A lifting device comprising: - an upper station; - a lower station; - a plurality of lifting and lowering placing tables (10, 11) that move in a vertical direction between the upper station and the lower station; - one or a plurality of upper side horizontal placing tables and one or a plurality of lower side horizontal placing tables, characterised in that: - the one or a plurality of upper side horizontal placing tables move horizontally in the upper station; and - the one or a plurality of lower side horizontal placing tables move horizontally in the lower station, - wherein when one of the lifting and lowering placing tables (10, 11) is in the upper station, the upper side horizontal placing table is at a position adjacent to the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11), and the upper side horizontal placing table and the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11) form a series of conveying passage, - wherein when the lifting and lowering placing table moves away from the upper station, the upper side horizontal placing table moves to a position where the lifting and lowering placing table used to exist, - wherein when one of the lifting and lowering placing tables (10, 11) is in the lower station, the lower side horizontal placing table is at a position adjacent to the lifting and lowering placing table, and the lower side horizontal placing table and the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11) form a series of conveying passage, and - wherein when the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11) moves away from the lower station, the lower side horizontal placing table moves to a position where the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11) used to exist. - an upper station; - a lower station; - a plurality of lifting and lowering placing tables (10, 11) that move in a vertical direction between the upper station and the lower station; - one or a plurality of upper side horizontal placing tables and one or a plurality of lower side horizontal placing tables, - the one or a plurality of upper side horizontal placing tables move horizontally in the upper station; and - the one or a plurality of lower side horizontal placing tables move horizontally in the lower station, - wherein when one of the lifting and lowering placing tables (10, 11) is in the upper station, the upper side horizontal placing table is at a position adjacent to the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11), and the upper side horizontal placing table and the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11) form a series of conveying passage, - wherein when the lifting and lowering placing table moves away from the upper station, the upper side horizontal placing table moves to a position where the lifting and lowering placing table used to exist, - wherein when one of the lifting and lowering placing tables (10, 11) is in the lower station, the lower side horizontal placing table is at a position adjacent to the lifting and lowering placing table, and the lower side horizontal placing table and the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11) form a series of conveying passage, and - wherein when the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11) moves away from the lower station, the lower side horizontal placing table moves to a position where the lifting and lowering placing table (10, 11) used to exist.