Patent ID: 7282847

Claim:
An electric lamp comprising: an outer envelope carrying a lamp cap; a gastight closed glass lamp vessel with an axis and a pinch around the axis, mounted in the outer envelope, wherein said pinch is provided with first and second relatively broad side faces, facing away from one another and having a smallest interspacing, and wherein first and second relatively narrow side faces are provided between the broad side faces, said narrow side faces having a width that is greater than said smallest interspacing of the broad side faces, an electric element in the lamp vessel, connected to current conductors which issue from the lamp vessel to the exterior; electrical conductors connected to the lamp, entering the outer envelope and connected to respective current conductors; and a clamping member bent from metal sheet, gripping around the first narrow side face, and pressing against the broad side faces to hold the lamp vessel, which clamping member is held positioned in the outer envelope, wherein the clamping member has an open loop with a base having a first and a second leg, the first leg extending from the base transversely to the broad side faces along the first narrow side face and hooking behind the first broad side face, and the second leg extending at a distance from the first leg to the second broad side face and pressing tightly against it, while enclosing an acute angle therewith; wherein the clamping member does not extend along an entire length of at least one of the first broad side face and the second broad side face.