Patent ID: 8602041

Claim:
A spray-type washer for vehicles comprising: a rail system extending longitudinally over a wash area; a carriage mounted on the rail system for travel there along; an elongate spray arm dependingly mounted from the carriage so as to extend substantially vertically into the wash area for controlled travel relative to a vehicle in the area; said arm comprising a fluid conduit and a plurality of vertically spaced apart nozzles arranged along a vertical axis for directing fluids laterally of the arm toward a vehicle in the wash area; a lighting system comprising a plurality of light sources carried by the arm and distributed along substantially the entire vertical length of the arm so as to be capable of producing illumination along substantially the entire vertical length of the arm, wherein the light sources are arranged along a first line and the spaced apart nozzles are arranged along a second line, and wherein the first and second lines do not intersect; and a control system for placing the arm in a target position in the wash area and activating the lighting system to illuminate the arm in response to entry of a vehicle into the wash area.