A battery pack for an electric appliance has a base body, a locking unit
for locking the base body to the electric appliance, an actuating element
for unlocking the base body, which element is intended to be actuated by
a user in an actuating direction, and a removal direction in which it is
possible to remove the base body after it has been unlocked from the
electric appliance. The actuating direction has at least one component
oriented counter to the removal direction.