Car care self-service device

• US 5,497,914 A
• Filed: 03/28/1994
• Issued: 03/12/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panos Maltsis
• Original Assignee: Panos Maltsis
• Inventors: Maltsis, Panos
• Primary Examiner(s): Huson, Gregory L.
• Application Number:
  US08/196,166
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: 222/2, 222/132, 222/135, 222/136, 222/144.5, 222/630, 222/639, 222/649
• US Class Current: 222/135
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/0258 Multiple lance high pressure cleaning station
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 2203/0276 Hose reels specific for high pressure cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 3/026 Cleaning by making use of hand-held spray guns; Fluid preparations therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 3/044 Hand-held cleaning arrangements with liquid or gas distributing means B60S3/045 takes precedence

Abstract

A car care self-service device capable of carrying out a plurality of different car care operations comprising a housing defining an internal space, the housing having a front wall having an aperture for displaying a plurality of spray devices; a plurality of supply tanks for storing different car care agents, each of the plurality of supply tanks being in fluid communication with a respective one of each of the plurality of spray devices; a conduit for communicating each tank with a respective spray device, the conduit includes a hose mounted on a reel within the housing for allowing the hose to be unwound from the reel by pulling on the spray device thereby allowing the spray device to be moved to a work site; and a control within the housing internal space for selectively controlling the feed of car care agents from the supply tanks to the spray devices.

Claims

1. A car care self-service device capable of carrying out a plurality of different car care operations comprising a housing defining an internal space, said housing having a front wall having an aperture displaying a plurality of spray devices;

a plurality of supply tanks for storing different car care agents, each of said plurality of supply tanks being in fluid communication with a respective one of each of said plurality of spray devices;

conduit means for communicating each tank with a respective spray device, said conduit means includes hose means mounted on reel means within said housing for allowing said hose means to be unwound from said reel by pulling on said spray device thereby allowing said spray device to be moved to a work site;

a feeding device associated with each conduit and a common motor within said housing internal space for selectively controlling the feed of car care agents from said supply tanks to said spray devices by said feeding device, said common motor having a coupling for selectively connecting said motor to said feeding device.