Patent ID: 8671948

Claim:
A method of making a corded earplug, including the following steps: providing a flexible cord material, providing a pair of earplugs and with each earplug having a nose portion for insertion into the ear and a rear portion extending from the nose portion and lying outside of the ear when the nose portion is inserted into the ear, providing each rear portion with a pair of openings physically displaced from each other or angularly displaced from each other and with at least one opening extending through the rear portion, inserting a short portion of the flexible cord material through the at least one opening extending through the rear portion, and inserting the short portion of the flexible cord material after the short portion of the flexible cord material has been extended through the at least one opening extending through the rear portion into the other opening in the rear portion to have the short portion of the flexible cord material physically displaced or angularly displaced along its length to lock the flexible cord material to the rear portion of the earplug.