Charles Gabriel Petter was a Swiss firearms designer.
10 Facts About Charles Petter
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Charles Petter is best known as the designer of the Pistolet automatique modele 1935A.
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Charles Petter designed a submachine gun that was patented and formally adopted into French service in 1939, but never produced.
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Charles Petter became an employee of Krupp in Essen, Germany.
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Charles Petter received two French decorations, the Croix de Guerre and membership in the Legion of Honour.
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Charles Petter was made a French citizen by presidential decree in 1916.
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Charles Petter was married twice, in 1909 to Louise Marguerite Paule Charavet, and in 1926 to Xenia Schegloff.
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The Charles Petter-Browning system of breechblocks is named after John Browning and Charles Petter.
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Charles Petter designed the French Model 1935A pistol, which had some of the same design elements as Browning's M1911 pistol, such as the grooved slide and barrel which interlocked and recoiled together until a pivoting link lowered the barrel, thus unlocking the assembly and further rearward movement of the barrel and slide together, which after reaching the point of greatest movement would be returned to battery.
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Charles Petter eliminated the barrel bushing and used a full length spring guide which had the effect of removing some of the inaccuracy from the M1911 design and increased functional reliability.