The Browning-Petter system or Browning-Petter-SIG system of breechblocks goes back to John Browning and Charles Petter.
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It was developed by the Swiss Charles Petter (a former captain of French Foreign Legion), engineer of the French company Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques de Cholet (SACM) and used by the French Army in several wars.