Process for treating at least one garment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10640903-B2
Application number	US-201816005960-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 12, 2018
Priority date	Jun 13, 2017
Publication date	May 5, 2020
Grant date	May 5, 2020

Abstract

A process for treating at least one garment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A process of treating at least one garment consisting of the steps of;
a. spraying the at least one garment with a laundry treatment composition;
b. adding the at least one garment from step a to the drum of an automatic washing machine;
c. washing the at least one garment from step a in the automatic washing machine wherein the drum comprises a wash liquor, wherein the wash liquor consists of water and between about 50 ppm and about 3000 ppm of the laundry treatment composition and wherein the only laundry treatment composition added to the drum of the automatic washing machine is that used in step a.

2. The process according to claim 1 wherein the at least one garment is made from natural fabrics, synthetic fabrics, or a mixture thereof.

3. The process according to claim 2 wherein the at least one garment comprises cotton, silk, wool, cashmere, viscose, polyamides, polyester, polyacrylics, polyurethanes or a mixture thereof.

4. The process according to claim 1 wherein sufficient laundry treatment composition is sprayed onto the at least one garment such that in step c, the wash liquor comprises between about 75 ppm and about 2500 ppm of the laundry treatment composition.

5. The process according to claim 4 wherein sufficient laundry treatment composition is sprayed onto the at least one garment such that in step c, the wash liquor comprises between about 125 ppm and about 1750 ppm of the laundry treatment composition.

6. The process according to claim 1 wherein in step c, the wash liquor has a temperature of about 40° C. or less.

7. The process according to claim 6 , wherein in step c, the wash liquor has a temperature of between about 5° C. and about 40° C.

8. The process according to claim 1 wherein step c takes between about 1 minute and about 90 minutes to complete.

9. The process according to claim 8 wherein step c takes between about 5 minutes and about 60 minutes to complete.

10. The process according to claim 1 wherein between about 7 L and about 70 L of water are added to the drum to create the wash liquor.

11. The process according to claim 10 , wherein between about 7 L and about 30 L of water are added to the drum to create the wash liquor.

12. The process according to claim 1 wherein the drum of the automatic washing machine rotates at a speed of between about 0 rpm and about 1700 rpm during the wash process.

13. The process according to claim 12 wherein the drum of the automatic washing machine rotates at a speed of between about 100 rpm and about 1500 rpm during the wash process.

14. The process according to claim 1 wherein each garment is sprayed between about 1 and about 20 times.

15. The process according to claim 1 wherein the laundry treatment composition is a laundry detergent composition, a laundry softening composition, a laundry care composition, a laundry scent refresher composition or a mixture thereof.

16. The process according to claim 1 wherein the laundry treatment composition comprises surfactant.

17. The process according to claim 1 wherein the laundry treatment composition comprises a perfume, a chelant, a zwitterionic polyamine, a cationic polymer or a mixture thereof.

18. The process according to claim 1 wherein the at least one garment to be treated had previously been treated at least once in a fabric treatment process according to claim 1 .

19. The process according to claim 1 wherein at most about 10 garments are added to the drum of the automatic washing machine.

20. The process according to claim 1 , wherein said process of treating at least one garment is a process for washing said at least one garment.

21. The process according to claim 20 , wherein said laundry treatment composition comprises a cationic polysaccharide polymer.

Assignees

• Procter & Gamble

Inventors

• Bonnet Guillaume
• Ravidat Nans Elian
• Richmond Annalise Charlotte
• Hoefte Paulus Antonius Augustinus

Classifications

• D06B1/02 Primary

  by spraying or projecting (D06B1/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• D06B3/30

  of articles, e.g. stockings · CPC title

• C11D3/3947

  Liquid compositions · CPC title

• C11D11/0005

  Chemistry & Metallurgy · mapped topic

• C11D11/0017

  Chemistry & Metallurgy · mapped topic