Patent ID: 9049955
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
1. A smokeless stovetop grilling device, comprising: a grilling surface, said grilling surface having a plurality of upward pointing V-shaped first members, each of said first members having a first end, a second end and parallel side edges; said first members being attached at said first and second ends to a first supporting frame and having adjacent pairs of said side edges spaced from one another by a first distance; a catch tray, said catch tray having a plurality of downward pointing V-shaped second members, each of said second members having a hollow core, a first end, a second end and parallel side edges; said second members being attached at said first and second ends to a second supporting frame and having adjacent pairs of said side edges spaced from one another by a second distance; said first supporting frame being located over said second supporting frame such that a mid-point between said parallel side edges of each of said first members is centrally located between and above said parallel side edges of two adjacent second members and a mid-point between said parallel side edges of each of said second members being centrally located between and below said parallel side edges of two adjacent first members; a heat conducting element, said conducting element having a plurality of upward pointing third members, each of said third members having a first end, a second end and an upper edge; said third members being attached to a third supporting frame and being spaced from one another by a third distance; said third members extending upwardly through spaces between said second members and contacting each of said first members; a manifold, said manifold providing a fluid connection to at least one of said second members; a pressurized cooling fluid source, said fluid source being fluidly connected to said manifold; and whereby, when said smokeless grilling device is placed on a stovetop burner and food is placed on said grilling surface, said burner activated and pressurized cooling fluid introduced into said manifold, said burner will heat said third members which conduct heat to said first members of said grilling surface and drippings from said food will follow a downward path to said second members of said catch tray and said catch tray will be cooled by said cooling fluid, thereby preventing said catch tray from smoking.