Abstract: A hot stamping machine including a stamping member which presses a stamping foil against a peripheral surface of articles which are successively positioned in a stamping position and wherein stamping foil is removed from an unwinding mechanism for each stamping sequence and passes in succession into a suction box, along a braking surface and opposite the stamping member that urges the foil against an article, and wherein a reserve of foil is available in the suction box between the unwinding means and the braking surface, while the foil is tensioned between the stamping member and the article, during stamping of the article, and between the braking surface and a rewinding mechanism.

Abstract: This hot stamping machine comprises a stamping member, which is intended to press a stamping foil against the peripheral surface of individual articles in order to stamp said articles, the individual articles being positioned successively into a stamping position and stamped by a stamping sequence which is repeated far each article. The machine comprises stamping foil unwinding means, intended to sequentially unwind a length of stamping foil at the end of each stamping sequence for the next stamping sequence, and stamping foil rewinding means. The stamping machine further comprises a stamping foil suction box and a stamping foil braking surface, the braking surface having a fixed orientation relative to the frame of the machine during each stamping sequence.