High speed peroxide textile bleaching process

Claim 1

THE METHOD OF BLEACING A COTTON TEXTILE COMPRISIN DAMPENING SAID TEXTILE WITH FROM 50 TO 150% OF ITS DRY WEIGHT OF AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION CONTAINING ALKALI EQUIVALENT TO FROM 1 TO 6% CAUSTIC SODA, THEN SUBJECTING THE DAMPENED TEXTILE TO THE DIRECT ACTION OF SATURATED STEAM AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM 275 TO 400%F. AND AT A PRESSURE CORRESPONDING TO SAID TEMPERATURE; DAMPENING TO SO-TREATED TEXTILE WITH FROM 50 TO 150% OF ITS DRY WEIGHT OF AN AQUEOUS ALKALINE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE SOLUTION CONTAINING FROM 0.05 TO 3* HYDROGEN PEROXIDE, AND BLEACHING THE TEXTILE DAMPENED WITH THE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE SOLUTION BY SUBJECTING IT TO THE DIRECT ACTION OF SATURATED STEAM AT A TEMPERATURE OF 275 TO 400*F. AND AT A PRESSURE CORRESPONGING TO SAID LAST NAMED TEMPERATURE, THE TIME PERIODS FOR BOTH OF SAID STEAMING TREATMENTS NOT EXCEEDING A TOTAL OF 60 SECONDS.