Patent ID: 8225445

Claim:
A method for the wet-treatment of items of laundry, comprising: a) washing the items of laundry in a treatment liquid in a pass-through washing machine with a rotatable drivable drum and consecutive chambers; b) transporting the items of laundry in direction of operation through the drum of the pass-through washing machine by consecutive transfer from one of the chambers into a following one of the chambers; c) transporting the items of laundry from the pass-through washing machine after final washing into a downstream water-removal device; d) removing water from the items of laundry and rinsing the items of laundry in the downstream water-removal device; e) temporarily storing rinse liquid which is produced during the water removal and the rinsing of step d); and f) separating the items of laundry from at least a large portion of bound liquor in the items of laundry before the items of laundry are rinsed in the downstream water-removal device.