Abstract: An installation for evacuating emanations in the taphole region of a shaft furnace (e.g. blast furnace) of the type having a blast connection arrangement around the furnace bosh, together with a blast connection stage or platform for the inspection and servicing of the blast connections, and in which the molten metal is periodically tapped with the aid of tapping means and run off through a main tapping runner or spout includes the feature wherein a portion of the blast connection platform is adapted to be tilted away in the upward direction. This tiltable platform portion, when in its untilted position forms, together with vertical side walls which extend from the two side ends of the platform portion, a flue-like exhaust duct for the emanations produced directly in the taphole region. The present invention further comprises a movable exhaust hood connected to a stationary suction line and a mobile tapping spout hood having at the top an exhaust opening situated under the exhaust hood.