To provide an exhaust filter device hardly causing an over-collected state of particulates.

This exhaust filter device is provided with a particulate filter 11, a containing tube 12 for containing that, and presser plates 13 respectively inserted to both end parts of the containing tube 12. The particulate filter 11 comprises foam metal or foam ceramic, an outer circumferential surface of the particulate filter 11 is enclosed with a mesh body 16 woven of metal wire, and the mesh body 16 exists as a cushion member between an outer circumferential surface of the particulate filter 11 and an inner surface of the containing tube 12. Plurality of plate filters 11a of similar form and size comprising foam metal or foam ceramic are laminated on each other to form the particulate filter 11, a metal foil 14 or a metal thin plate is wound around it, and the wound metal foil 14 or metal thin plate is enclosed with the mesh body 16. The presser plate 13 comprises a plate having 13b, and a metal gauze 18 is provided between an end part of the particulate filter 11 and the presser plate 13.