Abstract: A paint cup with at least two vertical compartments is disclosed with complimentary aspirator tubes extending upwardly therefrom and through the proximate center of a detachable lid and into a selector valve housing to which a conventional spray gun may be attached for selective application of different materials by merely changing the position of a triangular gate spool valve.

Abstract: A main body is provided having a fluid passage extending therethrough including inlet and outlet ends. The body further defines a branch passage having an outlet end portion opening outwardly of the body and an inlet end portion opening into an intermediate portion of the main fluid passage. The intermediate portion of the main fluid passage includes structure defining a valve seat therein and a valve body is mounted in the inlet end portion of the branch passage for adjustable positioning therealong and includes a main valve portion opposing the seat and operable to variably throttle the main flow passage upon shifting of the main valve portion toward and away from the seat. The valve body includes a flow passage formed therein having an inlet end opening through the main valve portion and communicating with the main fluid passage intermediate portion and an outlet end communicating with the outlet end portion of the branch passage.