Patent ID: 8631618

Claim:
A structural cap for installing a leg of a tower to a radial array of battered micropiles installed at a predetermined batter angle, the structural cap comprising: a body; a mounting member attached to and protruding from the body substantially at a center of the body, the mounting member for receiving the tower leg; multiple bearing flanges spaced along a perimeter of the body to attach to the radial array of battered micropiles, each of the bearing flanges comprising: a substantially planar plate fixed to the perimeter of the body and extending from the perimeter of the body at an angle that substantially matches the predetermined batter angle of the radial array of battered micropiles; and an elongated aperture having a length longer than a width to receive at least a portion of a battered micropile of the radial array of battered micropiles, the length of the elongated aperture arranged in the substantially planar plate such that the length of the elongated aperture is substantially perpendicular to the perimeter of the body.