Patent ID: 8920694

Claim:
A method of making a composite product comprising: disposing a substrate within a loop of a belt of a material layering device; pinning the substrate between a first pinning roller and a second pinning roller by contacting the substrate with the loop of the belt; rotating the belt and the substrate while pinning the substrate between the first pinning roller and the second pinning roller with the loop of the belt, wherein a portion of the loop of the belt wraps around the substrate along an arc that is greater than about 180 degrees to subject the substrate to a radial pressure exerted continuously along the arc by the portion of the loop of the belt; feeding at least one sheet of composite material into the loop of the belt with the rotation of the belt by placing the at least one sheet of composite material on a surface of the belt in a feed portion of the material layering device; wrapping the at least one sheet of composite material around the substrate with the rotation of the belt to attach the at least one sheet to the substrate to form a composite product; and removing the composite product from the loop of the belt.