Clasp for jewelry items

Clasp for jewelry items comprising a tongue member and a socket member, said tongue member being connected to one terminal end of a jewelry item and said socket member being connected to the other terminal end of the jewelry item, said socket member formed from a single piece of metal into a rectangular box having an open end to receive said tongue member, said tongue member formed from a single piece of metal being folded back on itself to form a resilient part on the upper surface thereof extending outwards into an elevated bent portion that is adapted for being used as the handle means of the clasp, said clasp being brought into a locked position when, following slidably inserting of said tongue member into said socket member, a snapping engagement occurs between an engaging element on the resilient part on the upper surface of said tongue member and an engaging element on the upper surface of said socket member and said clasp being brought into an unlocked position when, following manual pressing downwards of said elevated bent portion at the tongue member of the clasp, disengagement occurs between said engaging element on the upper surface of said tongue member and said engaging element on the upper surface of said socket member and said tongue member is slidably withdrawn from said socket member of the clasp, each one of said tongue member and said socket member of the clasp extending into a hook end formation adapted for rotatable connection to corresponding terminal ends of the jewelry item, wherein when the clasp is connected at a jewelry item with axial pin terminal ends said hook end formations of said tongue member and said socket member of the clasp correspondingly encage the axial pin terminal ends of the jewelry item and are subsequently closed to effect a freely rotatable connection of the clasp to the jewelry item, whilst when the jewelry item does not include axial pins on each one of the terminal ends thereof, said clasp comprising an extra connecting element for each one of the terminal ends of the jewelry item to effect rotatable connection of the clasp to the terminal ends of the jewelry item, said extra connecting element being a single piece of sheet metal being folded back on itself to form a pair of closely spaced parallel surfaces at one end thereof, in between which is fitted and fixedly soldered the terminal end of the jewelry item and an axial pin at the other end thereof, wherein the clasp is connected at the terminal ends of the jewelry item with said hook end formations of said tongue member and said socket member of the clasp correspondingly encaging the axial pins of the extra connecting elements at the terminal ends of the jewelry item and subsequently being closed to effect a freely rotatable connection of the clasp to the jewelry item.