Spray texturing apparatus and method

An apparatus for applying texture material to a wall or ceiling to match a pre-existing wall or ceiling texture pattern, comprising:

• a container for containing texture material and pressurized gas;
• a dispensing member mounted on the container, where the dispensing member defines a passageway and a nozzle opening and is movable relative to the container between a first position to prevent the pressurized gas from forcing the texture material through the passageway and out of the nozzle opening and a second position to allow the pressurized gas to force the texture material through the passageway and out of the nozzle opening;
• and
• dispensing tube means for defining an elongate discharge passageway, the dispensing tube means adapted to be mounted on the dispensing member such that texture material flowing out of the nozzle opening of the dispensing member flows through the discharge passageway;
• wherein
• the dispensing tube means has a plurality of dispensing configurations, a cross-sectional area of at least a dispensing portion of the dispensing passageway being different for each of the dispensing configurations, where each dispensing configuration corresponds to one of a plurality of spray texture patterns in which the texture material is deposited on the wall or ceiling:
• and
• one of the dispensing configurations is selected such that the texture material is deposited on the wall or ceiling in a selected one of the plurality of spray texture patterns that matches the pre-existing wall or ceiling texture pattern.