Patent ID: 8651463

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a balustrade, said method comprising: providing a plurality of posts; attaching the posts to a substrate, each with an upright orientation; assembling attachment formations and attaching them to the upper end of each post; and installing at least one top rail by attaching it to the attachment formations by receiving a lateral protuberance of the attachment formations inside a recess defined in an end of the top rail, with a press-fit; wherein the attachment formations include an upward protuberance extending upwards from the upper end of the post, the lateral protuberance is part of a tube that has at least one longitudinal slot in a lower portion thereof, said slot extending from one end of the tube and forming a blind end intermediate the ends of the tube and the step of assembling the attachment formations includes receiving the upward protuberance in the slot, at least in part, by sliding it longitudinally along the slot from the end of the tube, until the upward protuberance is tightly received in the end of the slot.