Patent ID: 8701651

Claim:
A modular trivet member for a stove including a first bar, a first footing at a first end of the first bar, a second footing at a second end of the first bar, and one or more transverse bars, each transverse bar being transverse to the first bar and intersecting therewith, a second bar, wherein the second bar is one of the one or more transverse bars, and the second bar has a third footing at a first end of the second bar and a fourth footing at a second end of the second bar, wherein the first bar includes one or more upwardly facing transverse slots adapted to receive a cross member of a second modular trivet member, wherein the first bar includes a reinforcing block through which one of the one or more transverse slots passes, wherein each end of the first and second bars includes a threaded projection, and each footing includes a foot pad that can be adjusted in height by adjusting a screw cooperating with one of the threaded projections.