Lamp having resilient terminals

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AN ELECTRIC LAMP COMPRISING: A RADIANT ENERGY PRODUCING DEVICE; A HERMETICALLY SEALED RADIANT ENERGY TRANSMITTING ENCLOSURE CONTAINING SAID DEVICE AND HAVING AN AXIS THERETHROUGH; AN INTEGRAL BASE BELOW SAID ENCLOSURE GENERALLY COAXIAL WITH SAID AXIS; A PLURALITY OF ELECTRICAL LEADS FOR SAID DEVICE, SAID LEADS EXTENDING FROM SAID DEVICE TO SAID BASE, THENCE THROUGH THE WALL THEREOF, AND EMERGING AT RESPECTIVE POINTS NEAR THE REMOTE END OF SAID BASE VIA GLASSMETAL SEALS; A PLURALITY OF METALLIC MEMBERS, EACH OF SAID MEMBERS BEING INDIVIDUALLY ELECTRICALLY CONTINUOUS WITH A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID LEADS; EACH OF SAID MEMBERS RETROVERTING GENERALLY UPWARD FROM THE SAID POINTS, ALONGSIDE SAID WALL AND GENERALLY IN THE DIRECTION OF SAID AXIS; EACH OF THE SAID MEMBES HAVING A CONTACT AREA THEREON INCLUDED; SAID CONTACT AREA BEING LOCATED RADIALLY OPPOSITE AND FACING OUTWARDLY OF SAID WALL OF SAID BASE; AT LEAST ONE OF SAID AREAS BEING LOCATED IN A RESILIENTLY MOVABLE PORTION OF THE MEMBER INCLUDING SAID AREA; SAID PORTION DIVERGING SLIGHTLY AWAY FROM SAID WALL AND LEAVING A SMALL CLEARANCE SPACE THEREBETWEEN BEHIND SAID CONTACT AREA, SAID PORTION AGAIN CONVERGING AT LEAST IN PART THEREABOVE;