Submersible pump with guide means

A submersible electric motor-pump assembly having a drive motor and a pump connected therewith, which is lowerable into a body of fluid with the outlet of said pump being guided into engagement with a discharge pipe, comprising:

• co-operatively associated male and female aligning elements, one of which is secured to a fixed stationary reference and the other being secured to said moveable motor-pump assembly;
• a single circular pipe-like element extending upwardly from a fixed position proximate to the outlet of said pump for guiding the pump assembly as same is lowered in said body of said fluid, said aligning element which is fixedly secured being a slit guide sleeve having a pair of upper surfaces sloping downwardly to said slit for guiding said other alignment element into said slit, and the other alignment element is a moveable guide sleeve having a rib-like element extending from the inside surface of said moveable guide sleeve, whereby said rib-like element, and said slit guide the outlet of said pump into abutting relationship to said discharge pipe as said aligning elements co-operate together at least for a relatively short distance above the final resting position of said pump assembly, in order that as said pump assembly is further lowered, the outlet of said pump is aligned with said discharge pipe as said assembly and discharge pipe are brought into an abutting relationship at said resting position of said pump assembly.