Patent ID: 7651532

Claim:
A method of laundering a fabric load having improved drying rate, the method comprising the steps of: contacting the fabric load with an aqueous working fluid in a wash chamber of a washing machine; processing the fabric load with the aqueous working fluid; substantially removing the aqueous working fluid from the wash chamber; contacting the fabric load with a first non-aqueous working fluid, wherein the first non-aqueous working fluid is selected from the group of: terpenes, glycol ethers, polyols, ethers, esters of glycol ethers, esters of fatty acids, long chain carboxylic acids, long chain alcohols, short-chain alcohols, siloxanes, dibasic esters, aliphatic hydrocarbon, i-propyl myristate, soy methyl esters, ethyl hexyl lactate and mixtures thereof; substantially removing the first non-aqueous working fluid from the wash chamber; contacting the fabric load with a second non-aqueous working fluid that extracts the first non-aqueous from the fabric load, wherein the second non-aqueous working fluid is selected from the group of: methoxynonafluorobutane, ethoxynonafluorobutane, propoxynonafluorobutane and mixtures thereof; substantially removing the second non-aqueous working fluid from the wash chamber, thereby improving the drying rate and cycle time of the fabric load being laundered, and further comprising contacting the fabric load with a drying gas after the step of substantially removing the second non-aqueous working fluid from the wash chamber.