Patent ID: 6896468

Claim:
An electrically powered floor maintenance machine, comprising: a battery assembly slidably attached between a front end and a back end of the floor maintenance machine; a docking side, the battery assembly slidable away from the floor maintenance machine at the docking side; a locking mechanism attached to the docking side of the floor maintenance machine; wherein the docking side of the floor maintenance machine is alignable with a docking station so that the locking mechanism is engagable with the docking station, the battery assembly slidable from the floor maintenance machine to a slidable receiving member of the docking station when the locking mechanism is engaged with the docking station and wherein the machine further comprises an alignment member attached to the docking side of the floor maintenance machine, the alignment member slidably connectable to an alignment receiving member of the docking station and wherein the alignment member is retractable within the floor maintenance machine.