Rotating punching roll for punching potato chips

Claim 1

ROTATING PUNCHING MEANS COMPRISING, A ROTATING SHAFT, A PLURALITY OF ROTATING DISCS MOUNTED ON SAID SHAFT, SAID DISCS HAVING AN OUTER SURFACE AND HAVING ADJACENT SIDE SURFACE MEANS FACING EACH OTHER WITH A SMALL CLEARANCE THEREBETWEEN AT THE OUTER PERIPHERY, A PLURALITY OF PUNCHING MEANS CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED APART AND MOUNTED BETWEEN SAID ADJACENT SIDE SURFACE MEANS OF SAID DICS, EACH SAID PUNCHING MEANS HAVING ANCHORING PORTION MEANS DISPOSED BETWEEN ADJACENT SIDE SURFACE MEANS OF SAID DISCS AND HAVING PIERCING PORTION MEANS PROJECTING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID DISCS, EACH SAID ANCHORING PORTION MEANS HAVING AN INWARDLY EXTENDING ANCHORING PORTION AND AN ANNULARLY EXTENDING ANCHORING PORTION, SAID ADJACENT SIDE SURFACE MEANS OF SAID DISCS HAVING CIRCUMFERENTIAL GROOVE MEANS OF A DIAMETER LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID DISCS, SAID ADJACENT SIDE SURFACE MEANS OF SAID DISCS HAVING CIRCUMFERENTIAL RIBS RADIALLY SPACED APART AND DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID GROOVE MEANS AND THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID DISCS, SAID RIBS HAVING AT CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED INTERVALS INWARDLY EXTENDING CLAMPING SURFACE MEANS EXTENDING THEREACROSS, SAID INWARDLY EXTENDING CLAMPING SURFACE MEANS ON SAID RIBS RECEIVING SAID INWARDLY EXTENDING ANCHORING PORTIONS OF SAID PUNCHING MEANS AND SAID GROOVE MEANS RECEIVING SAID ANNULARLY EXTENDING ANCHORING PORTIONS OF SAID PUNCHING MEANS, AND MEANS ON SAID SHAFT PRESSING THE ADJACENT SIDE SURFACE MEANS OF SAID DISC TOWARDS EACH OTHER AND CLAMPINGLY ENGAGING SAID INWARDLY EXTENDING ANCHORING PORTIONS OF SAID PUNCHING MEANS IN SAID INWARDLY EXTENDING CLAMPING SURFACE MEANS AND CLAMPING SAID ANNULARLY EXTENDING ANCHORING PORTIONS IN SAID GROOVE MEANS.