Lift device for personalization machine and personalization machine equipped with a lift device

Lift device for machine(s) for the personalization of cards, in particular chip cards, placed at the output of a first transfer device of a personalization machine and at the input of a second transfer device, the first transfer device being located at a height greater than the height at which the second transfer device is located, both transfer devices conveying the cards in a direction of movement, wherein the lift device comprises at least one pair of shafts spaced apart by a distance greater than the dimensions of the cards transversally to their direction of movement, each of the shafts being parallel to the direction of movement and equipped with a plurality of N flaps oriented parallel to the shaft, having dimensions arranged to support at least a part of the cards and radially distributed around the shaft every 360°/N, the shafts of a pair being synchronously driven by at least one driving means in rotation towards the inside and towards the bottom of the lift device, so that two flaps guide a card during its descent in the lift device.