Originally Posted By: Gunwolf
Hello Ami,

of course you are right, the soft solder was quite common but nevertheless Merkel had hold a Petent on this method of fixing the barrels O/U, please look here:

http://www.jagdwaffensammler.de/bockdoppelbuechse-gebr-merkel/laufverbindung-pat-merkel.html

I'm sure, your german allows you to understand it... ;-)
The only problem is, this Patent is from 1930 and the Gun of Texasjack is out of 1929...! But of course, Merkel would have had any other Patents.


I really don't understand this series of posts as I haven't followed this very closely, but from what I remember Merkel used the term Weichlot on the top tube and on the order form. Was it not on the additional tubeset? Possibly Merkel was using the technology prior to filing a patent?

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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