Patent ID: 7143935

Claim:
Machine for the mechanical personalization of supports adapted to be used as identification cards, comprising: a mechanical personalization group of the card, adapted to interact with a card to be mechanically personalized so as to realize, on a surface of the card, strings of symbols, and a card moving and positioning device of the card to be mechanically personalized relative to said mechanical personalization group, wherein said moving and positioning device of the card comprises a pair of belt elements extended and jointly movable along a first direction of a plane containing the card to be personalized, said belt elements being arranged at a mutual distance, in a second direction orthogonal to said plane, such as to allow said pair of belt elements receiving, accommodating and holding therebetween by friction the card to be personalized, and retaining means activatable for holding the card present between the two belt elements against skids, so that the card is moved in the first direction integrally with the belt elements.