PLEATED CAR WASH ELEMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND METHOD OF ATTACHMENT

• US 20090020138A1
• Filed: 10/01/2008
• Published: 01/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Belanger, Inc. (Dover Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Belanger, Inc. (Dover Corporation)
• Inventors: Weyandt, Thomas E.
• Application Number:
  US12/243,288
• Publication Number:
  US 20090020138A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 134/6
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/003 made up of a series of annular brush rings; Annular brush rings therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/006 formed by winding a strip tuft in a helix about the body
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/3046 Brushes for cleaning cars or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 3/06 with rotary bodies contacting the vehicle hand-held B60S3/048

Abstract

A car wash brush is constructed using permanently pleated synthetic water-carrying material. In one form, radially-pleated fabric discs are stacked on a shaft. In another form, a single length of material is laterally pleated and punched to form a continuous pattern of holes along one edge, and assembled onto a spring or flexible cable which can be wrapped around a rotatable drive shaft. The brush so constructed is quiet in operation contact-washing a vehicle.

Claims

1. A method of washing a vehicle comprising the steps of:

constructing a car wash brush from multiple revolutions of synthetic, semi-porous, water-carrying material having permanently set-in radial pleats extending fully to the radially outer edges thereof; and

operating the brush so constructed in a rotary fashion in a water-wetted environment to wash a vehicle therewith.