- published: 01 Feb 2010
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A spinner is a type of hubcap that spins independently inside of a wheel itself when the vehicle is in motion, and continues to spin once the vehicle has come to a stop. Being an attachment to the car's wheel, spinners operate by using one or more roller bearings to isolate the spinner from the wheel, allowing it to turn while the wheel is at rest. The spinner's own momentum helps it overcome what little friction is transmitted through the bearing. When the car is in motion, the small amount of friction transmitted through the bearing sets the spinner in motion. Spinners were popular within the hip-hop community of the United States and are gradually fading out of vogue in popular culture.
In October 1992, a United States wheel spinner patent was filed by American inventor James (J.D.) Gragg from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who conceived and invented the original free-spinning Tru-Spinner in the late 1980s. The American Tru Spinners Wheel Enhancer spinner patent United States Patent #5,290,094 was issued on March 1, 1994, making Tru-Spinners the first free-spinning wheel spinner patent of its kind with foreign patents to follow, Patent #187,015 issued in October 1997. Gragg has over 100 inventions and has built many versions of spinning wheels including one that spun for over 18 minutes and Triple-Spinner with 27 different spinning mode capabilities and Holographic Tru-Spinners. Many imitation versions were made and sold. In 2003, Davin Wheels was issued a U.S. patent #6,554,370 for a non-adaptable spinning wheel only version called the continuous motion wheel.
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