Abstract:
A process for drycleaning fabrics such as garments and other drycleanable materials, particularly highly soiled garments, by using hydrocarbon and chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents. The process includes a plurality of phases in a cleaning cycle wherein soiled garments are agitated in drycleaning solvent in each of the phases by mixing the solvent of a first phase with a detergent having a substantivity for the garments, removing the solvent of the first phase from the garments while the detergent is substantively retained by the garments and combining the solvent of a second phase with the garments containing the detergent for continued cleaning.