Automatic car washing apparatus

Claim 1

IN A VEHICLE WASHING APPARATUS, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING: FIRST AND SECOND BRUSHES MOUNTED RESPECTIVELY TO FIRST AND SECOND FRAMES FOR ROTATION THEREON, SAID FRAMES BEING HORIZONTALLY SWINGABLE ON FIRST AND SECOND PIVOTAL AXES, RESPECTIVELY, SAID AXIS BEING ARRANGED TO PERMIT A VEHICLE TO PASS ALONG A PATH THEREBETWEEN AS IT IS WASHED, SAID FIRST PIVOTAL AXIS BEING AT ONE SIDE OF THE SAID VEHICLE PATH, AND SAID SECOND PIVOTAL AXIS BEING AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SAID VEHICLE PATH, SAID FIRST AND SECOND BRUSHES BEING INITIALLY SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED TRANSVERSELY OF SAID PATH, SAID FIRST BRUSH BEING NORMALLY DISPOSED OUT IN THE SAID PATH AND SAID SECOND BRUSH BEING NORMALLY AT THE SAID OTHER SIDE OF THE PATH, SAID FIRST AND SECOND PIVOTAL AXES BEING STAGGERED TRANSVERSELY OF SAID VEHICLE PATH, WITH SAID FIRST PIVOTAL AXIS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY NEARER THAN IS SAID SECOND AXIS TO A VEHICLE APPROACHING SAID BRUSHES ALONG SAID PATH, AND SAID FIRST FRAME BEING SWINGABLE OUTWARDLY TOWARD SAID ONE SIDE OF THE PATH DURING CONTACT OF SAID FIRST BRUSH BY THE VEHICLE AND MOVEMENT THEREBY IN ONE DIRECTION ALONG SAID PATH TO CAUSE SAID FIRST BRUSH TO FIRST CLEAN THE FRONT AND THEN ONE SIDE OF THE VEHICLE, AS THE VEHICLE MOVES ALONG SAID PATH IN SAID DIRECTION, AND SAID SECOND FRAME BEING SWINGABLE INWARDLY TOWARD THE CENTER OF SAID PATH AND IN THE SAID ONE DIRECTION TO CAUSE SAID SECOND BRUSH TO FIRST CLEAN THE OTHER SIDE AND THEN REAR OF HE VEHICLE AS THE VEHICLE MOVES ALONG SAID PATH, AND CONTROL MEANS COUPLED TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND FRAMES AND RESPONSIVE TO THE OUTWARD SWINGING OF SAID FIRST FRAME TO INITIATE THE INWARD SWINGING OF SAID SECOND FRAME TO URGE SAID SECOND BRUSH INWARDLY AGAINST SAID OTHER SIDE OF THE VEHICLE AT A POINT BEHIND THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE.