Patent ID: 6453538
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: E04F,E04H,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of assembling an outdoor railing system comprising:providing a plurality of rails, each individual rail of said plurality of rails having top and bottom edges with first and second opposite sides between the edges defined along the longitudinal length thereof; forming a plurality of multi-sided recesses within each of said plurality of rails along the respective first sides, each multi-sided recess being formed in a single one of said edges and a single one of said sides; providing a plurality of spindles, each individual spindle of said plurality of spindles, having a first end and a second end defining a shape complementary to said multi-sided recesses; placing the first end of each of the plurality of spindles into a corresponding multi-sided recess defined along a first rail of the plurality of rails; placing the second end of each of the plurality of spindles into a corresponding multi-sided recess defined along a second rail of the plurality of rails, the first rail and the second rail being positioned a spaced distance apart and the spindles being vertically aligned therebetween; securing the respective first ends and second ends of the plurality of spindles within said multi-sided recesses.