Patent ID: 7576480

Claim:
An electrical incandescent lamp comprising: a lamp vessel having a first and a second essentially rotationally symmetrical lamp vessel part, the respective parts extending in a common direction, side by side, the vessel parts having sealed ends at a common base and having connected ends displaced in the common direction from the sealed ends; and at least one luminous element having at least two luminous element limbs, the luminous element extending through at least a sealed end of the first vessel part through the first essentially rotationally symmetrical lamp vessel part around the connected ends to pass through the second essentially rotationally symmetrical lamp vessel part and through the sealed end of the second vessel part; wherein each respective rotationally symmetrical vessel part surrounds a respective luminous element limb at least in sections and wherein respective axes of the luminous element limbs are spaced apart one from another, wherein the lamp vessel parts intersect one another.