Pleated car wash element, method of manufacture and method of attachment

Abstract

A car wash brush is constructed using permanently pleated synthetic water-carrying material. In one form, radially-pleated fabric discs are stacked on a shaft. In another form, a single length of material is laterally pleated and punched to form a continuous pattern of holes along one edge, and assembled onto a spring or flexible cable which can be wrapped around a rotatable drive shaft. The brush so constructed is quiet in operation contact-washing a vehicle.

1 . A method of washing a vehicle comprising the steps of:
 constructing a car wash brush from multiple revolutions of synthetic, semi-porous, water-carrying material having permanently set-in radial pleats extending fully to the radially outer edges thereof; and   operating the brush so constructed in a rotary fashion in a water-wetted environment to wash a vehicle therewith.