Welcome to the technical pages of inventor and trouble shooter Alan Lovegreen.
The purpose of these web pages is to entice young engineers and entrepreneurs to think.

Not to offer the machines but to give some idea of what can be done in the way of solving problems.

They are the illustrated story of one man's efforts and inventions and some of his designs, why they were needed, how they came about, some of the personalities involved, the journeys, comments and statements made over a fifty year period of intense activity.

A word about the web address:-
I found that nearly every project started with someone asking 'wudja' as in 'Would you take a look at this' or 'Would you put your mind to that'

So 'wudja' it is and I hope you enjoy the site.

I have found that betting my abilities to design and build against the risk of failure has been sufficiently exciting that I have never needed to bet on horses, dogs or cards.

These are the major Lovegreen machines in chronological order.

1. Elutriators (Patented Worldwide)

2. Flat bottomed hydro-cyclones

3. Dewatering rubber conveyor belt (Patented Worldwide)

4. Standing wave separators (Patented Worldwide)

5. Rotating belt dewatering presses

6. GRP bodied rotating belt presses

7. Cavitation aerators.

8. High Speed Surface aerators

9. Hydrofloat systems

10. Submersible cavitation aerators.

Major Consulting Projects

11. Tarbela Joint Venture project 1970

12. Kuwait 1974

I happen to be lucky in that inventing things comes naturally. Being told something is impossible has often been the incentive.

An Observation.

Every Tom, Dick and Harry will tell you your invention will not work, however, if you are confident, carry on experimenting and making test rigs until you have a set of reliable, repeatable, demonstratable results.

Use the Internet to examine patents in the same field to ensure that your work is novel.

If you are in employment and you experimenting at work you have obligations to your employer.

It is not my purpose here to give advice about what you should do next because no two situationa are the same and there are too many variables but at very little cost you can get preliminary advice from your National Patent Office.

All inventions create new results in some field and those results being different from what went before often give rise to new processes.
And of course one invention will lead to another.

The story behind each machine will be told and illustrated so that young engineers may realise that there is fun and excitement to be had from building all kinds of machines and for offering solutions to problems by observing and thinking, by moving skills and processes from one industry to another and by moving whole processes across continents and to pass on the message: always to be on the look out for fresh ways to solve problems: try to be a sideways thinker.