Patent ID: 6889688

Claim:
A tube reel, comprising: a transportable housing; a yoke wedged within said housing; an elongated segmented spindle fixedly mounted to said yoke, said spindle having an air input port at one of its ends and an air output port disposed inboard of said air input port for defining an air passageway therebetween; a spool assembly mounted for rotational movement on said spindle, said spool assembly having a sufficient diameter and width dimension for holding a predetermined length of wound up tubing; and a freely rotatable cylindrical tube coupler removable mounted on said segmented segment for free three hundred and sixty degree rotation about said segmented spindle at about said air output port; wherein said housing includes a right side member and a left side member, said right side member and said left side member being adapted to be joined together to form a finger gripping handle at a top portion of said housing, a pair of oppositely disposed sidewall openings for providing interior access to said housing and a tube outlet port for helping to facilitate tube payout and retraction from an interior portion of said housing; and wherein said yoke includes a pair of spaced apart arms having a spacer disposed therebetween at one of their ends and a tube guide disposed therebetween at the other one of their ends to help facilitate side-to-side retracting motion of said tubing so that the tubing is evenly wound onto said spool assembly.