What is dry-cleaning and how is it dry?
The answer to that question is as simple or as complex as one wants to investigate. Simply put, dry-cleaning is washing garments or items in a non-water fluid or solvent. It is dry because the items being cleaned are not immersed in water. They are “washed” or immersed in a clear solvent inside of a specially designed machine meant to use a specific type of dry-cleaning solvent. The clothes are loaded into the dry-cleaning machine, solvent is poured through the clothes as they are tumbled inside the machine, the machine starts an extract cycle much like a home washer, and then the clothes are dried in the very next cycle. All of this is done within the same machine all at one time without loading or unloading between cycles. Of course there are many more intricate details involved in this process. For those of you who wish to know more about the dry-cleaning process, there is an excellent article posted on a very good website, HowStuffWorks.com. Please click the link below to go direct
