the urethane adhesive tape in place to protect the virgin side of the tape for test purposes the impregnated sponges were attached to a suitable interior clothes dryer surface by first thoroughly cleaning the immediate area of the attachment next the glazed protective paper was removed from the urethane adhesive tape and the impregnated sponge was positioned and pressed onto the desired location to assure firmer adhesion of the loop side of the velcro fastener the impregnated sponge was carefully detached and the adhering loop side which remained attached to the clothes dryer surface was firmly pressed into place by rubbing briskly with the fingers the impregnated sponge was reattached to the drum by carefully aligning the mating halves of the velcro fastener and pressing firmly two of the impregnated sponges were evaluated by running a 20 cycle wash and dry test using a normal 7 8 pound load of clothes with dryer settings of a 120 u00b0 f and b 160 u00b0 f respectively the actual exit air temperature was recorded at both settings with a recording thermometer and found to be about 130 u00b0 and 150 u00b0 f respectively for these two settings the use of fabric softener for each cycle was determined by detaching and.