Patent ID: 6766551
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
In a car washing apparatus having an overhead carriage, a support for the carriage, a drive mechanism for moving the carriage back and forth across the path of a vehicle as the vehicle moves through the apparatus, and at least one rectangular curtain suspended from the carriage into the path of the vehicle and transversely to the direction of movement of the vehicle along the path, the one curtain being about 86 inches long, the one curtain being movable by the carriage back and forth transversely across the vehicle to wash the vehicle, the one curtain comprising a sheet of thick, substantially napless, felt-like material unslit at its upper edge, the improvement comprising:the one curtain being slit at its lower edge to provide at least one flexible elongated panel at one of its transverse edges and a plurality of other panels intermediate the one elongated panel and the opposite edge of the curtain, the one panel at the one transverse edge being substantially longer than the other panels, the other panels being less than about 24 inches in length, the widths of the other panels being unequal, one of the other panels having a width substantially greater than the widths of the remaining other panels, the lower edges of the one panel at the one transverse edge and the other panels lying in a straight line when the one curtain is at rest.