Abstract: A nozzle arrangement for a vehicle drying installation of the type wherein blown air is utilized to dry a vehicle surface. A triangular grouping of plural openings is provided such that each opening includes a rigid flange member dependently associated therewith. The flange members by virtue of the triangular grouping of openings establishes a general V-shaped blown air curtain profile which impinges upon a surface of the vehicle such that relative movement between the vehicle and the V-shaped air curtain profile along a travel path responsively effects blown movement of water upon the vehicle surface both rearwardly and laterally relative to the travel path to effectively dry the vehicle surface.

Abstract: A car to be washed is moved longitudinally along a path through a washing station, a prerinsing station, a rinsing station and a drying station. At the washing station the car is scrubbed with hot, soapy water. In the prerinsing station the car is sprayed with water mixed with a surface-tension-increasing agent. In the rinsing station the car passes under a curtain down which flows a film of pure water. The curtain is formed of a multiplicity of parallel vertical filaments that conduct this rinse water with the surface-tension-increasing agent as a substantially continuous film over the vehicle.