Abstract: A braking device for braking and depositing two-dimensionally extending workpieces, particularly cardboard packaging, which are fed so as to be spaced apart from one another, the workpieces are fed to a braking roller whose circumferential speed is slower than the feed speed of the workpieces, and at least one cam presses a workpiece passing the braking roller against the braking roller at the end of the workpiece in the feed direction and reduces the speed of the workpiece.