Abstract: An improved dry cleaning machine of the type utilizing powdered cleaning agents and having a rotating drum. Such machines have a shroud which completely surrounds the rotating drum and the shroud is connected to a collector and to the intake of an air blower. The draperies, furs, or the like are to be cleaned are rotated in the drum with the powdered cleaning agent for a predetermined amount of time after which the air blower is turned on and the cleaning agents are evacuated from the drum and deposited in the collector. The improved machine has a plurality of spring loaded plates over various groups of openings through the side of the drum.