Device for Inflating a Bicycle/Motorcycle Tire

Abstract

My invention is a portable air transferring device, involving two identical clip-on valves at each end of a hollow tube. When the clip-on valves are each engaged, air flows through the hose between a good car tire and a partially or fully deflated bicycle or motorcycle tire. The invention is for use in emergencies or in remote locations when other conventional sources of compressed or pumped air are unavailable. The invention includes a method for operating the device.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A portable air transferring device comprising:
 a hollow tube having first and second ends, which tube ends are fitted with a first and second, identical clip-on valves, each containing a spring-loaded clamping arm, mechanically joined to a slidable clamp, when disengaged they can be attached to a tire air stem, and when both are engaged they permit the passage of air with zero leakage.   
     
     
         2 . The method for transferring air from an inflated car or truck tire (source tire) to a deflated bicycle or motorcycle tire (target tire) in an emergent situation or at a remote location, comprising:
 placing and clamping one clip-on valve which is fixably attached to a hollow tube, onto an air stem of the target tire,   placing and clamping a second, identical clip-on valve which is fixably attached to the opposite end of the hollow tube, onto an air stem of the source tire,   counting to no more than two seconds, and then serially releasing each of the said clip-on valves from their respective air stems.