Abstract: A tire patching apparatus which is easy to use and can be employed by an untrained person, which includes a gun-shaped device including a container for adhesive in its handle; one wall of the container being a vertically pivoted piston actuated by the trigger to squeeze adhesive out from the barrel and a tubular rubber patch insertable in a hole in a tire and adapted to be temporarily secured by a clip and a chain to the gun while adhesive is spread around it while in the hole. The patch is pulled by the clip until the seat of the patch has reached the inside surface of the tire and then its projecting part is severed even with the tire tread.