The present invention, a carwash dryer apparatus and method, is detailed. The apparatus uses a plurality of drying scoop assemblies to remove water from a wet vehicle through contact. The drying scoops are made from 10-lb foam or felt. The apparatus is then dried by spinning until it has released the absorbed water. The scoop shape facilitates both quick drying of vehicles and the rapid elimination of moisture from the scoops, themselves. The method allows for the sensing of the water retained in the plurality of drying scoop assemblies and adjusts the voltage in order to eliminate the water.

A snow and ice removal tool including a brush assembly, a handle assembly, and a vehicle assembly. These assemblies in conjunction with one another provide a simple solution to snow and ice buildup on vehicles. The snow and ice removal tool is a multi-tool comprising an elongated handle including a rubber mallet on one end. On the opposite end of the elongated handle is a scraper blade as well as a brush integrally formed adjacent to the scraper blade. The scraper blade and brush can be used to remove snow and ice from the surface of the vehicle. The rubber mallet can be used to knock snow build up from the under carriage of vehicles.

A car wash vehicle conveyor system including a lower track, an upper track, and an intermediate track positioned between the lower and upper tracks. The upper track includes laterally spaced and parallel raised portions. An endless chain extends around the lower track and the intermediate track. The endless chain is connected around at least one drive sprocket so that rotation of the at least one drive sprocket results in lateral movement of the endless chain around the lower and intermediate tracks. A plurality of push roller assemblies are attached to the endless chain. Each push roller assembly is sized so that, when the push roller assembly is directed onto the upper track, the corresponding rollers travel along the upper track between the raised portions. In embodiments, the conveyor system is part of an automated car wash system.

The shopping cart washer is a structure enabled to automatically wash shopping carts, receiving dirty carts on one end, and outputting the cleaned cart on the other end. Said carts are transported through the structure by means of a moving conveyor belt. Towards the entrance of the structure are pipes that emit steam and strategically placed sprayers to squirt the carts with water or cleaning fluid. Towards the exit are cooling fans horizontally placed to blow on outgoing carts, cooling and drying them before removal from the conveyor belt.

A vacuum cleaner comprising a connecting device to a thermal control system of a vehicle, a flexible hose with a connection end on the connecting device for creating suction into the flexible hose, and a dust collecting box mounted onto the flexible hose.

The invention relates to a fully automated sanitizing system (1) for shopping trolleys and the like. It provides an automated sanitization and disinfection process, divided into four phases, which guarantees the user to pick up the perfectly sanitized trolley without contact with third parties and steps for other hands, ready for its first use. The system (1) in question consists of an automated island to be placed in the parking area of supermarket or shopping center and consists of two adjacent units, one of which is intended for the storage of used trolleys where subsequently will carry out the sanitization cycle, the other destined to shelter and store the trolleys already sanitized and ready for collection in several rows. The sampling area has been designed in compliance with the anti distances aggregation. The use of this system (1) guarantees the almost total elimination of viral and bacterial loads on the trolleys.

A vehicle management system includes a vehicle use situation recognition unit recognizing that a user of a vehicle visits a predetermined area or a predetermined facility by the vehicle based on a position of the vehicle recognized by a vehicle position recognition unit and a vehicle cleaning handling unit transmitting vehicle cleaning information about cleaning of the vehicle to at least either one of a user terminal and a maintenance management server in a case where the vehicle use situation recognition unit recognizes that the user visits the predetermined area or the predetermined facility by the vehicle, the user terminal being used by the user, the maintenance management server managing maintenance of the vehicle.

Some embodiments of the disclosure provide a steam generator and a car washer with the steam generator. The steam generator includes: a boiler having a combustion chamber. The steam generator further includes: a windproof cover, at least a part of an ignition device of the steam generator being located in the windproof cover; an igniting cover, at least a part of the igniting cover being located in the combustion chamber, and an outlet of the windproof cover being located in the igniting cover; an air inlet grating, the air inlet grating being provided around the windproof cover and connected with the windproof cover, and the air inlet grating being located on an inner side of an air inlet of the igniting cover, to prevent airflow in the igniting cover from flowing out from the inlet of the igniting cover.

A washing system for use with a shopping cart includes at least one cleaning solution dispensing unit within a housing that is configured to broadcast a solution, spray, fog, or light onto at least one surface of the shopping cart. The system is configured to cleanse the cart and optionally sanitize a surface of the cart from transferable diseases and illnesses. The system may include a pump, a solution of liquid, a light emitting UV light, a heater and so forth. The dispensing unit may be a pressure washer and a sanitizer. Optionally a dryer may be included to dry the shopping carts as they pass through the housing of the washing system.

Quick service restaurants with car wash systems and traffic management systems for managing customer traffic and routing customers who have made food-only purchases and customers who have purchased both a food item and a carwash service. In some examples, graphical user interfaces incorporated in point of sale systems display time predictions for the delivery of food items and carwash services to aid and encourage customer selection of both food items and carwash services.