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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald J Gray, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Peter T Gebhard, III, Providence, RI (US);
Assignee:
Gebhard-Gray Associates, Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B / ; B08B / ; B08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
134 10 ; 134 11 ; 134 12 ; 134 21 ; 134 40 ; 8159 ; 68 1 / ;
Abstract
Clothes are dry cleaned by placing the clothes in a tumbler/dryer, sealing the tumbler/dryer, applying a negative gauge pressure to the tumbler/dryer, providing solvent to the tumbler/dryer, activating the tumbler/dryer to dry clean the clothes, removing the solvent from the tumbler/dryer, and simultaneously throttling hot solvent vapor into the tumbler/dryer while removing vapor from the tumbler/dryer in order to dry the clothes.