Patent ID: 6539685
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: E02D

Abstract:
An apparatus using anchor piers for lifting and stabilizing sunken and settled foundations, slabs, and footings of building structures, comprising:a lifting bracket having: a lifting plate for installing beneath a sunken building structure, said lifting plate having a guide pipe passage formed asymmetrically therethrough; a guide pipe solidly affixed through said guide pipe passage of said lifting plate and normal thereto, for passing concentrically about an anchor pier and retaining said lifting plate normal relative to the anchor pier and precluding cocking and tilting of said lifting plate relative to the anchor pier; and an adjustably positionable building structure attachment bracket selectively positioned about the guide pipe of said lifting bracket for securing said lifting bracket to a selected solid portion of the building structure, said structure attachment bracket including a semicircular central portion with a flange extending from each side thereof.