Patent ID: 7966684

Claim:
A method for laundering fabric in a laundering apparatus comprising: disposing a fabric load in a container; washing the fabric with a wash fluid comprising a non-aqueous working fluid; removing the wash fluid after washing; drying the fabric load after removing the wash fluid from the container, the drying comprising: flowing drying gas through the container to dry the fabric load; sensing a non-aqueous working fluid concentration in the fabric while flowing the drying gas through the container; sensing the moisture concentration in the fabric while flowing the drying gas through the container; determining whether the non-aqueous working fluid concentration is less than about 5% by mass of fabric and determining whether the moisture concentration is less than about 4% by mass of the fabric, and adding additional moisture to the fabric when it is determined that the non-aqueous fluid concentration is less than about 5% by mass of fabric and it is also determined that the moisture concentration is less than about 4% by mass of fabric.