Abstract: A drier for a car wash comprising overhead air manifolds and fans, a multiplicity of depending sleeves or cloth ducts extending from the manifolds, the cloth ducts being of various lengths to respectively blow and strip water from the hood and roof of the automobile, the cloth ducts having restrictions in the air discharging end portions to accelerate the air to maintain the ducts in stationary condition and to maintain the ducts as stiff and rigid, there being side cloth air ducts also with tapered interior contours defining restrictions for accelerating the flow of air. The ducts also having oblong-shaped discharge openings at their end portions to shape the pattern of air flowing therefrom to spread the air across the relevant areas of the automobile body.

Abstract: A car washer for a stationary car, including a pair of tracks on the floor, between which the car remains, an upright arch frame to pass over the car and having wheels on the track; a plurality of scrubber curtains of cloth, felt-like material cut into strips and suspended from the frame to engage and scrub the automobile as the frame passes along the automobile, means oscillating the strips in side to side direction, spray nozzles directing cleaning solution onto the strips; the mobile frame moving along the car, first in one direction, then in the reverse direction; upright rotary scrubbers on arms which swing toward and away from the automobile body, the arms being mounted on the upright frame, the rotary scrubbers also being made of strips of cloth, felt-like material, nozzles directing cleaning solution onto such strips, the rotary scrubbers being reversible, and the control means for the rotary scrubbers requiring reversing of the rotary scrubbers when the mobile arch frame reverses its direction.