Dry wiping system for vehicles

摘要

An endless conveyor type chamois-like curtain drier for vehicles wherein a plurality of spaced drying curtains hang down into the frontal path of a vehicle and are pulled over the vehicle surfaces by the lower run of the conveyor to wipe the moisture therefrom. The curtains are returned in overlapping relationship by the upper run to the point of beginning after removing moisture therefrom by wringer roll or vacuum. An accelerator means in the form of a rotatable paddle wheel intercepts each of the curtains adjacent the head end of the conveyor to speed up the linear movement of the curtains and lift the individual curtains free of their laminated relationship and over and around the conveyor end returning the curtains to the beginning of the lower run in a freely hangable condition. The drier conveyor preferably includes a lateral run connecting the upper and lower runs of the conveyor which lateral run slopes obliquely inwardly and downwardly at an acute angle relative to the vertical and in the direction of movement of the lower run and away from the head end of the conveyor providing a vertical space in which the curtains may obtain their full free-hanging vertical position before entering the lower run. A side by side arrangement of two similar units with conveyors moving the lower runs in opposite directions provides a novel cross vehicle drying operation.