Texture applicator

An apparatus for the application of a fluent material to a surface, said apparatus comprising, in combination:

• an air pressure tank, inlet means on said pressure tank for filling said pressure tank from an external source of pressurized air, an outlet on said pressure tank for allowing pressurized air to be released therefrom;
• a removable manually actuatable pump means disposed within said pressure tank for manually filling said pressure tank;
• a supply tube attached to said outlet, said supply tube including a pressure regulator attached thereto for regulating the output pressure from the said pressure tank;
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• an applicator gun having an inlet containing an on-off valve attached to said supply tube, a discharge tube extending longitudinally of said gun and having at an end a depending portion including an abutment surface, the depending portion connected by a flexible tube to said inlet, said discharge tube having at another end a free distal end with a nozzle connected thereto, means for displacing said supply tube longitudinally of said gun, a removable tip received in a recess disposed in said gun and being maintained therein by spring clip means attached to said gun and for pressing against said tip, said tip having a discharge orifice removably and engagably attached to said gun, said nozzle having a frusto-conical outer surface and said orifice of the removable tip having a complementary frusto-conical inner surface for receiving said frusto-conical outer surface of said nozzle, fluent material discharge chamber surrounding a portion of said free end of said discharge tube and having an open top communicating with a covered hopper, and a threadedly disposed stop means threadedly engaging and extending through a near wall of the gun for stopping rearward displacement of said discharge tube by contact against said abutment surface at a predetermined location thereof and at its closed location providing an interlock against said abutment surface.