Patent ID: 7120974

Claim:
A clasp for use with both a brooch and a pendant, comprising: a needle-shaped latch, a rear end of the needle-shaped latch is supported on a first end of one surface of a brooch main body so as to be free to rotate in a vertical direction, a latch receiver for latching a tip end of the latch, which is provided on a second end of the one surface of the brooch main body, the clasp for being attached to a piece of clothing by latching the latch passed through a part of the piece of clothing to the latch receiver, and a narrow support piece, a tip end of the narrow support piece is bent into a substantial right angle to the direction of an opposed opening of the latch receiver, the narrow support piece is provided on the first end of the one surface of the brooch main body, the rear end of the needle-shaped latch is supported on the tip end of the support piece to be free to rotate in a vertical direction, a leg of the needle-shaped latch protrudes toward the first surface of the brooch main body from the vicinity of a pivot portion of the latch, and a space surrounded at least in part by the support piece forms a chain insertion portion, wherein the clasp is configured such that when a pendant chain is passed through the chain insertion portion of the support piece and the tip end of the latch is latched by the latch receiver provided on the other end of the one surface of the brooch main body, a lower end of the leg of the latch abuts against or comes close to the one surface of the brooch main body, thus closing the chain insertion portion so that the pendant chain cannot become disengaged from the chain insertion portion.