Originally Posted By: "Ted"
Ah, a chance to enlighten an idiot.
A Darne is a monoblock design, the originator of the concept.

Don't really want to get in the middle here between you & Joe but it is noted that US patent #246,195 was issued Aug 23, 1881 to one Henri Pieper of Liege Belgium for a "Means of Uniting Gun Barrels". I believe it was patented in Belgium about a year earlier. While Pieper did not use the term "Monoblock" this was in fact a monoblock design, plain, pure & simple. Pieper referred to it as his "One Piece Steel Breech". (A Rose by any other name is still a Rose)
If you don't mind would you enlighten us as to just how much earlier Darne "Originated this Concept".

Last edited by 2-piper; 11/04/09 06:18 PM.
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