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ouvrant à frappe

English translation: casement-frame [window)

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French term or phrase:ouvrant à frappe [menuserie de bâtiment]
English translation:casement-frame [window)
Entered by: Tony M

21:28 Mar 28, 2004
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / Aluminium window systems
French term or phrase: ouvrant à frappe
Description of the type of opening casement of an aluminium double-glazed window. I know that it means basically 'a window that closes against its frame' [as distinct from say sliding], and has been said to be equivalent to 'à la française' (which seems to me to mean 'inward-opening'), but I can't for the life of me think how we say this in technical language in English!
Tony M
France
Local time: 19:01
casement window
Explanation:
"A window in which one or more sashes are hinged to open. Genreally, as in door hinges, the pins are vertical, that is the sashes are side-hung. IN Britain they usually open outwards and on the Continent inwards. They are simple and cheap, but easily damaged by the wind" [Scott/Penguin].

I'm not sure however that "casement" is not too specific, given that lots of "frappe" windows these days are not hinged (charnières) but have "parallelogram" type stays, where the "hinge" side of the sash also moves away from the frame. But it's the best I can come up with, and I THINK "casement" covers that configuration too, it's just that the above definition is a little old and from England, which was slower in taking up the new awning windows than the New World.
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Bourth (X)
Local time: 19:01
Grading comment
Thanks Alex! Client validated 'casement frame' (though I think that should in fact have been 'casement/frame'
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5 +1casement window
Bourth (X)
1bat-wing
NikD


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bat-wing


Explanation:
the only thing I could think of

NikD
Local time: 19:01
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casement window


Explanation:
"A window in which one or more sashes are hinged to open. Genreally, as in door hinges, the pins are vertical, that is the sashes are side-hung. IN Britain they usually open outwards and on the Continent inwards. They are simple and cheap, but easily damaged by the wind" [Scott/Penguin].

I'm not sure however that "casement" is not too specific, given that lots of "frappe" windows these days are not hinged (charnières) but have "parallelogram" type stays, where the "hinge" side of the sash also moves away from the frame. But it's the best I can come up with, and I THINK "casement" covers that configuration too, it's just that the above definition is a little old and from England, which was slower in taking up the new awning windows than the New World.

Bourth (X)
Local time: 19:01
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Grading comment
Thanks Alex! Client validated 'casement frame' (though I think that should in fact have been 'casement/frame'

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