Patent ID: 7681328

Claim:
A system for spraying fabric in a fabric article drying appliance, the system comprising: a) a tumble dryer having a rotating drum; b) a treatment composition; c) a controller; and d) a pump, the pump comprising: i) a conduit wherein the conduit includes an inlet and a discharge for transferring the treatment composition from the inlet of the conduit to the discharge of the conduit; and ii) a nozzle having at least one orifice wherein the size of the orifice nozzle is between about 200 microns to about 600 microns wherein the nozzle is connected to the discharge of the conduit; whereby the controller controls the spraying of the treatment composition through the nozzle so as to spray onto fabric in the tumble dryer while the tumble dryer drum is rotating, the spray being characterized by a cone angle and having: i) a mean droplet size of the treatment composition of about 100 microns to about 1000 microns; ii) a cone angle formed by the spray in the tumble dryer between about 35° to about 150°; iii) a flowrate at the point the spray enters the tumble dryer of about 0.5 ml/min to about 100 ml/min; iv) a linear velocity at the point the spray enters the tumble dryer of about 0.5 m/second to about 20 m/second; and wherein the nozzle is positioned into the tumble dryer such that it is either in quadrant one, quadrant two, quadrant three, or quadrant four, and wherein the nozzle when present in quadrant one has a tilt angle ranging from about 80 to the left to about 45° to the right and from about 45° up to about 35° down; when present in quadrant two the nozzle has a tilt angle ranging from about 80° to the right to about 45° to the left and from about 45° up to about 15° down; when present in quadrant three the nozzle has a tilt angle ranging from about 80° to the right to about 45° to the left and from about 45° up to about 15° down; and when present in quadrant four the nozzle has a tilt angle ranging from about 80° to the left to about 15° to the right and from about 45° up to about 15° down.