Procedure for washing clothes

Claim 1

A process for the washing of clothes through a wash and rinse cycle in a washing machine with a horizontal, perforated, driven tub arranged inside a housing, wherein the tub has at its rotating periphery a tangential area, in which during the washing and rinsing cycles as the tub rotates, the clothes are repeatedly lifted up and then fall in a trajectory path onto the lower portion of the tub and are then distributed without unbalance to the tub, as the tub velocity is gradually increased, and are then centrifuged as the velocity is increased further, the improvement comprising the steps of wetting the clothes with an amount of suds that gives a "doughy" consistency to the clothes by filling the tub with suds until the level of suds does not significantly rise above the tangential area of the tub by maintaining in the tub during washing an aqueous medium level of at least about 5% of the tub's diameter, whereby the dry clothes are loaded individually into the tub which rotates at a speed at which the centrifugal velocity at the tub case is about 0.3-0.8 g, then increasing the tub speed to about 1 g, then gradually changing the speed to a spin speed and after the spinning, reducing the speed again to a velocity in keeping with the loading speed, and following the process with a rinse cycle which is similar to the washing cycle.