from second housing base 12 or vice versa in a direction within a certain angular range governed by the length of the bellows like member 14 enabling the casing 11 to easily reach the inner sole of different types of shoes fig6 illustrates the use of the preferred embodiment found in fig5 a supporting member 5 may be rotatably joined to second housing base 12 through a joint 51 to allow the apparatus to stand on its own fig7 shows a perspective view of another preferred embodiment of this invention in this figure two ultraviolet means are provided to make it possible to sterilize a pair of shoes at the same time the two first bases 13 are connected to second housing base 12 through flexible bellows like members 15 the second housing base 12 is substantially l shaped such that it can be placed on a horizontal surface referring to fig8 the heating element 3 is mounted on the portion of second housing base 12 at the internal side wall of hollow body 6 a flat horizontal partition 62 with a plurality of holes 63 is formed inside hollow body 6 thus separating the hollow space into two areas the ventilating means 4 is mounted on the flat partition 62 on the external wall of hollow body 6 a short distance below the flat partition 62 is a plurality of holes 64.