Gotta say .. it was the Winchester Model 1885 Highwall that was a "clone" of the original Browning rifle, not the other way around!
Browning designed this action, and marketed it as the Model 1878 for a number of years, before selling the design to Winchester, who wanted to add a good, reliable single-shot rifle to their product line, bringing it out as their Model 1885 …
Browning refers to its more recent-production rifles as the Model 78 as a nod to this history ...
Here is an original Model 1878 Browning rifle, with an inset of its barrel markings ...