash can be converted to comprise the assembly 10 by addition of the set of tracks 34, the set of lift motors 38, the set of blowers 18, and the control station 42.
In use, the user would approach the entry 44 of the bay 16 in the vehicle after utilizing the self-service car wash and stop proximate to the control station 42. After the user enters payment, the control station 42 would actuate the fan motors 30 and the lift motors 38. The user then would drive slowly through the bay 16 where the set of blowers 18 would dry the vehicle.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the elements is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
