Abstract: An overhead washer for use in automatic car wash installations utilizes washing curtains slit at their lower edges to provide rectangular washing panels positioned transversely of the curtains that are shorter in length and greater in width than has heretofore been known.

Abstract: An overhead washer for use in automatic car wash installations utilizes washing curtains slit at their lower edges to provide rectangular washing panels positioned transversely of the curtains that are shorter in length and greater in width than has heretofore been known.

Abstract: Car wash side brushing apparatus includes a rotatable vertical shaft to the top and bottom of which is mounted a horizontal arm supporting a rotatable washer adjacent its end. The end of each horizontal arm is rotatable about its longitudinal axis with respect to the attached end such that the longitudinal axis of each washer is tilted to place one of the upper and lower ends thereof more closely to the vertical side surface of a vehicle than the other end. In addition, the upper end of the vertical shaft is rotatable axially with respect to the lower end thereof such that one of the horizontal arms leads the other by a selected angle measured in a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A rotatable brushing apparatus for use in an automatic car wash is pivoted from a central support member which is substantially at the centerplane of the apparatus and above the path of a vehicle passing therebelow, the brush being rotated such that its motion at the surface of the vehicle is in the same direction as the motion of the vehicle.

Abstract: A rotary, overhead car wash mitter assembly for use in a car wash station. The assembly comprises a pair of mitter units, each unit comprising a mitter curtain assembly. Mounting structure mounting the mitter units on a support structure above the wash station, opposite each other and each overlying one side portion of the wash station. A motor connected to the mitter units rotate them at a substantially continuous speed in opposite directions of rotation.