Anchor and railing assembly

An anchor and railing assembly for anchoring a railing having a planar wall with an opening therethrough to a support structure having a planar wall with an opening thereinto, comprising:

• a plurality of one-piece anchors, each one-piece anchor of said plurality of anchors consisting of an anchor baseplate having a planar top surface and a planar bottom surface with an opening therethrough, and an elongated, cylindrical post having a top end portion permanently secured to said anchor baseplate and a bottom end portion projecting perpendicular to, and below, said planar bottom surface of said anchor baseplate, and an at least partially internally-threaded cylindrical blind bore having an open top end extending from said opening in said top surface of said anchor baseplate to a closed bottom end thereof located in said bottom end portion of said elongated, cylindrical post;
• a plurality of balusters;
• means for fastening each of said baluster of said plurality of balusters to a different one of said one-piece anchors via said threaded blind bore thereof, said means comprising a plurality of threaded mechanical fasteners, each having a straight thread and each fastener of said plurality of threaded mechanical fasteners being attached to a different said baluster of said plurality of balusters and with a straight edge thereof being threadably receivable in a different one of said at least partially internally-threaded blind bore of each one-piece anchor of said plurality of one-piece anchors;
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• means for fastening each said anchor baseplate of each said one-piece anchor to the support structure for permitting said planar bottom surface of each said anchor baseplate and the planar wall of the support structure to lie adjacent and parallel to one another, except for a portion of said planar bottom surface of each said anchor baseplate covered by said post.