Patent ID: 7134262

Claim:
A method of drying of wet ground surfaces provided with stalks, comprising the steps of: removing droplets from stalks with comb-shaped slitted, cubical or squared projections, wherein said projection are arranged in multiple rows on an underside of a broad plank, wherein the plan is broad in a movement direction of the projections; and guiding the removed droplets along the slitted, cubical or squared projections toward lower edges of the slitted, cubical or squared projections and from there onto a ground surface, wherein each of said slitted, cubical or squared projections has a plurality of downwardly extending stripping plates which are spaced from one another to form longitudinal slits which are at most only insignificantly wider than a throughgoing width of the stalks, and wherein a respective length of said downwardly extending stripping plates of said comb-shaped slitted, cubical or squared projection increases opposite to the movement direction toward the rear edge of said broad plank.