Patent ID: 7470090

Claim:
A lifting bracket for mounting on an anchor pier for use in a system for lifting horizontal building supports such as foundations, the bracket comprising: a lifting plate, a gusset plate and a slide collar, said slide collar elongate and sized to fit snugly over an exposed upper end of the anchor pier for sliding engagement thereon, said lifting plate mounted to said slide collar so as to extend cantilevered in a first direction substantially orthogonally therefrom, and so as to leave at least an upper portion of said slide collar extending upwardly from said lifting plate, said gusset plate rigidly mounted at a lower edge thereof to an upper surface of said lifting plate so as to extend substantially entirely across said lifting plate in substantially a second direction orthogonal to said first direction, said gusset plate rigidly mounted at at least an upper portion thereof to said at least an upper portion of said slide collar disposed above said lifting plate, said gusset plate extending rigidly from said at least an upper portion of said slide collar to said lifting plate, a plurality of apertures formed in said gusset plate so that corresponding fasteners when journalled through said apertures extend parallel to said first direction so as to engage a side surface of a building support when a lower edge of the building support is resting on said lifting plate with the side surface abutting said gusset plate, wherein said lifting plate has a forward edge for engaging in said first direction under the building support and a rear edge opposite said front edge, and wherein said slide collar is mounted to said lifting plate adjacent said rear edge of said lifting plate, and wherein said gusset plate is mounted substantially orthogonally to said lifting plate on a front side of said slide collar opposite an opposite rear side of said slide collar adjacent said rear edge of said lifting plate.