Handheld fluid leak sealing apparatus

Handheld waterbed-leak-sealing means for sealing leaks in waterbed membranes in situ without emptying water therefrom, comprising

• elongated base means and elongated first clamp means manually juxtaposable at a free end portion of each to grip a folded part of a normally dry face of a waterbed membrane, whose opposite face is wetted and under fluid pressure, the gripped part including a non-leaking annular membrane portion ringing a leak locus therein,
• said first clamp means having a bore through such free end portion thereof positionable over the leak locus, and thereby adapted to seal it off temporarily pending application of a patch thereto;
• and
• second clamp means having a head end insertable through such bore in the first clamp means, and thereby adapted to compress a patch therein over the leak locus and into adherence to such annular portion of the membrane to seal off the leak permanently;
• wherein such gripping end portions so juxtaposed are ramped apart from one another at increasing distance along the part of a waterbed membrane being gripped thereby from the rest of the waterbed.