Vintage IV Stand & Glass Dripper

Vintage IV Stand & Glass Dripper

I know... a strange item to aquire. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to have it. My plan is to marry the stand with the antique ship lamp I have. Last image shows the initial lamp idea..obviously I'm going to shorten it, because it's very tall.

Information is a little confusing, so I asked kera for some extra help.

They stopped using glass IV bottles in the early 1970s. This one has the cool glass dripper still attached. The base says Tomec manufactured for American Hospital Supply Corp. Kera found Tomac had a trademark(The Native American image & name) patent filing in 1976. Several other earlier patents but that's the only one with image logo. Other than that, I have not found any information on the company? Under the American Hospital Supply Corp it says patent pending...not sure if that's for the design of the IV stand or for their name trademark logo..I Swore I saw the name trademark filing for 1971..but could be wrong and can't find that Information again. Seems every item I aquire has several rabbit holes involved!

"The American Hospital Supply Corporation grew from hospital supply distribution company and was incorporated in 1922 in Illinois by Foster G. McGaw. It came to dominate its industry in the 1930s and '40s by changing the way hospital supplies were marketed."

".Eventually distributing both its own supplies and those of other companies to 19 of 20 hospitals in America, the company manufactured a range of products from intravenous solutions to uniforms. Its sales grew from $65 million in 1956 to nearly $200 million by 1965, at which time it was based in Evanston and had 6,200 employees nationwide. By the early 1970s, the company employed 2,500 workers locally. American Hospital Supply's sales revenue grew from $2 billion in 1979 to more than $3.4 billion in 1984. The next year, competitor Baxter Travenol Laboratories, a firm whose supplies American Hospital once distributed, acquired the company. In 1995, Baxter spun off its low-tech hospital supply division as an independent company, called Allegiance Corp. Allegiance was subsequently purchased by Cardinal Health Inc. of Ohio in 1998"