Not the least of the advantages of the casement window is its adaptability to decoration. Panes of leaded glass may be used in variety of 
designs and stained glass panels employed, since there are no sashes lifting up or Jown to hide the pattern 
The Casement Window Problem 
THE VARIOUS ADVANTAGES OF THE CASEMENT WINDOW IN LIGHT AND AIR—WHERE CASEMENTS 
MAY BEST BE USED AND HOW THE DRAWBACKS OF INSTALLING THEM MAY BE ELIMINATED 
IS V J. C R o \v Taylor 
N general, the casement window is any window 
having a hinged or pivoted sash opening either 
outward or inward ; in other words, any win¬ 
dow the sash 
of which is 
hung and op- 
e r a t e s on 
hinges or piv¬ 
ots instead of 
operating o n 
slides or being 
permanen t 1 y 
fixed. 
Specifically 
we are more 
inclined to speak of casement 
windows as representing that 
type which is hinged to swing 
either inward or outward, and 
we do not often consider in this 
class, though they belong there 
technically, transoms and base¬ 
ment windows and small ven¬ 
tilating window sash. 
The mental picture that the 
name casement window brings 
to the average mind is a French 
door or window opening out of 
a room onto a veranda, or a German or Swiss type of balcony case¬ 
ment window. In reality the casement idea seems to have originated 
with the Germans and to have developed from the old Dutch 
door, which was divided hori¬ 
zontally into two halves, the 
top half of which could be 
swung open leaving the bottom 
half closed. This top half de¬ 
veloped into a sash door and 
out of this eventually came the 
casement window. 
The French use more case¬ 
ment windows, especially of the 
full-length door type, than any 
other people, but everywhere in 
the older countries the case¬ 
ment window has long been 
much more conspicuous than it 
is here. 
One explanation given for 
the popularity of the casement 
window in the old countries is 
that they are better joiners 
there and take more pains in 
fitting the joints and allow their 
timber more time to dry before 
working. Therefore they can 
make hinged windows to swing 
The simplest form of casement opens outward and has a stop molding, 
which keeps out rain and moisture 
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