Lamp with retractable lamp cord

A lamp, comprising:

• a lamp base including a base housing having a base interior and a sleeve opening provided in said base housing;
• a shaft base carried by said base housing;
• a shaft base sleeve extending from said shaft base through said sleeve opening
• a clamp nut having a clamp nut body engaging said shaft base sleeve and a nut sleeve extending from said clamp nut body;
• a lamp shaft extending from said lamp base;
• a rotatable cord spool provided in said base interior of said lamp base and laving a pair of sleeve openings receiving said clamp nut;
• a spring provided in said base interior of said lamp base and engaging said clamp nut and said cord spool;
• first and second stator radial contacts provided on said nut sleeve of said clamp nut in said base interior of said lamp base and electrically connected to said light bulb socket;
• independently rotatable first and second rotor radial contacts disposed in electrical contact and coplanar relationship with said first and second stator radial contacts respectively;
• and
• a lamp cord electrically connected to said first and second rotor radial contacts and normally wound on said cord spool and extendable from said base interior of said lamp base.

A lamp, comprising:

• a lamp base including a base housing having a base interior;
• a lamp shaft extending from said base housing of said lamp base;
• a light bulb socket provided on said lamp shaft;
• a rotatable cord spool provided in said base interior of said lamp base;
• a spring provided in said base interior of said base housing and engaging said cord spool;
• generally annular first and second stator radial contacts provided in said base interior of said lamp base and electrically connected to said light bulb socket;
• independently rotatable first and second rotor radial contacts disposed in electrical contact and coplanar relationship with said first and second stator radial contacts, respectively:
• wherein each of said first and second rotor radial contacts includes a generally curved segment and a pair of generally elongated, spaced-apart contact segments extending from said curved segment and engaging opposite diametrically-opposed sides of said first and second stator radial contacts, respectively;
• and
• a lamp cord electrically connected to said first and second rotor radial contacts and normally wound on said cord spool and extendable from said base interior of said lamp base.