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Recapture of ions applied in a wash process

  • US 7,851,429 B2
  • Filed: 05/07/2007
  • Issued: 12/14/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of washing clothes in a clothes washer, the clothes washer having a wash zone for receiving a substrate load to be cleaned, comprising the steps:

  • providing a wash liquor for applying to the substrate load,loading the wash zone with the substrate load,providing an inactive bleaching agent in the wash liquor,thereafter, mixing metal ions with the inactive bleaching agent in the wash liquor to produce an active bleaching agent in the wash liquor,applying the wash liquor with the active bleaching agent to the substrate load, andcapturing the metal ions prior to a disposal of the wash liquor.

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