Abstract: Carpeting, upholstery, drapery and other textile fibers are cleaned by applying to the fibers, from a pressurized container, an aqueous effervescing internally carbonated non-detergent cleaning composition prepared by admixing, in percent by weight, about 20 to 60% of a carbonate salt, about 20 to 60% of a natural solid acid, and 5 to 40% urea in an aqueous medium such that the natural solid acid reacts with the carbonate salt to produce carbon dioxide and the solids concentration in the solution resulting from the carbonate salt, natural solid acid and urea is between about 0.5 and 10% by weight. Citric acid and sodium carbonate are the preferred solid acid and carbonate salt. The composition is prepared from naturally occurring ingredients and the container is pressurized by air or other environmentally safe gaseous materials.

Abstract: A shrinkage setting process for a cloth material carried out by impregnating the cloth material with a caustic liquid or a liquid mixture prepared by mixing auxiliaries in the caustic liquid or with a dyeing liquid. The cloth material is then subjected to a hygro-thermic treatment to shrink or dye the cloth material in a no tension state within a high pressure steamer the inside of which is kept at conditions of high heat and humidity. Following the hygro-thermic treatment, the cloth material is subjected to a no tension boiling treatment carried out with a liquid flow within a boiling tank which is disposed inside the same high pressure steamer. Then, the degree of shrinkage of the cloth material is set by gradually cooling it down to about 50.degree. C. to let the cloth material permanently retain a sufficient degree of stretchability.

Abstract: Textile materials formed of polyester or nylon fibers having improved durable soil release characteristics are provided by application to the textile material of at least about 0.001 weight percent of a water-soluble cellulose acetate polymeric constituent having a degree of substitution of the acetyl moiety of from about 0.6 to about 0.9. Such water-soluble cellulose acetate polymeric constituent are represented by the formula ##STR1## WHEREIN X IS AN INTEGER OF AT LEAST 50, N IS AN INTEGER OF FROM ABOUT 2.4 TO ABOUT 2.1, AND THE EXPRESSION 3-N IS THE DEGREE OF SUBSTITUTION OF THE ACETYL MOIETY. The water-soluble cellulose acetate polymeric constituent can be applied to the fabric from an aqueous pad bath containing the polymeric constituent; by exhaustion techniques during the dyeing of the textile material; or as an aqueous spray.

Abstract: An improved process for the continuous dyeing or printing of lengths of textile material, especially tufted carpet panels, having backing materials which are subjected to at least partially a change in length during a dye fixation process of the pile portion of the textile material under saturated steam conditions, the process including the step of setting the fibers making up the backing material prior to applying dye to the pile fibers.